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Also Known As Adolfo Correia da Rocha
Born August 12, 1907 • Portugal
Died January 17, 1995 (aged 87) • Coimbra • Portugal
Notable Works “Diário” • “Presença”
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Manuel Ferreira
Portuguese author
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Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Portuguese author
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
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José Régio
Portuguese author and critic
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt
American poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
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Janet Frame
New Zealand writer

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