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Aale TynniAuthor · BooksAale Maria Tynni-Haavio (3 October 1913 – 21 October 1997) was a Finnish poet and translator.
Abdul Majid DaryabadiAuthor · BooksAbdul Majid Daryabadi (16 March 1892 – 6 January 1977) was an influential Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, critic, researcher, journalist, and Quranic exegete active in the Indian…
Adolfo Bioy CasaresPhotographer · PhotographyAdolfo Bioy Casares (aˈðolfo ˈβjoj kaˈsaɾes; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator.
Adolphe AdamPerson · Music memorabiliaAdolphe Charles Adam (24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic.
Albert GiraudAuthor · BooksAlbert Giraud (lang; 23 June 1860 – 26 December 1929) was a Belgian poet who wrote in French.
Albert VerweyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Albert Verwey
Alfred JarryAuthor · BooksAlfred Jarry (French: [alfʁɛd ʒaʁi]; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the…
Algis BudrysAuthor · BooksAlgirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor and critic.
Allen TateAuthor · BooksJohn Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and poet laureate from 1943 to 1944.
Andrei PlatonovAuthor · BooksAndrei Platonovich Platonov (ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəvʲɪtɕ plɐˈtonəf; Klimentov [Климе́нтов];
Andrej SládkovičAuthor · BooksAndrej Sládkovič (born as Andrej Braxatoris, pseudonyms Andrej Braxatoris-Sládkovič, Andrej Sládkovič, Ondřej Krasislav Sládkovič;
Andrejs UpītsAuthor · BooksAndrejs Upīts (4 December 1877 – 17 November 1970) was a Latvian teacher, poet and short story writer.
Ango SakaguchiAuthor · BooksAngo Sakaguchi was a Japanese writer, who wrote short stories and novels and was an essayist. His real name was Heigo Sakaguchi.
Anton MahničAuthor · BooksAnton Mahnič, also spelled Antun Mahnić in Croatian orthography (14 September 1850 – 30 December 1920), was a Croatian-Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church and a philosopher who…
August VermeylenAuthor · BooksIllustration — August Vermeylen
Bayard TaylorAuthor · BooksBayard Taylor (January 11, 1825December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat.
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…
Bo BergmanAuthor · BooksBo Hjalmar Bergman (6 October 1869 – 17 November 1967) was a Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy, sitting in Seat 12 from 1925 until his death.
Carl Joachim HambroAuthor · BooksCarl Joachim Hambro (5 January 1885 – 15 December 1964) was a Norwegian journalist, author and leading politician representing the Conservative Party.
Catherine SlessorDesigner · DesignCatherine Slessor is an architecture writer, critic and former editor of The Architectural Review, and a contributor to the Guardian, Dezeen and Architects' Journal.
Charles PerraultAuthor · BooksCharles Perrault (USalso, lang; 12 January 162816 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française.
Claude RoyAuthor · BooksClaude Roy was a French journalist, poet, children's writer, french resistance fighter, novelist and critic (1915–1997).
David FrischmannAuthor · BooksDavid ben Saul Frischmann (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֵּן שָׁאוּל פְרִישְׁמַן, 31 December 1859 – 4 August 1922) was a Hebrew and Yiddish modernist writer, poet and translator.
Edmond Aman-JeanEngraver · PrintsEdmond Aman-Jean (13 November 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.
Edmond de GoncourtAuthor · BooksEdmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (pron; 26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
Edward Joseph DentPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — Dent at King's College, Cambridge, 1900
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…
Ernst LissauerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Ernst Lissauer c.
Fleeming JenkinAuthor · BooksHenry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE (25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was a British engineer, inventor, economist, linguist, actor and dramatist known as the inventor of the cable car or…
Francisque SarceyAuthor · BooksIllustration — Francisque Sarcey
Franjo MarkovićAuthor · BooksIllustration — Marković drawn by Mayerhofer, 1884
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.
Fritz Reck-MalleczewenAuthor · BooksFriedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen (11 August 1884 – February 1945) was a German author.
Fukuzawa YukichiAuthor · Books
Gabriel MarcelAuthor · BooksGabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist.
Georges LafenestreAuthor · BooksGeorges Lafenestre (5 May 1837, Orléans - 19 May 1919, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French poet, art critic and art historian.
Henri de RégnierAuthor · BooksHenri-François-Joseph de Régnier (28 December 1864 – 23 May 1936) was a French symbolist poet, considered one of the most important of France during the early 20th century.
Herbert Edward ReadAuthor · BooksSir Herbert Edward Read, (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included…
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…
Iris BarryAuthor · BooksIris Barry (1895 – 22 December 1969) was a British-American film critic and curator.
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.
Jan NerudaAuthor · BooksJan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech: [[Help:IPA for Czech|[ˈjan ˈnɛpomuk ˈnɛruda]]]; 10 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic;
Jaroslav DurychAuthor · BooksJaroslav Durych (2 December 1886 – 7 April 1962) was a Czech prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and military surgeon.
Jean-François de La HarpeAuthor · BooksJean-François de La Harpe (20 November 1739 – 11 February 1803) was a French playwright, writer and literary critic.
Joel LehtonenAuthor · BooksJoel Lehtonen (27 November 1881 – 20 November 1934) was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist. He was born in Sääminki (now part of Savonlinna).
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.
Josephin SoularyArtist · PaintingsJoséphin (Joseph Marie) Soulary (23 February 1815 - 28 March 1891), French poet, son of a Lyon merchant of Genoese origin (Solari).
Józef KofflerPerson · Music memorabiliaHe was the first Polish composer living before the Second World War to apply the twelve-tone composition tec
Jules JaninAuthor · BooksJules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic.
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.
Kedra MitreiAuthor · BooksKedra Mitrei (Dmitrij Ivanovich Korepanov – Кедра Митрей, Дмитрий Ива́нович Коре́панов) was an Udmurt writer, poet, publicist, critic and translator.
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.
Kurt HillerAuthor · BooksKurt Hiller (17 August 1885, Berlin – 1 October 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, and expressionist poet. He was also a political (namely pacifist) journalist.
Lajos HevesiAuthor · BooksLőwy Hevesi Lajos, or Ludwig Hevesi (December 20, 1843, Heves, Hungary – February 17, 1910, Vienna) was a Hungarian journalist 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.
Lucjan SiemieńskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Lucjan Siemieński. Portrait by Maksymilian Fajans
Luigi Ferdinando CasamorataPerson · Music memorabiliaLuigi Ferdinando Casamorata (15 May 1807 – 24 September 1881) was an Italian composer and music critic.
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
Maurycy MochnackiAuthor · BooksMaurycy Mochnacki (13 September 1803 in Bojaniec near Żółkiew – 20 December 1834 in Auxerre) was a Polish literary, theatre and music critic, publicist, journalist, pianist, historian and…
Maximilian HardenAuthor · BooksMaximilian Harden (born Felix Ernst Witkowski, 20 October 1861 – 30 October 1927) was an influential German journalist and editor.
Mykola KostomarovAuthor · BooksMykola Ivanovych Kostomarov (– 19 April 1885) or Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov was one of the most distinguished Russian–Ukrainian historians, one of the first anti-Normanists, and the…
Nikolay KaramzinAuthor · BooksNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (3 June) was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.
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).
Paul DukasPerson · Music memorabiliaPaul Abraham Dukas (lang 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.
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.
Renato SimoniPerson · Film memorabiliaIllustration — Renato Simoni and Emma Gramatica, 1930 ca.
Renzo RosselliniPerson · Music memorabiliaRenzo Rossellini (2 February 1908 – 13 May 1982) was an Italian composer, music critic, and music educator.
Richard von SchaukalAuthor · BooksIllustration — Richard von Schaukal, 1924
Roemer van ToornPhotographer · PhotographyRoemer van Toorn, born 1960 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a Dutch architectural theorist, professor, writer, lecturer and photographer.
Roman JakobsonAuthor · BooksRoman Osipovich Jakobson (born Roman Iosel-Berovich Yakobson; 10 October [O.S. 28 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAuthor · BooksSamuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of…
Shaheen MeraliArtist · Paintings1982 B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art (Sculpture), Gwent College of Further Education, Wales
Siegfried JacobsohnAuthor · BooksSiegfried Jacobsohn (28 January 1881–3 December 1926) was a German journalist, editor and theatre critic.
Srečko KosovelAuthor · BooksSrečko Kosovel (18 March 1904 – 27 May 1926) was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets.
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'Author · BooksSuryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' is established in FAST under 74043.
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.
Theodor HerzlAuthor · BooksTheodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism.
Thomas McEvilleyAuthor · BooksThomas McEvilley (July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar.
Tom KristensenAuthor · BooksTom Kristensen (1893 08 04 – 1974 06 02), was a Danish poet, novelist, literary critic and journalist.
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.
Vera BulichAuthor · BooksVera Sergeyevna Bulich (1898–1954) was a poet, prose writer and critic born in the Russian Empire who lived most of her life in Finland.
Victor de LapradeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Victor de Laprade
Víctor Rodríguez NúñezAuthor · BooksVíctor Rodríguez Núñez (born in Havana, 1955) is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.
Victorin de JoncièresPerson · Music memorabiliaFélix-Ludger Rossignol (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903), known as Victorin de Joncières (viktɔʁɛ̃ də ʒɔ̃sjɛʁ), was a French composer and music critic.
Vissarion BelinskyAuthor · BooksVissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (Russian: Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский; June 11 [O.S. May 30] 1811 – June 7 [O.S. May 26] 1848) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency.
Waldo FrankAuthor · BooksWaldo David Frank (August 25, 1889 – January 9, 1967) was an American novelist, historian, political activist, and literary critic, who wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New…
Wilhelm WorringerAuthor · BooksWilhelm Robert Worringer (13 January 1881 in Aachen – 29 March 1965 in Munich) was a German art-historian known for his theories about abstract art and its relation to avant-garde movements…
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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