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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Patrick McGrath (born 1950)
literary scholar
Philippe Sollers (1936-2023)
philosopher, publisher, essayist, director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, literary theorist
Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, literary critic, art historian, philosopher of culture, literary historian, literary scholar
Antal Szerb (1901-1945)
translator, poet, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar
David Diop (born 1966)
literary scholar, docent, man of letters
Valery Bryusov (1873-1924)
poet, translator, literary critic, literary historian, philosopher, playwright, historian, literary scholar
