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Born February 9, 1931 or February 10, 1931 • Netherlands
Died February 12, 1989 • Gmunden • Austria
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Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Arthur Schnitzler
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Elfriede Jelinek
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer
Vicki Baum
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Ilse Aichinger
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Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer
Ferdinand Kürnberger
Austrian writer
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie, baroness von
Marie, baroness von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Anzengruber, Ludwig
Ludwig Anzengruber
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Frank Sargeson
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Kenyan writer
Witi Ihimaera
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