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Born July 4, 1928 • near Brugge • Belgium
Died December 2, 2016 (aged 88) • Belgium
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Charles Plisnier
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Suzanne Lilar
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Belgian writer
Franz Hellens
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
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Arthur Young
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
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Martin Amis
Martin Amis
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Mary McCarthy
American novelist and critic
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
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Italo Calvino
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Jaime Torres Bodet
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Mongo Beti
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