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Facts

Born February 3, 1735 • Poland
Died March 14, 1801 (aged 66) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Bajki i przypowieści” • “Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki”

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Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.
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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
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Adam Zagajewski
Polish writer
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
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Adam Ważyk
Polish author
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Polish poet
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Józef Wittlin
Polish author
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Mieczysław Jastrun
Polish author and poet
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Antoni Słonimski
Polish writer and translator
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Jerzy Putrament
Polish author and editor
Orkan, Władysław
Władysław Orkan
Polish writer
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Tadeusz Miciński
Polish writer
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
Scandinavian author
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Samuel Butler
English author [1612–1680]
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Abe Kōbō
Japanese author
Spanish poet Quevedo y Villegas
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas
Spanish writer
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
Paulding, James Kirke
James Kirke Paulding
American writer
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer

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