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Adeline Virginia Woolf (nรฉe Stephen)
Literature & Poetry
36
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 995

Adeline Virginia Woolf (nรฉe Stephen)

Virginia Woolf
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
25 January 1882 โ€“ 28 March 1821 (59 years old)

Foremost British modernist novelist and pioneering feminist essayist whose stream-of-consciousness triumphs Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, alongside her rallying manifesto A Room of One's Own ('five hundred a year and a room of her own'), reshaped 20th-century consciousness.

River Ouse (near Rodmell, Sussex), Great Britain
Taneda Santoka
Literature & Poetry
31
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Taneda Santoka

็จฎ็”ฐๅฑฑ้ ญ็ซ (Taneda Shoichi)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1882 โ€“ 1940 (57 years old)

Twentieth-century free-verse haiku poet and Zen mendicant monk (1882โ€“1940) whose unconventional, unrhymed poems distilled the solitude of walking, begging bowls, flowing waters, and sake into spontaneous spiritual art.

Matsuyama (Ehime), Japan
Mikhail Bulgakov
Literature & Poetry
33
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mikhail Bulgakov

ะœะธั…ะฐะธะป ะั„ะฐะฝะฐััŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะ‘ัƒะปะณะฐะบะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Russia
1891 โ€“ 1940 (48 years old)

Master Soviet novelist and playwright whose satirical masterpiece The Master and Margarita brought Satan and a talking cat to 1930s Moscow.

Moscow, Russia
Isaac Babel
Literature & Poetry
35
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Isaac Babel

ะ˜ัะฐะฐะบ ะญะผะผะฐะฝัƒะธะปะพะฒะธั‡ ะ‘ะฐะฑะตะปัŒ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Russia
1894 โ€“ 1940 (45 years old)

Peerless Russian-Jewish master of the short story whose Red Cavalry and Odessa Tales brought vivid brutality and poetic lyricism to world literature.

Moscow, Russia
Literature & Poetry
0
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Ercilia Pepรญn

Ercilia Pepรญn Estrella
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด Dominican Republic
1884-12-07 โ€“ 1939-06-14 (54 years old)

Trailblazing educator and feminist who became school principal at age twenty, introduced school uniforms and women's physical education, and led fierce civic protests against the 1916โ€“1924 United States military occupation.

Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
William Butler Yeats
Literature & Poetry
40
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 985

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland
13 June 1865 โ€“ 28 January 1939 (73 years old)

Supreme Irish lyric poet and 1923 Nobel laureate who spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival, co-founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory, and chronicled the turbulent birth of modern Ireland in Easter, 1916 and The Second Coming.

Menton (French Riviera), France
Osip Mandelstam
Literature & Poetry
39
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Osip Mandelstam

ะžัะธะฟ ะญะผะธะปัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะœะฐะฝะดะตะปัŒัˆั‚ะฐะผ
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Russia
1891 โ€“ 1938 (47 years old)

Foremost Russian Acmeist poet and martyr whose collections Stone and Tristia, and fatal 'Stalin Epigram', made him an eternal symbol of artistic integrity.

Vladivostok, Russia
Karel ฤŒapek
Literature & Poetry
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Karel ฤŒapek

Karel ฤŒapek
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Kingdom of Bohemia
1890-01-09 โ€“ 1938-12-25 (48 years old)

Visionary playwright and humanist author whose 1920 play 'R.U.R.' introduced the word 'robot' to world vocabulary, and whose masterpieces 'War with the Newts' and 'The Mother' warned humanity against totalitarianism.

Prague, Czech Republic
Migjeni
Literature & Poetry
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Migjeni

Millosh Gjergj Nikolla
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Albania
1911-10-13 โ€“ 1938-11-30 (27 years old)

Iconoclastic revolutionary poet and schoolteacher who shattered traditional Romanticism with his free-verse collection Vargjet e lira (Free Verse), depicting poverty, disease, and social anger.

Tirana, Albania
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