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Also Known As	Grace Emily Akinyi
Born	May 15, 1930 • Kenya
Died	March 18, 2015 (aged 84) • Nairobi • Kenya
Notable Works	“Land Without Thunder” • “The Island of Tears” • “The Other Woman” • “The Promised Land”

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Kenyan writer

John Banim

Irish author

Michael Banim

Irish author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

James Joyce

Irish author

Joseph Conrad

British writer

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Henry James

American writer

Thomas Hardy

British writer

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Roald Dahl

British author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

H.G. Wells

British author

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Graham Greene

British author

J.R.R. Tolkien

English author

Arthur C. Clarke

British author and scientist

Salman Rushdie

British-American writer