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Jaroslav Seifert
Literature & Poetry
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Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert
🇨🇿 Kingdom of Bohemia
1901-09-23 – 1986-01-10 (84 years old)

Beloved lyric poet of Prague and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1984) who championed artistic freedom, co-founded Poetism, and signed Charter 77 in defiance of totalitarian censorship.

Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
Juan Rulfo
Literature & Poetry
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Juan Rulfo

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno
🇲🇽 Mexico
1917 – 1986 (68 years old)

Mexican author whose sparse output of one novel, Pedro Paramo, and one short-story collection, The Burning Plain, stands among the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world literature.

Mexico City, Mexico
Alex La Guma
Literature & Poetry
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Alex La Guma

Justin Alexander La Guma
🇿🇦 South Africa
1925-02-20 – 1985-10-11 (60 years old)

Master realist novelist and anti-apartheid leader whose works 'A Walk in the Night' and 'In the Fog of the Seasons' End' captured the brutal social reality of South Africa.

Havana, Cuba
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Literature & Poetry
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

فیض احمد فیض
🇵🇰 Pakistan
1911 – 1984 (73 years old)

Celebrated 20th-century progressive Urdu poet (1911–1984), awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize, whose lyrical verse melded classical ghazal romanticism with passionate advocacy for human rights and democracy.

Lahore (Punjab), Pakistan
Henri Michaux
Literature & Poetry
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Henri Michaux

Henri Michaux
🇧🇪 Belgium
1899 – 1984 (85 years old)

Enigmatic Belgian-born French poet and painter who explored the inner labyrinth of the human subconscious in Un barbare en Asie, created the absurdist character Plume, and pioneered psychological mescaline drawings.

Paris, France
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António Aurélio Gonçalves

António Aurélio Gonçalves
🇨🇻 Cape Verde
1901-09-25 – 1984-09-30 (83 years old)

Preeminent Cape Verdean novelist, critic, and historian affectionately known as 'Nhô Roque', whose subtle psychological novellas ('Prisâo de Amor', 'Noite de Vento') captured the soul of Mindelo.

Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Uladzimir Karatkievic
Literature & Poetry
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Uladzimir Karatkievic

Уладзімір Караткевіч
🇧🇾 Belarus
1930-11-26 – 1984-07-25 (53 years old)

Beloved historical novelist and romantic whose thrilling gothic mystery 'King Stakh's Wild Hunt' and epic 'The Ears of Rye Under Thy Sickle' revitalized interest in Belarusian grand history.

Minsk, Belarus
Abdul Hai Habibi
Literature & Poetry
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Abdul Hai Habibi

عبدالحی حبيبي
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
1910-01-01 – 1984-05-09 (74 years old)

Distinguished Afghan scholar and historian revered as Allama Habibi who authored over one hundred books on Central Asian history and edited ancient manuscripts including Pata Khazana.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Branko Ćopić
Literature & Poetry
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Branko Ćopić

Бранко Ћопић
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1915-01-01 – 1984-03-26 (69 years old)

Universally cherished Bosnian storyteller and satirist whose tender humor and masterpieces ('Bašta sljezove boje', 'Doživljaji Nikoletine Bursaća') brought warmth to generations of readers.

Belgrade, Serbia
Baalu Girma
Literature & Poetry
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Baalu Girma

Baalu Girma
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
1939-09-22 – 1984-02-14 (44 years old)

Fearless Ethiopian investigative novelist and journalist whose 1983 masterwork 'Oromay' exposed the corruption and failures of the Red Star Campaign, leading to his assassination by the Derg.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Julio Cortázar
Literature & Poetry
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Julio Cortázar

Julio Florencio Cortázar
🇧🇪 Belgium
1914-08-26 – 1984-02-12 (69 years old)

Giant of the Latin American Literary Boom and master of the fantastical short story whose counter-novel Rayuela (Hopscotch, 1963) and stories like Axolotl and Blow-Up transformed contemporary world fiction.

Paris, France
Bechir Khraief
Literature & Poetry
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Bechir Khraief

البشير خريف
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1917 – 1983 (66 years old)

Pioneering Tunisian novelist and educator acclaimed as the 'Father of the Modern Tunisian Novel', who daringly introduced spoken vernacular dialogue into literature in his masterwork 'Degla fi Arajiniha' (Dates on their Bunches).

Tunis, Tunisia
Literature & Poetry
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Yves Thériault

Yves Thériault
🇨🇦 Canada
1915 – 1983 (67 years old)

One of Canada's most widely translated novelists whose 1958 Arctic masterpiece Agaguk brought Inuit culture and survival into world literature, published in millions of copies across twenty languages.

Rawdon (Quebec), Canada
Musine Kokalari
Literature & Poetry
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Musine Kokalari

Musine Kokalari
🇹🇷 Turkey
1917-02-10 – 1983-08-14 (66 years old)

First female published author in Albanian history who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1943, survived thirty-seven years of communist prison and internal exile, and died an unbroken martyr.

Rrëshen, Albania
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