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Born October 23, 1901 • Iceland
Died November 20, 1983 (aged 82) • Reykjavík • Iceland
Notable Works “Islandsk kjærlighet”
Gudmundur G. Hagalín
Icelandic writer
Sigurdur Jóhannesson Nordal
Icelandic philologist and writer
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Icelandic author
Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran
Icelandic author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
American writer and cultural critic
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
American author
Janet Frame
New Zealand writer
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer