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Also Known As Kemal Sadik Gogceli • Yashar Kemal
Born October 6, 1923? • Turkey
Died February 28, 2015 • Istanbul • Turkey
Notable Works “Memed, My Hawk”
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Argentine novelist, journalist, and educator
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
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Ernesto Sábato, 1985.
Ernesto Sábato
Argentine writer
Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
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A.S. Byatt
British scholar, literary critic, and novelist
George Saunders
George Saunders
American author
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon
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Donald Davidson
American author
Ziya Gökalp
Turkish author
Kemal, Namik
Namık Kemal
Turkish author and social reformer
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
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Esther Forbes
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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