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Also Known As Louis Albert Johnson
Born September 27, 1924 • Wellington • New Zealand
Died November 1, 1988 (aged 64) • Winchester • England
Notable Works “Bread and a Pension” • “Coming and Going” • “Land Like a Lizard” • “New Worlds for Old” • “Onion” • “True Confessions of the Last Cannibal” • “Winter Apples”
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Allen Curnow
New Zealand author
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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C.K. Stead
New Zealand author
Portrait of British author Katherine Mansfield, 1914, showing her with short wavy hair and a light blouse, looking directly at the camera.
Katherine Mansfield
British author
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Alfred Domett
prime minister of New Zealand
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Keri Hulme
New Zealand author
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Janet Frame
New Zealand writer
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Maurice Shadbolt
New Zealand author
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Fleur Adcock
New Zealand poet
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
English poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author

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