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Born 1942 (age 84) • Uganda
Notable Works “Kanti Rita” • “Kookolem” • “Malak: An African Political Poem”
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John Banim
Irish author
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Okot p’Bitek
Ugandan author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
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Anna Seward
English poet, literary critic, and intellectual
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author

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