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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
playwright, poet, essayist, translator, critic, stage actor, film actor, film director, theatrical director, model, political activist, civil servant
- Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
Gioconda Belli (born 1948)
poet, journalist, diarist, activist
Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015)
plastic artist, performance artist, LGBTQ rights activist
- Instituto PedagĆ³gico, Liceo Manuel Barros BorgoƱo
VƔclav Havel (1936-2011)
playwright, politician, director, poet, film director, human rights activist, dissident, essayist, philosopher, opinion journalist
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Dominique Rolin (1913-2012)
autobiographer, women's rights activist
Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
activist, autobiographer, opinion journalist, journalist
- University of St Andrews
Carmen de Burgo (1867-1932)
journalist, translator, women's rights activist, editor, suffragist