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Also Known As	Charles Edgar du Perron
Born	November 2, 1899 • Indonesia
Died	May 14, 1940 (aged 40) • Netherlands
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Frederik Willem van Eeden

Dutch author and physician

Menno ter Braak

Dutch critic

Lodewijk van Deyssel

Dutch author

Samuel Johnson

English author

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author

Maurice Baring

British author

Cees Nooteboom

Dutch author

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter

Dutch author

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Edmund Wilson

American critic

Ishmael Reed

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