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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
playwright, epistemologist, biographer, literary critic, essayist, resistance fighter, philosopher, peace activist, opinion journalist, intellectual, sociologist, lyricist
- Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957)
journalist, poet, translator, philosopher, playwright, politician
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Ursulines School of Naxos
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960)
playwright, philosopher, translator, film director, actor
- École Normale Supérieure, lycée du Parc
Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
philosopher, essayist, environmentalist
- University of Edinburgh, University of New Mexico
Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803)
playwright, poet, actor, translator, stage actor, philosopher, art historian, aristocrat
Wole Soyinka (born 1934)
playwright, poet, translator, philosopher, essayist, professor
- University of Leeds, University of Ibadan