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Also Known As Johan Collet Müller Borgen
Born April 28, 1902 • Norway
Died October 16, 1979 (aged 77) • Norway
Notable Works “Lillelord”
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Nordahl Grieg
Norwegian author
Kielland, Alexander Lange
Alexander Lange Kielland
Norwegian writer
Jens Bjørneboe
Norwegian author
Dag Solstad
Norwegian writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist