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Born October 29, 1924
Died July 28, 1998 (aged 73) • Warsaw • Poland
Notable Works “Barbarian in the Garden”

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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
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Adam Zagajewski
Polish writer
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Polish poet
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Adam Ważyk
Polish author
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Polish poet
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Józef Wittlin
Polish author
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Mieczysław Jastrun
Polish author and poet
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Jerzy Putrament
Polish author and editor
Naruszewicz, Adam
Adam Naruszewicz
Polish bishop and historian
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Samuel Twardowski
Polish author
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
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
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Andrew Motion
British poet and author

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