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Born January 13, 1931 • Nigeria
Died October 16, 1993 (aged 62) • Enugu • Nigeria
Notable Works “Efuru”
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Amos Tutuola
Nigerian author
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author
Novelist Ben Okri
Ben Okri
Nigerian writer
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie smiling, wearing a black top and long braids styled in a top bun, at the Economic Forum of Cernobbio in Italy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian author
Okara, Gabriel
Gabriel Okara
Nigerian author
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Kole Omotoso
Nigerian novelist
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Cyprian Ekwensi
Nigerian author
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Concha Espina de Serna
Spanish author
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John Banim
Irish author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer

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