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ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād
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Born June 28, 1889 • Aswān • Egypt
Died March 12, 1964 (aged 74) • Cairo • Egypt
Subjects Of Study Arabic literature
Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Egyptian author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Théophile Gautier
French author
Ameen Rihani
Arab American author and political figure
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Lezama Lima, José
José Lezama Lima
Cuban author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Robert Graves
British writer
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Severo Sarduy
Cuban writer
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Adonis
Adonis
Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Baren
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