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Born	November 21, 1866 • Stavanger • Norway
Died	July 29, 1900 (aged 33) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Movement / Style	Symbolism

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Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian dramatist and poet

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Arne Evensen Garborg

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Nordahl Grieg

Norwegian author

Jens Bjørneboe

Norwegian author

Tore Ørjasæter

Norwegian poet

Johan Nordahl Brun

Norwegian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Assia Djebar

Algerian writer and filmmaker

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Russian poet

Ivan Cankar

Slovene author

Mohammed Dib

Algerian author

Christian Morgenstern

German poet

Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

Samson Chanba

Abkhazian educator, poet, and dramatist

Ivan Vazov

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