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Christine de Pizan (1364-1430)
poet, translator, philosopher
Giovanni Boccaccio (1312-1375)
poet, diplomat, translator, biographer, mythographer
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
poet, diarist, biographer, journalist, teacher
- Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University
August Derleth (1909-1971)
anthologist, poet, editor, publisher, biographer
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
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
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand