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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
Boris Akunin (born 1956)
translator, historian, playwright, literary scholar, public figure, editor-in-chief, japanologist, man of letters, literary critic
- MSU The Institute of Asian and African Studies
Charles R. Johnson (born 1948)
philosopher, literary scholar, man of letters
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Stony Brook University
Ina Schabert (born 1940)
literary historian, scholar of English, literary scholar, man of letters
David Diop (born 1966)
literary scholar, docent, man of letters
- Sorbonne University
André Brink (1935-2015)
linguist, translator, literary scholar, man of letters
- North-West University
Marie Visconti (born 1936)
literary scholar, man of letters