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academics who wrote historical fiction
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948)

editing staff

  • University of Kent, University of London

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Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese (born 1955)

  • Madras Medical College, East Tennessee State University

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Cutting for Stone
My own country
The Body
The Tennis Partner (ARC)
Soundings
Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross (1920-2007)

translator, pedagogue, professor, poet lawyer, poet, politician

  • University of Tartu

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The czar's madman
Professor Martens' departure
The Ropewalker
Professor Martens' Departure
Between Three Plagues
The conspiracy & other stories
The Czar's madman
Der Verrückte des Zaren
Kolme katku vahel
Dans l'insaisissable. le roman de juri vilms
Kallid kaasteelised
Das Leben des Balthasar Rüssow
Le Fou Du Tzar
Professor Martens' Abreise
Sailing against the wind
Bibliograafia
Vastutuulelaev
Vahelugemised
The rock from the sky
Tahtamaa
Neli monoloogi Püha Jüri asjus
Söerikastaja
Taevakivi
Vihm teeb toredaid asju
RakvereskiÄ­ roman ; Ukhod professora Martensa
Imperatorskiĭ bezumet︠s︡
Keisri hull
Teosed
Czar S Madman
Voog ja kolmpii
Kamennye skripki
La Partida del Profesor Martens
Mesmeri ring
Lauljad laevavööridel
Paigallend
Väljakaevamised
Paigalend
Klio silma all
Kogutud teosed
Wikmani poisid
Kivist viiulid
Tabamatus
Na glazakh u Klio
Silmade avamise päev
Professor Martensi ärasõit
Omae luloolisus ja alltekst
Kolmandad mäed
Kamienie Z nieba
Vuelo estático
Book of Falsehoods Between Three Plagues Volume 3
Ķeizara trakais
Uppiniskaisuuden kronikka
Tammsaare
Professor Matensi arasoit
Kross. Üksikud head mehed
Polet na meste
CERCLE DE MESSMER - Roman - Traduit de L'estonien par Jacques Tricot
Day Eyes Were Opened
Rakvere romaan
Vier Monologe Anno Domini 1506
Le départ du professeur Martens
Trzy bicze czarnej smierci, czyli opowiesc o Baltazarze Russowie
Treading Air
Book of Falsehoods
People Without a Past
Matt Bondurant
Matt Bondurant (born 1971)

  • James Madison University

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The wettest county in the world
The third translation
THIRD TRANSLATION, THE
The night swimmer
The wettest county in the world
The third translation
Lawless
The Third Translation (Author's Autobiography)
Des hommes sans loi
Die ägyptische Inschrift
The night swimmer
La stèle maudite
The night swimmer
András Dugonics
András Dugonics (1740-1818)

playwright, mathematician

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Frits van Oostrom
Frits van Oostrom (born 1953)

Dutch language specialist

  • Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden

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Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey (born 1975)

environmentalist

  • Bath Spa University

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Janet Lewis
Janet Lewis (1899-1998)

librettist, poet

  • University of Chicago

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The invasion
The trial of Sören Qvist
The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron
The wife of Martin Guerre
The wife of Martin Guerre
The wife of Martin Guerre
Janet Lewis reading at Stanford
Poems, 1924-1944
The Indians in the woods