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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
John Berger (1926-2017)
art historian, painter, journalist, poet, critic, opinion journalist, art critic
Pankaj Mishra (born 1969)
journalist, literary critic
Carmen MartΓn Gaite (1925-2000)
journalist, translator, essayist, poet, literary critic
Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)
playwright, journalist, dramaturge, essayist, art critic, literary critic, anarchist, theatre critic
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
journalist, essayist, playwright, literary critic, biographer
Georg LukΓ‘cs (1885-1971)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, literary critic, art historian, philosopher of culture, literary historian, literary scholar
Anthony Powell (1905-2000)
diarist, literary critic
