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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
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935)
journalist, biographer, politician, painter, poet, historian
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
playwright, translator, poet, painter, literary critic
- University of Nottingham, University of London
Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
journalist, painter, librettist, playwright, poet, comics artist, opinion journalist
- University of Milan
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Berlin University of the Arts
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887)
translator, historian, playwright, journalist, poet, painter, opinion journalist, drawer, collector, literary critic, national revival activist
- Vilnius University
Karolina Pavlova (1807-1893)
poet, salonnière, translator, painter
Mari Yamazaki (born 1967)
mangaka, illustrator, painter, professor, radio personality
- Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Colégio Dante Alighieri