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Also Known As Buzurg Alavī
Born February 2, 1904 • Tehrān
Died February 18, 1997 (aged 93) • Berlin • Germany
Founder Tudeh Party
Notable Works “Her Eyes” • “Panjāh va seh nafar”
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
Muhammad ʿAli Jamalzadah
Iranian author
Sadeq Chubak
Iranian author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Arno Schmidt
German author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
American writer
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
American author
Böll, Heinrich
Heinrich Böll
German author
Uwe Johnson
German author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author