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Paul Hazoumé
Literature & Poetry
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Paul Hazoumé

Paul Hazoume
🇧🇯 Benin
1890-04-16 – 1980-04-18 (90 years old)

Eminent Beninese author and ethnologist who wrote 'Doguicimi' (1938), the monumental historical novel of the Kingdom of Dahomey crowned by the Académie Française.

Porto-Novo, Benin
Camara Laye
Literature & Poetry
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Camara Laye

Camara Laye
🇬🇳 Guinea
1928 – 1980 (52 years old)

Guinean novelist author of The African Child (L'Enfant noir) and The Radiance of the King (Le Regard du roi), pioneering classics of 20th-century Francophone African literature.

Dakar, Senegal
Literature & Poetry
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Najati Sidqi

نجاتي صدقي
🇵🇸 Palestine
15 May 1905 – 17 November 1979 (74 years old)

Prominent 20th-century Palestinian intellectual, pioneering short story writer, and anti-fascist theorist who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

Athens, Greece
Mika Waltari
Literature & Poetry
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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari
🇫🇮 Finland
1908-09-19 – 1979-08-26 (70 years old)

Foremost 20th-century Finnish author whose sweeping historical novel Sinuhe egyptiläinen (The Egyptian, 1945) became an international literary phenomenon and Hollywood blockbuster.

Helsinki, Finland
Louis Paul Boon
Literature & Poetry
3
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Louis Paul Boon

Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon
🇧🇪 Belgium
1912 – 1979 (67 years old)

Towering twentieth-century Flemish novelist and social rebel whose monumental modernist masterpiece De Kapellekensbaan (Chapel Road, 1953) revolutionized the novel with multivocal narrative and working-class solidarity.

Aalst (East Flanders), Belgium
Victoria Ocampo
Literature & Poetry
1
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Victoria Ocampo

Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo
🇦🇷 Argentina
1890-04-07 – 1979-01-27 (88 years old)

Colossal cultural patron, essayist, and feminist who founded the legendary literary magazine Sur in 1931, bridging Latin American literature with world modernism and hosting Tagore and Camus at Villa Ocampo.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Malek Haddad
Literature & Poetry
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Malek Haddad

مالك حداد
🇩🇿 Algeria
1927 – 1978 (50 years old)

Lyrical Algerian poet and novelist who famously declared 'The French language is my exile' and voluntarily ceased publishing fiction after independence until Arabic achieved its rightful cultural restoration.

Algiers, Algeria
Jorge Icaza
Literature & Poetry
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Jorge Icaza

Jorge Icaza Coronel
🇪🇨 Ecuador
1906-07-10 – 1978-05-26 (71 years old)

Foremost indigenist novelist of Latin America whose explosive 1934 masterpiece 'Huasipungo' shocked the world with its raw, unflinching depiction of the feudal exploitation and dispossession of indigenous Andean peasants.

Quito, Ecuador
Harry Martinson
Literature & Poetry
3
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Harry Martinson

Harry Edmund Martinson
🇸🇪 Sweden
1904-05-06 – 1978-02-11 (73 years old)

Poet and author awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature, celebrated for his autobiographical novels and his visionary 1956 science fiction verse epic 'Aniara'.

Sollentuna, Sweden
Skender Kulenović
Literature & Poetry
1
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Skender Kulenović

Скендер Куленовић
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1910-09-02 – 1978-01-25 (67 years old)

Monumental 20th-century Bosnian poet and partisan whose searing 1942 epic lament 'Stojanka majka Knežopoljka' and sonnets are immortal masterpieces of Yugoslav war poetry.

Belgrade, Serbia
Clarice Lispector
Literature & Poetry
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Clarice Lispector

Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector
🇺🇦 Ukraine
1920 – 1977 (56 years old)

Visionary Brazilian modernist and mystical innovator whose stream-of-consciousness masterpieces The Passion According to G.H. and The Hour of the Star redefined modern prose.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Moufdi Zakaria
Literature & Poetry
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Moufdi Zakaria

مفدي زكرياء (زكرياء بن سليمان)
🇩🇿 Algeria
1908 – 1977 (69 years old)

Immortal Poet of the Algerian Revolution whose blazing neoclassical verses written on prison walls in Barberousse, including the national anthem Qassaman and The Holy March, defined national liberation.

Beni Isguen (Ghardaïa), Algeria
Mufdi Zakariah
Literature & Poetry
33
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Mufdi Zakariah

مفدي زكرياء
🇩🇿 Algeria
1908 – 1977 (69 years old)

Algerian Mozabite Amazigh poet acclaimed as the 'Poet of the Algerian Revolution', who penned the words of the Algerian national anthem 'Kassaman' with his own blood on the walls of Barberousse Prison in 1955.

Ghardaïa, Algeria
Literature & Poetry
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Jacques Prévert

Jacques André Marie Prévert
🇫🇷 France
1900 – 1977 (77 years old)

Beloved French popular poet and screenwriter whose 1946 collection Paroles sold millions of copies, who wrote the immortal lyrics to Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles mortes), and penned the screenplay for Children of Paradise.

Omonville-la-Petite (Manche), France
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