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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
translator, librarian, literary critic, poet, opinion journalist, essayist
- Collège Calvin
L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000)
military officer, historian, essayist, literary critic, journalist
- California Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
- Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
essayist, autobiographer, social critic, diarist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
playwright, historian, literary critic, teacher, poet, opinion journalist
- Imperial St. Petersburg University
Bruce Sterling (born 1954)
blogger, journalist, futurist, literary critic, literary scholar
- Art Center College of Design, University of Texas at Austin
José Saramago (1922-2010)
journalist, playwright, translator, poet, chronicler, essayist, diarist, literary critic, dramaturge, revolutionary