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Also Known As Ch’ien Chung-shu
Born November 21, 1910 • Wuxi • China
Died December 19, 1998 (aged 88) • Beijing • China
Notable Works “Fortress Besieged” • “Limited Views”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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James Joyce
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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
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
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Margaret Atwood
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Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
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Chinua Achebe
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Doris Lessing
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Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
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