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Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
film critic, poet, literary critic, literary historian, film scholar, linguist, literary scholar, critic, essayist
Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
cultural historian, historian, resistance fighter, linguist, philosopher, art historian, anthropologist
Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
linguist, poet, journalist, translator, playwright, literary critic, typographer
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)
biographer, poet, teacher, memoirist, linguist, lecturer
Amos Oz (1939-2018)
linguist, journalist, translator, essayist, pedagogue, poet
Stuart Christie (1946-2020)
linguist, translator, autobiographer, anarchist, politician, publisher
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1878-1945)
physicist, chemist, biologist, explorer, anthropologist, linguist, cartographer, journalist, geologist, biochemist, mineralogist
