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Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius

Lithuanian author

Vasile Alecsandri

Romanian author

S. Adeboye Babalola

Nigerian poet and scholar

John Pepper Clark

Nigerian author

S. Ansky

Russian writer

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Angolan scholar

Óscar Ribas

Portuguese-Angolan folklorist

Tiyo Soga

South African author

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

Sadeq Hedayat

Iranian author

Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

Birago Diop

Senegalese author

Elias Lönnrot

Finnish folklorist

Anders Sørensen Vedel

Danish historian