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Also Known As Kikuchi Hiroshi
Born December 26, 1888 • Takamatsu • Japan
Died March 6, 1948 (aged 59) • Tokyo • Japan
Founder “Bungei shunjū”
Mishima Yukio
Mishima Yukio
Japanese author
Abe Kōbō
Japanese author
Ariyoshi Sawako
Japanese author
Masamune Hakuchō.
Masamune Hakuchō
Japanese author
Mushanokōji Saneatsu.
Mushanokōji Saneatsu
Japanese writer and painter
Kume Masao
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
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Witi Ihimaera
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
Jerzy Andrzejewski
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Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma
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Davies, Robertson
Robertson Davies
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
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