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Born November 28, 1881 • Vienna
Found Dead February 23, 1942 • Petrópolis • Brazil
Notable Works “Beware of Pity” • “Master Builders” • “The Tide of Fortune” • “Three Masters”
Ilse Aichinger
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Arno Schmidt
German author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Uwe Johnson
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Louis Auchincloss (centre) with Pres. George W. Bush and Laura Bush after receiving the National Medal of Arts, 2005.
Louis Auchincloss
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Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
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Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
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Carl Spitteler
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Nick Joaquin
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Max Brod
German-language novelist and essayist
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Gert Hofmann
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Sigurdur Jóhannesson Nordal
Icelandic philologist and writer
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
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V.S. Pritchett
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Stuart Cloete
South African writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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