Kateb Yacine: Quick Facts

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Born	August 6, 1929 • Constantine • Algeria
Died	October 28, 1989 (aged 60) • Grenoble
Notable Works	“L’Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc” • “Nedjma”

Assia Djebar wearing a wide-brimmed blue hat, gold necklace, white blouse, and red jacket, looking at the camera with a slight smile.

Assia Djebar

Algerian writer and filmmaker

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Mohammed Dib

Algerian author

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Henri Kréa

Algerian-French author

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Emmanuel Roblès

Algerian-French author

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Mouloud Mammeri

Algerian author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Jean Cocteau, 1939.

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan French author

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Romains

Jules Romains

French author

Hébert, Anne

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot

Paul Scarron

French author

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

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Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

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Bernard Binlin Dadié

Ivorian author

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Henry Bauchau

Belgian author

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René Philombe

Cameroonian author

Catulle Mendès.

Catulle Mendès

French author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form