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Also Known As Gérald Félix Tchicaya
Born August 25, 1931 • Republic of the Congo
Died April 21, 1988 or April 22, 1988 • Oise
Movement / Style Negritude • Surrealism
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
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Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
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Jules Supervielle
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French 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
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer

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