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Also Known As Vladimír Vašek
Born September 15, 1867 • Opava • Silesia
Died February 17, 1958 (aged 90) • Olomouc
Notable Works “Slezské písně”
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Miroslav Holub
Czech poet, pathologist and immunologist
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
Seifert, 1984
Jaroslav Seifert
Czech author
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Karel Hynek Mácha
Czech poet
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Otakar Březina
Czech poet
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
Czech writer
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
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
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Senegalese Pres. Léopold Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961
Léopold Senghor
president of Senegal
Enid Blyton, 1962
Enid Blyton
British author
August Wilson, 2003
August Wilson
American dramatist
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
American author
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Robert Bly
American author
American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher Charlotte Perkins Gilman, c. 1900
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer
José Martí
José Martí
Cuban patriot
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet

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