Andréas Karkavítsas

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Born	1866 • Greece
Died	October 10, 1922 (aged 56) • Greece

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Níkos Kazantzákis

Greek writer

Yórgos Theotokás

Greek author

Violet Martin

Irish writer

Edith Somerville

Irish writer

Junot Díaz

Dominican-born American writer

Concha Espina de Serna

Spanish author

Anzia Yezierska

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Albert Halper

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Émile Erckmann

French author

Michael Banim

Irish author

Louis-Alexandre Chatrian

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John Banim

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Mark Twain

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Voltaire

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Leo Tolstoy

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D.H. Lawrence

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