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Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)
biographer, poet, teacher, memoirist, linguist, lecturer
Patti Smith (born 1946)
poet, visual artist, human rights activist, guitarist, singer, composer, musician, drawer, photographer, performance artist, recording artist, rock singer, rock musician, film director
![[Trois]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13275964-M.jpg)
Russell Brand (born 1975)
actor, columnist, comedian, television presenter, film producer, radio personality, singer, poet, playwright, blogger, autobiographer, YouTuber, journalist, stand-up comedian, film actor, guitarist, television actor, television producer
Hervé Le Tellier (born 1957)
journalist, poet, literary critic, mathematician
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
poet, composer
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
poet, painter, haiku poet
Orhan Kemal (1914-1970)
poet
![El kızı; roman [yazan] Orhan Kemal](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7236645-M.jpg)
Clive James (1939-2019)
broadcaster, literary critic, poet, television presenter
