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Born December 31, 1928 • Finland
Died June 21, 2015 (aged 86) • Helsinki • Finland
Notable Works “Everstin autonkuljettaja” • “The Manila Rope” • “Private Jokinen’s Marriage Leave”
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Paavo Haavikko
Finnish author
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Aleksis Kivi
Finnish author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
Amiri Baraka
American writer
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russian poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Marya Mannes
American author and critic
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
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Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Holtei, Karl von
Karl von Holtei
German author

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