Elechi Amadi

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Born	May 12, 1934 • Nigeria
Died	June 29, 2016 (aged 82) • Port Harcourt • Nigeria
Notable Works	“Isiburu” • “Sunset in Biafra” • “The Concubine” • “The Great Ponds” • “The Slave”

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Wole Soyinka

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Kole Omotoso

Nigerian novelist

D.H. Lawrence

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Oscar Wilde

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George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Robertson Davies

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Nick Joaquin

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Robin Maugham

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John Pepper Clark

Nigerian author

James Ene Henshaw

Nigerian playwright

Mary Hayley Bell

British author and actress

Charles Dickens

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Voltaire

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James Joyce

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Samuel Beckett

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Henry James

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Henry Fielding

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Vladimir Nabokov

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