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Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)
engineer, satirist, librettist, playwright, literary critic, opinion journalist
- Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute
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
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
poet, playwright, journalist, opinion journalist, essayist, fabulist, librettist
- University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
politician, playwright, drawer, librettist, essayist, illustrator, poet, art historian, opinion journalist, graphic artist
- University of Paris, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
poet, playwright, literary critic, translator, historian, librettist, book collector, opinion journalist, dramaturge, essayist, bretteur
- Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
Jacques-Antoine de Révérony Saint-Cyr (1767-1829)
librettist, playwright, military personnel, politician
Fernando Soto Aparicio (1933-2016)
poet, playwright, storyteller, librettist