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Born March 27, 1889 • Cairo • Egypt
Died December 13, 1974 (aged 85) • Ankara • Turkey
Notable Works “Hüküm gecesi” • “Sodom ve Gomore” • “Yaban”
Kemal, Namik
Namık Kemal
Turkish author and social reformer
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Necati Cumalı
Turkish author
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Reșat Nuri Güntekin
Turkish writer
Abasıyanık, Sait Faik
Sait Faik Abasıyanık
Turkish author
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John Banim
Irish author
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Concha Espina de Serna
Spanish author
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
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English 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
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
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Tillie Olsen
American author
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author

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