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20th-century playwrights

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Wu ZuguangPerson · Film memorabilia
Xavier VillaurrutiaAuthor · BooksXavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas…
Yacine KatebAuthor · BooksKateb Yacine (2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber…
Yang JiangAuthor · Books
Yasmina RezaPerson · Film memorabiliaYasmina Reza (lang; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and God of Carnage.
Yehonatan GeffenAuthor · BooksYehonatan Geffen (22 February 1947 – 19 April 2023), also known as Yonatan Gefen, was an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, satirist and playwright.
Yehuda AmichaiAuthor · BooksYehuda Amichai (born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times.
Yeremey ParnovAuthor · BooksYeremey Iudovich Parnov (20 October 1935 – 18 March 2009) was a Soviet and Russian-Jewish writer and publicist. Parnov attended the Moscow Peat University and worked as a chemical engineer.
Yoko TawadaAuthor · BooksYōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.
Yūji SakamotoPerson · Film memorabilia
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…
Yuri MamleevAuthor · BooksYuri Vitalyevich Mamleev, also Mamleyev or Mamleiev (11 December 1931 – 25 October 2015), was a prominent Russian novelist who began writing in the 1960s and won the Pushkin Prize in 2000.
Zakes MdaArtist · SculptureZanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda (born 6 October 1948) is a South African novelist, poet and playwright.
Zbigniew HerbertAuthor · BooksZbigniew Herbert (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈxɛrbɛrt]; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.
Zdeněk JirotkaAuthor · BooksZdeněk Jirotka (7 January 1911 – 12 April 2003) was a Czechoslovak writer of radio-broadcast plays and author of humorous novels, short stories, and feuilletons.
Zdeněk SvěrákAuthor · BooksZdeněk Svěrák (born 28 March 1936) is a Czech actor, humorist, playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most well-known and popular Czech cultural personalities.
Zoe Lister-JonesPerson · Film memorabiliaZoe Lister-Jones (born September 1, 1982) is an American actress and filmmaker who co-starred as Jen Collins Short in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces from 2015 to 2019.
Zoi KareliAuthor · BooksZoé Karelli was the pen-name used by Chryssoulas Argyriadou (1901–1998), a Greek poet, playwright and essayist.
Zoran StefanovićArtist · Comics and comic artZoran Stefanović (Зоран Стефановић, born 21 November 1969 in Loznica) is a Serbian author, publisher and cultural activist, best known as the founder of several cultural networks, including…
Zygmunt HübnerPerson · Film memorabiliaZygmunt Hübner (23 March 1930 – 12 January 1989) was a Polish actor, stage director, and director of the National Old Theatre in Kraków (1963–69).

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