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Also Known As Yankev Glatshteyn
Born August 20, 1896 • Lublin • Poland
Died November 19, 1971 (aged 75) • New York City • New York • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Notable Works essay • “Poezye”
Movement / Style Di Inzikhistn
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American poet and journalist
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
German columnist and television personality
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Karl Shapiro
American poet
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer

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