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Also Known As Nelly Leonie Sachs
Born December 10, 1891 • Berlin • Germany
Died May 12, 1970 (aged 78) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1966)
Notable Works “Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel” • “O the Chimneys”

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Nelly Sachs, 1966
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William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
West Indian poet
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British dramatist
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian author
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born writer
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Austrian author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
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German author
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Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist

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