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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
David Malouf (born 1934)
poet, librettist, playwright
- University of Queensland, Brisbane Grammar School
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
- Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
playwright, physician, satirist, librettist, journalist, theatrical director, actor, surgeon, biographer
- Bogomolets National Medical University
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
poet, lyricist, politician, playwright, autobiographer, translator, military personnel, diarist, librettist, aristocrat, philhellene
- Harrow School, University of Cambridge
GĆ¼nter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
- Kunstakademie DĆ¼sseldorf, Berlin University of the Arts
Philippe Soupault (1897-1990)
journalist, poet, playwright, librettist, political activist, essayist, critic, radio personality, publisher, artist, drawer, actor, broadcast journalist
Tracy K. Smith (born 1972)
poet, librettist, editor, translator
- Harvard University, Columbia University