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Also Known As Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler
Born February 7, 1944 (age 81) • New Zealand
Notable Works “Ask the Posts of the House” • “Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies” • “Dear Miss Mansfield: A Tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp” • “Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood” • “Native Son: The Writer’s Memoir” • “The New Net Goes Fishing” • “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” • “Pounamu, Pounamu” • “Sky Dancer” • “Tangi” • “The Dream Swimmer” • “The Little Kowhai Tree” • “The Matriarch” • “The Parihaka Woman” • “The Thrill of Falling” • “The Trowenna Sea” • “The Uncle’s Story” • “The Whale Rider” • “Whanau” • “Woman Far Walking”
Frank Sargeson
New Zealand writer
Patricia Grace
New Zealand writer
Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma
Czech author
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
British author
Maurice Gee
New Zealand author
Allen Curnow
New Zealand author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat

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