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Also Known As Wan Jiabao • Ts’ao Yü
Born September 24, 1910 • Tianjin • China
Died December 13, 1996 (aged 86) • Beijing • China
Political Affiliation Chinese Communist Party
Notable Works “Peking Man” • “Thunderstorm” • “Tuibian” • “Yuanye”
Gao Ming
Chinese author
Lao She
Chinese author
Tian Han
Chinese author
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Chinese author and critic
Xia Yan
Chinese author
Qi Rushan
Chinese writer
Xiong Foxi
Chinese playwright
Zhang Junxiang
Chinese playwright and director
Guan Hanqing
Chinese dramatist
Hong Shen
Chinese dramatist
Wang Shifu
Chinese dramatist
Liang Chenyu
Chinese dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer
Robert Lepage
Canadian writer, director, designer, and actor
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
Sir William Davenant
English writer
Kola Ogunmola
Nigerian dramatist