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Born 1917 • Portugal
Died March 17, 1992 (aged 75) • Portugal
Notable Works “No reino de Caliban”
Subjects Of Study Portuguese literature • poetry • Cabo Verde
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
José Régio
Portuguese author and critic
Miguel Torga
Portuguese poet and diarist
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
Luís Romano
Cabo Verdean author
Pedro António Correia Garção
Portuguese poet
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Portuguese 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
Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Albert Wendt
Samoan writer
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist