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Babrius

fabulist

Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva

Jean de La Fontaine

French poet

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Max Beerbohm

British humorist

Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.

Ignacy Krasicki

Polish poet

akutagawa ryunosuke

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

Japanese author

Aesop

Aesop

legendary Greek fabulist

Robert Henryson

Scottish author

Gellert, lithograph

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

German writer

Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich

Ivan Andreyevich Krylov

Russian author

Phaedrus

Roman fabulist

János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.

János, Count Mailáth

Hungarian author

Ade, George

George Ade

American playwright

Richard Garnett

English librarian

Rūdakī

Persian poet

Ulrich Boner

Swiss writer

Félix María Samaniego

Spanish poet