Menno ter Braak

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Born	January 26, 1902 • Netherlands
Died	May 14, 1940 (aged 38) • The Hague • Netherlands
Founder	Edgar du Perron • “Forum”
Notable Works	“Van oude en nieuwe Christenen”

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Edgar du Perron

Dutch writer and critic

Lodewijk van Deyssel

Dutch author

Frederik Willem van Eeden

Dutch author and physician

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter

Dutch author

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Samuel Johnson

English author

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

William Hazlitt

British writer

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

H.L. Mencken

American writer

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Leigh Hunt

British author

John Jay Chapman

American writer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Hu Feng

Chinese literary theorist

Azorín

Spanish literary critic

John Crowe Ransom

American poet and critic

Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky

Russian writer

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov

Russian author

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