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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
political activist, Judaic scholar, autobiographer, translator, journalist, humanist, philosopher, playwright
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
journalist, playwright, publisher, poet lawyer, autobiographer, opinion journalist
- National University of Colombia
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter
- University of Cambridge, Yale University
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
politician, playwright, drawer, librettist, essayist, illustrator, poet, art historian, opinion journalist, graphic artist
- University of Paris, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
journalist, satirist, playwright
- Medical faculty of Moscow University
Slavoj Žižek (born 1949)
philosopher, psychologist, cultural studies scholar, sociologist, essayist, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, politician, theologian, opinion journalist, actor
- Bežigrad Grammar School, University of Ljubljana