Milan Kundera

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Born	April 1, 1929 • Brno • Czechoslovakia
Died	July 11, 2023 (aged 94) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” • “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

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Graham Greene

British author

Karel Čapek, 1938.

Karel Čapek

Czech writer

Klíma, Ivan

Ivan Klíma

Czech author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Cankar, Ivan

Ivan Cankar

Slovene author

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