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Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
philosopher, essayist, pedagogue, translator, semiotician, literary critic, medievalist, literary scholar, historian
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Michael Cox (1948-2009)
biographer, teacher, literary scholar, literary historian
Boris Akunin (born 1956)
translator, historian, playwright, literary scholar, public figure, editor-in-chief, japanologist, man of letters, literary critic
Bruce Sterling (born 1954)
blogger, journalist, futurist, literary critic, literary scholar
Ina Schabert (born 1940)
literary historian, scholar of English, literary scholar, man of letters
Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, literary critic, art historian, philosopher of culture, literary historian, literary scholar
