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Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
James Joyce (1882-1941)
poet, teacher, journalist, literary critic
- University College Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
Graham Greene (1904-1991)
playwright, journalist, autobiographer, spy
- University of Oxford, Berkhamsted School
Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
journalist, playwright, publisher, poet lawyer, autobiographer, opinion journalist
- National University of Colombia
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)
journalist, film producer, playwright
- University of Oxford, Accrington and Rossendale College
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942)
cartoonist, essayist, literary critic, journalist
- University at Buffalo, City College of New York
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
historian, playwright, poet, public figure, opinion journalist, school teacher, military personnel, militant, full member of RAS, teacher
- Rostov State University
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
philosopher, journalist, essayist, playwright, French resistance fighter, poet, association football player, opinion journalist
- Algiers 1 University