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Also Known As Cheng Chen-to
Born December 12, 1898 • Wenzhou • China
Died October 17, 1958 (aged 59) • Afghanistan? • China?
Subjects Of Study Chinese literature • vernacular
Zhu Yizun
Chinese scholar
Mao Dun
Chinese author
Ye Shengtao
Chinese author
Zhang Tianyi
Chinese author
Xu Zhimo
Chinese poet
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
David Remnick
David Remnick
American journalist
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
American writer
Peter Matthiessen
American author
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
Avrom Sutzkever
Israeli writer
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexican writer and statesman
Elio Vittorini
Italian author
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
Friedrich Nicolai, oil painting by A. Graff.
Friedrich Nicolai
German writer
Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer