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Born November 2, 1902 • Hungary
Died April 14, 1983 (aged 80) • Budapest • Hungary
Notable Works “People of the Puszta”
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Mihály Vörösmarty, detail of a steel engraving by C.A. Schwerdgeburth, after a drawing by Miklós Barabás.
Mihály Vörösmarty
Hungarian writer
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Béla Balázs
Hungarian writer
János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.
János, Count Mailáth
Hungarian author
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Ferenc Herczeg
Hungarian writer
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
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Lajos Kassák
Hungarian writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
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René Schickele
German writer
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
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Klaus Rifbjerg
Danish writer
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
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Péter Nádas
Hungarian author
János Arany
János Arany
Hungarian poet

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