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Also Known As	Fatima-Zohra Imalayan • Fatma-Zohra Imalhayène
Born	August 4, 1936 • Iol • Algeria
Died	February 6, 2015 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Les Alouettes naïves” • “Les Impatients” • “Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” • “The Children of the New World”

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Mohammed Dib

Algerian author

Jean Cocteau, 1939.

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Kateb Yacine

Algerian author

Henri Kréa

Algerian-French author

Ben Elton

Ben Elton

British actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and dramatist

Marcel Paul Pagnol

French author and director

Marguerite Duras

French author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Romains

Jules Romains

French author

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

French author

Richepin, c. 1925

Jean Richepin

French author

Aicard, Jean

Jean Aicard

French poet

Emmanuel Roblès

Algerian-French author

Mouloud Mammeri

Algerian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Woody Allen

Woody Allen

American actor and director

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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