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Also Known As Shu Sheyu • Shu Qingchun
Born February 3, 1899 • Beijing • China
Died August 24, 1966 (aged 67) • Beijing • China
Notable Works “Dragon Beard Ditch” • “Niu Tianci zhuan” • “Rickshaw”
Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Chinese author
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Chinese author and critic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author