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20th-century critics

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Aale TynniAuthor · BooksAale Maria Tynni-Haavio (3 October 1913 – 21 October 1997) was a Finnish poet and translator.
Adolfo Bioy CasaresPhotographer · PhotographyAdolfo Bioy Casares (aˈðolfo ˈβjoj kaˈsaɾes; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator.
Algis BudrysAuthor · BooksAlgirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor and critic.
Ango SakaguchiAuthor · BooksAngo Sakaguchi was a Japanese writer, who wrote short stories and novels and was an essayist. His real name was Heigo Sakaguchi.
Ben BelittAuthor · BooksBen Belitt (May 2, 1911 – August 17, 2003) was an American poet and translator. Besides writing poetry, he also translated several books of poetry by Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti, and…
Bernd Alois ZimmermannPerson · Music memorabiliaBernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German…
Claude RoyAuthor · BooksClaude Roy was a French journalist, poet, children's writer, french resistance fighter, novelist and critic (1915–1997).
Enrique KrauzeAuthor · BooksEnrique Krauze Kleinbort (born 16 September 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur.
Erik DavisPerson · Music memorabiliaErik Davis (born June 12, 1967) is an American writer, scholar, journalist and public speaker whose writings have ranged from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of…
Fríða ÍsbergAuthor · BooksFríða Ísberg (born 19 December 1992) is an Icelandic novelist, short story writer and poet. Ísberg's first book of poetry, Slitförin won the Icelandic Booksellers' Choice Award for Poetry.
Hiroki AzumaAuthor · BooksHiroki Azuma (born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher.
Homen BorgohainAuthor · BooksHomen Borgohain (7 December 1932 – 12 May 2021) was an Assamese author and journalist. He was awarded the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese language for his novel Pita Putra.
Houshang GolshiriAuthor · BooksIllustration — Golshiri in 1975
Humphrey CarpenterAuthor · BooksHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R.
Ilya KaminskyAuthor · BooksIlya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him…
Isaki LacuestaPerson · Film memorabiliaIsaki Lacuesta (born 28 November 1975) is a Spanish film director from Catalonia. His work includes documentary film, narrative film and video art.
Issa SambArtist · SculptureIssa Samb, also known as Joe Ouakam (31 December 1945 – 25 April 2017) was a Senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright and poet.
John BergerArtist · PaintingsJohn Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize.
Karamat Ali KaramatAuthor · BooksKaramat Ali Karamat (1936–2022) was an Indian Urdu poet, author, literary critic, and mathematician.
Karin BoyeAuthor · BooksKarin Maria Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist.
Karl KrolowAuthor · BooksKarl Krolow (11 March 1915 – 21 June 1999) was a German poet and translator. In 1956 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.
Kathleen RaineAuthor · BooksKathleen Jessie Raine (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was an English poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.
Kedarnath SinghAuthor · BooksKedarnath Singh (7 July 1934 – 19 March 2018) was an Indian poet who wrote in Hindi.[1] He was also an eminent critic and essayist.
Kenneth RexrothArtist · PaintingsKenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist.
Kenneth TynanPerson · Film memorabiliaKenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.
Les MurrayAuthor · BooksLeslie Allan Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic.
Luciano ChaillyPerson · Music memorabiliaLuciano Chailly (Ferrara, 19 January 1920 – Milan, 24 December 2002) was an Italian composer and arts administrator of French descent.
Malte PerssonAuthor · BooksMalte Persson (born 1976) is a Swedish author of novels and poetry and translator.
Mary HoffmanAuthor · BooksMary Lassiter Hoffman (born 1945) is a British writer and critic. She has had over 90 books published whose audiences range from children to adults.
Mary McCarthyAuthor · BooksMary McCarthy (disambiguation)
Matej BorAuthor · BooksIllustration — Matej Bor in the 1930s
Nina BerberovaAuthor · BooksNina Nikolayevna Berberova (26 July 1901 – 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels.
Nobuo NakagawaPerson · Film memorabiliaApril 18, 1905 – June 17, 1984 was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s.
Oles HoncharAuthor · BooksOleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar (Bilychenko [Біличе́нко]; 3 April 1918 – 14 July 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure.
Olof LagercrantzAuthor · BooksOlof Gustaf Hugo Lagercrantz (10 March 1911 – 23 July 2002) was a Swedish writer, critic, literary scholar (PhD 1951) and publicist (editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter 1960–1975).
Philip HobsbaumAuthor · BooksPhilip Dennis Hobsbaum (29 June 1932 – 28 June 2005) was a British teacher, poet and critic.
Philip LarkinAuthor · BooksPhilip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.
Pierre DaixPerson · Film memorabiliaPierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso.
Renzo RosselliniPerson · Music memorabiliaRenzo Rossellini (2 February 1908 – 13 May 1982) was an Italian composer, music critic, and music educator.
Roemer van ToornPhotographer · PhotographyRoemer van Toorn, born 1960 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a Dutch architectural theorist, professor, writer, lecturer and photographer.
Shaheen MeraliArtist · Paintings1982 B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art (Sculpture), Gwent College of Further Education, Wales
Srečko KosovelAuthor · BooksSrečko Kosovel (18 March 1904 – 27 May 1926) was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets.
Susie BrightPerson · Film memorabiliaSusannah Bright (born March 25, 1958) is an American feminist, author and journalist, often writing on the subject of politics and sexuality.
Thomas McEvilleyAuthor · BooksThomas McEvilley (July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar.
V. S. PritchettAuthor · BooksSir Victor Sawdon Pritchett FRSL (also known as VSP; 16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997) was a British writer and literary critic.
Víctor Rodríguez NúñezAuthor · BooksVíctor Rodríguez Núñez (born in Havana, 1955) is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.
William MonahanPerson · Film memorabiliaWriters Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2007)
Yukio MishimaAuthor · BooksKimitake Hiraoka (平岡公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story…

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