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Joseph Brodsky

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 7

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Julio Cortázar

writer

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Louise Glück

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 7

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Mario Vargas Llosa

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 5

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Naguib Mahfouz

Arabic-language novelist and short-story writer

Complete Number 8

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Nawal El Saadawi

writer, physician, and activist

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Patrick White

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 1

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Salvatore Quasimodo

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 3

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Samuel Beckett

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 6

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Satyajit Ray

Bengali filmmaker, director, screenwriter, composer, illustrator, and writer

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Saul Bellow

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

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Simone de Beauvoir

French writer, philosopher, public intellectual, and activist

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Tomas Tranströmer

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

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Toni Morrison

novelist, editor, and university professor

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Ursula K. Le Guin

author

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V. S. Naipaul

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

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William Golding

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Complete Number 4

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