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Also Known As Stanczykówna
Born July 2, 1923 • near Poznań • Poland
Died February 1, 2012 (aged 88) • Kraków • Poland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1996)
Notable Works “Dlatego zyjemy” • “Wołanie do Yeti”
Movement / Style Socialist Realism

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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Reymont, Władysław Stanisław
Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polish author
Herbert, Zbigniew
Zbigniew Herbert
Polish author
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Polish poet
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Jerzy Putrament
Polish author and editor
Naruszewicz, Adam
Adam Naruszewicz
Polish bishop and historian
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
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
Irish author and poet
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author

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