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Born	September 15, 1977 (age 47) • Enugu • Nigeria
Notable Works	“Americanah” • “For Love of Biafra” • “Half of a Yellow Sun” • “Notes on Grief” • “Purple Hibiscus” • “The Thing Around Your Neck” • “We Should All Be Feminists”

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Elechi Amadi

Nigerian writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Kole Omotoso

Nigerian novelist

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

Henry James

Henry James

American writer

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

British author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Davies, Robertson

Robertson Davies

Canadian author

Vernon Lee

English essayist

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

Novelist Ben Okri

Ben Okri

Nigerian writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

British novelist

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Voltaire

French philosopher and author

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

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