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Born October 29, 1909 • Maputo • Mozambique
Died December 25, 1943 (aged 34) • Maputo • Mozambique
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José Craveirinha
East African writer
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Luís Bernardo Honwana
Mozambican author
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Jorge Rebelo
Mozambican poet, lawyer, and journalist
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Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
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Mário António
Angolan author
Nobre, António
António Nobre
Portuguese poet
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Shamsur Rahman
Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate
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
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
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões
Portuguese poet
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
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Gil Vicente
Portuguese dramatist
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James Fenton
British poet and journalist
Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío
Nicaraguan writer
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
Pessoa, Fernando
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet

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