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Born December 5, 1936 • Durban • South Africa • Natal
Died September 5, 2010 (aged 73) • Johannesburg • South Africa
Notable Works “Drum” • “Mating Birds” • “The Rhythm of Violence”
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Samuel Johnson
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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James Joyce
James Joyce
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Marya Mannes
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Nick Joaquin
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Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
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Henry James
Henry James
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
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Sir Richard Steele
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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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