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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
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Also Known As Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Born August 17, 1936 • Ethiopia
Died February 25, 2006 (aged 69) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Oda Oak Oracle”
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Robert Armin
English actor
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Nahum Tate
English writer
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
British author
Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Harley Granville-Barker
British author and producer
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
British author
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
Eduard Devrient
German actor
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Laurence Olivier in a scene from Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
British actor, director, writer, and producer
Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance
British actor and director

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