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20th-century philologists

51 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Äbdilda TäjibaevAuthor · BooksÄbdıldä Täjıbaiūly Täjıbaev (4 February 1909 – 1991) was a Kazakh writer, screenwriter, and playwright. He was named a People's Writer of the Kazakh SSR in 1985.
Agustín YáñezAuthor · Books
Alfredo BosiAuthor · BooksAlfredo Bosi (26 August 1936 – 7 April 2021) was a Brazilian historian, literary critic, and professor.
Alojz RebulaAuthor · BooksAlojz Rebula (June 21, 1924 – October 23, 2018) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy.
Anders OlssonAuthor · BooksAnders Olsson (born 19 June 1949) is a Swedish writer, professor of literature at Stockholm University, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy.
Antonio Núñez JiménezPhotographer · PhotographyAntonio Núñez Jiménez was a Cuban geographer, speleologist, archaeologist, scientist and revolutionary.
Antonio TabucchiAuthor · Books
Åse-Marie NesseAuthor · BooksÅse-Marie Nesse (29 April 1934 – 13 July 2001) was a Norwegian philologist, translator and poet.
Besim BokshiAuthor · BooksBesim Bokshi (12 November 1930 – 16 August 2014) was an Albanian poet, linguist and philologist. He served as the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo during 2008-2011.
Boris UspenskijArtist · PaintingsBoris Andreevich Uspenskij (born 1937, in Moscow) is a Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, and historian of culture.
Dmitry LikhachovAuthor · BooksDmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (also spelled Dmitrii Likhachev or Dmitry Likhachov; – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and an inmate of Gulag.
Edward BalcerzanAuthor · BooksEdward Balcerzan (born 13 October 1937) is a Polish literary critic, poet, prose writer, and translator.
Évelyne TrouillotAuthor · BooksÉvelyne Trouillot (born January 2, 1954) is a Haitian author, writing in French and Creole.
Fernanda PivanoAuthor · BooksIllustration — Fernanda Pivano in 2006
Geno PampaloniAuthor · BooksGeno Pampaloni (25 November 1918 – 17 January 2001) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor, and essayist.
Georgi GospodinovAuthor · BooksGeorgi Gospodinov Georgiev (born 7 January 1968) is a Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright.
Gerald GöttingAuthor · BooksGerald Götting (9 June 1923 – 19 May 2015) was a German politician and chairman of the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1966 until 1989.
Giorgi KekelidzeAuthor · BooksGiorgi Kekelidze (გიორგი კეკელიძე; born April 10, 1984) is a Georgian poet, essayist and the founder of the first Georgian digital library, lib.ge.
Gonzalo SantonjaAuthor · BooksGonzalo Santonja Gómez-Agero (born 12 October 1952) is a Spanish writer, politician, professor, and literary critic who, As of 2022 has served as Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Sport in…
Gregorio SalvadorAuthor · BooksGregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2020) was a Spanish linguist specialized in structural semantics.
Harry KemelmanAuthor · BooksHarry Kemelman (November 24, 1908 – December 15, 1996) was an American mystery writer and a professor of English. He was the creator of the fictitious religious sleuth Rabbi David Small.
Helen VendlerAuthor · BooksHelen Vendler (née Hennessy; April 30, 1933 – April 23, 2024) was an American academic, writer and literary critic.
Hovhannes ShirazAuthor · BooksHovhannes Shiraz (April 27, 1915 – March 14, 1984) was an Armenian poet.
Ion NegoițescuAuthor · BooksIon Negoiţescu (iˈon neɡo.iˈt͡sesku; also known as Nego; 10 August 1921 – 6 February 1993) was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist, one of the leading…
Ivonka SurviłaArtist · PaintingsIvonka Survilla (born Iwonka Szymaniec, 11 April 1936) is the President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, a Belarusian government in exile.
Jacques BorelAuthor · BooksJacques Borel (17 December 1925 in Paris – 25 September 2002) was a French author best known for his 1965 novel L'Adoration (translated into English as The Bond), which won the Prix…
Jean-François LyotardAuthor · BooksJean-François Lyotard (lang; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998)[5] was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.
Jiří KratochvilAuthor · BooksIllustration — Jiří Kratochvil (2017)
Jürgen GrafAuthor · BooksJürgen Graf (15 August 1951 – 14 January 2025) was a Swiss author, teacher and Holocaust denier.
Karl DedeciusAuthor · BooksKarl Dedecius (20 May 1921 in Łódź – 26 February 2016) - was a Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature.
Marc FumaroliAuthor · BooksMarc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture.
Massimiliano ChiamentiAuthor · BooksMassimiliano Chiamenti (Florence, 1967 - Bologna, 2011) was an Italian poet and philologist who lived in Bologna, and taught at the "Liceo delle Scienze Sociali Laura Bassi and the "Liceo…
Mikhail MatusovskyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Matusovsky in 1945
Mohammad MoinAuthor · BooksMohammad Moin (his surname could also be transliterated as Mo'in; 12 July 1914, in Rasht, Iran – 4 July 1971, in Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranian…
Mykola RiabchukAuthor · BooksMykola Riabchuk (born September 27, 1953) is a Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer.
Natividad BarrosoAuthor · BooksNatividad Barroso Garcia (born 1937) is a Venezuelan investigator of ethno-folklore, essayist and Venezuelan poet.
Olga SedakovaAuthor · BooksShe was born in Moscow.
Petre GruzinskyAuthor · BooksPetre Gruzinsky (პეტრე გრუზინსკი; 28 March 1920 – 13 August 1984) was a Georgian poet and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1979).
Pierre BecAuthor · BooksPierre Bec (lang; 11 December 1921 – 30 June 2014) was a French Occitan-language poet and linguist.
Pilar Molina LlorenteIllustrator · IllustrationPilar Molina Llorente (born 11 December 1943) is a Spanish children's literature writer.
Radoslav RochallyiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Sample of DNA Equation poetry, 2019, Poem title: Bisher
Ramon Solsona i SanchoAuthor · BooksRamon Solsona i Sancho (Barcelona, February 7, 1950) is a Catalan writer and publicist. He has a degree in Romance Philology and he is also a high school teacher on leave.
Rex WarnerAuthor · BooksReginald "Rex" Ernest Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator who is best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941). Warner was described by V. S.
Robert ElsieAuthor · BooksThe Highland Lute (Lahuta e Malcís): The Albanian National Epic.
Selena MillaresAuthor · BooksIllustration — Selena Millares
Sergey AverintsevAuthor · BooksSergey Sergeyevich Averintsev (December 10, 1937, in Moscow – February 21, 2004, in Vienna) was a Russian literary scholar, Byzantinist and Slavist.
Svava JakobsdóttirAuthor · Books
Volodymyr YanivAuthor · BooksVolodymyr-Mykhailo Osypovych Yaniv (21 November 1908 – 19 November 1991) was a Ukrainian nationalist activist, university professor, historian, psychologist, and poet.
W. G. SebaldPhotographer · PhotographyWinfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic.
Yolanda CastañoAuthor · BooksYolanda Castaño Pereira (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) is a Galician painter, literary critic and poet.
Zoë WicombAuthor · BooksZoë Charlotte Wicomb (23 November 1948 – 13 October 2025) was a South African author and academic who lived in the United Kingdom from the 1970s until her death.

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