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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, Nobel Prize winner, bookseller, pacifist, librettist
- Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Melvyn Bragg (born 1939)
journalist, television presenter, politician, biographer, librettist, historian
- University of Oxford, The Nelson Thomlinson School
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
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)
war correspondent, journalist, poet, librettist, designer, French foreign legionnaire
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
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
journalist, painter, librettist, playwright, poet, comics artist, opinion journalist
- University of Milan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
poet, politician, librettist, dramaturge, playwright
- Harrow School