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Also Known As Alexandre Biyidi-Awala • Eza Boto
Born June 30, 1932 • Mbalmayo • Cameroon
Died October 8, 2001 (aged 69) • Douala • Cameroon
Notable Works “Les Deux Mères de Guillaume Ismael Dzewatama, futur camionneur” • “Main Basse sur le Cameroun” • “Mission Accomplished” • “Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness” • “Remember Ruben” • “The Poor Christ of Bomba”
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward
American author
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand
Indian author
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Arthur Young
English writer
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
British author
Mary McCarthy
American novelist and critic
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
American humorist and essayist
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Italo Calvino
Italian author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexican writer and statesman
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
Russian author
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Davies, Robertson
Robertson Davies
Canadian author
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer