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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
Boris Akunin (born 1956)
translator, historian, playwright, literary scholar, public figure, editor-in-chief, japanologist, man of letters, literary critic
Charles R. Johnson (born 1948)
philosopher, literary scholar, man of letters
Ina Schabert (born 1940)
literary historian, scholar of English, literary scholar, man of letters
David Diop (born 1966)
literary scholar, docent, man of letters
André Brink (1935-2015)
linguist, translator, literary scholar, man of letters
Marie Visconti (born 1936)
literary scholar, man of letters