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Andrey Kurkov
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Andrey Kurkov

Ukrainian writer (born 1961)

Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan naturalized French writer

Arnaldur Indriðason
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Arnaldur Indriðason

Icelandic crime writer, former journalist and film critic

Lisa Randall
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Lisa Randall

American theoretical physicist

Yasmina Khadra
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Yasmina Khadra

Algerian writer (born 1955)

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Brian Panowich

Brian Panowich is an American author and journalist.

Imre Kertész
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Imre Kertész

Hungarian author (1929–2016)

Pope Alexander III
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Pope Alexander III

Head of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181

Mario Adorf
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Mario Adorf

German actor and writer (1930–2026)

Sebastian Fitzek
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Sebastian Fitzek

German writer and journalist

Maria Popova
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Maria Popova

Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and for the visual stylistics that accompany it.

Octave Mirbeau
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Octave Mirbeau

French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)

Maurice Maeterlinck
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Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Wolfram von Eschenbach

German knight, poet, and composer (died c. 1220)

Ilya Ehrenburg
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Ilya Ehrenburg

Soviet writer (1891–1967)

Comte de Lautréamont
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Comte de Lautréamont

Uruguayan-born French author (1846–1870)

Nestorius
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Nestorius

Archbishop of Constantinople from c. 428 to 431

Navid Kermani
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Navid Kermani

German writer and orientalist (born 1967)

Éric Zemmour
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Éric Zemmour

French politician and writer (born 1958)

Albert Camus
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Albert Camus

French philosopher and writer (1913–1960)

Boualem Sansal
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Boualem Sansal

French-Algerian author (born 1944)

Franck Ferrand
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Franck Ferrand

French writer and radio personality

Waleed Al-Husseini
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Waleed Al-Husseini

Palestinian essayist and writer

Ales Bialiatski
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Ales Bialiatski

Belarusian activist, Nobel laureate (born 1962)