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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
composer, librettist, conductor, essayist, theatrical director, autobiographer, poet, pianist, music critic, diarist
![Letters of Richard Wagner. Selected and edited by Wilhelm Altmann. Translated ... by M. M. Bozman. [With portraits.].](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6875234-M.jpg)
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)
engineer, satirist, librettist, playwright, literary critic, opinion journalist
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
playwright, film director, theatrical director, librettist, stage actor, film actor, director, actor
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
![[The Box : Tales from the Darkroom] [Author](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9079359-M.jpg)
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
playwright, librettist, journalist, literary critic, poet
Hugo Claus (1929-2008)
playwright, poet, film director, painter, translator, journalist, librettist, visual artist, director
Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958)
linguist, poet, playwright, translator, visual artist, opinion journalist, dramaturge, librettist
