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Born January 18, 1911 • Peru
Died November 28, 1969 (aged 58) • Lima • Peru • (Anniversary in 2 days)
Notable Works “Agua” • “El sexto” • “Yawar Fiesta”
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Peruvian novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Vallejo, César
César Vallejo
Peruvian poet
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Peruvian writer
Alegría, 1941
Ciro Alegría
Peruvian author
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Miguel Barnet
Cuban writer
La Farge, Oliver
Oliver La Farge
American author and anthropologist
Manuel Scorza
Peruvian author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
American writer and cultural critic
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader