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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
🇭🇷 Croatia
1874-04-18 – 1938-09-21 (64 years old)

Beloved children's author hailed as the 'Croatian Andersen', author of 'Croatian Tales of Long Ago' (Priče iz davnine) and 'The Brave Adventures of Lapitch', four times nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Zagreb, Croatia
Sir Muhammad Iqbal
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal

علامہ محمد اقبال (Mufakkir-e-Pakistan)
🇵🇰 Pakistan
1877 – 1938 (60 years old)

Renowned philosopher, barrister, and poet (1877–1938), revered as 'Allama Iqbal' and 'The Poet of the East', whose visionary poetry in Persian and Urdu inspired selfhood (Khudi) and the Pakistan Movement.

Lahore (Punjab), Pakistan
Cesar Vallejo
Literature & Poetry
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Cesar Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza
🇵🇪 Peru
1892 – 1938 (46 years old)

Peruvian poet and writer widely considered one of the greatest poetic innovators of the twentieth century, author of the revolutionary avant-garde collection Trilce.

Paris, France
Leopoldo Lugones
Literature & Poetry
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Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Antonio Lugones
🇦🇷 Argentina
1874-06-13 – 1938-02-18 (63 years old)

Colossal figure of Argentine Modernism who authored visionary short stories in Las fuerzas extrañas, established Martín Fierro as national epic in El Payador, and whose birthday is celebrated as Argentine Writer's Day.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Literature & Poetry
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
🇮🇳 India
1876 – 1938 (61 years old)

Bengali novelist and short story writer whose works, including Devdas, Pather Dabi, and Charitraheen, made him the most widely translated and popular Indian fiction writer of the twentieth century.

Kolkata, India
Yeghishe Charents
Literature & Poetry
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Yeghishe Charents

Եղիշե Չարենց
🇦🇲 Historical Armenia
1897-03-13 – 1937-11-27 (40 years old)

Revolutionary avant-garde poet and national martyr whose immortal hymn 'I Love My Sweet Armenia' and radical modernist verse captured the volcanic spirit of twentieth-century Armenian literature.

Yerevan, Armenia
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Yordan Yovkov

Йордан Йовков
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
1880-11-09 – 1937-10-15 (56 years old)

Revered humanist writer whose luminous short stories ('Legends of Stara Planina', 'Evenings at the Antimovo Inn', 'The White Swallow') celebrated moral goodness, forgiveness, and the golden wheatfields of Dobruja.

Sofia, Bulgaria
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Literature & Poetry
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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo
🇲🇬 Madagascar
1901-03-04 – 1937-06-22 (36 years old)

Considered the first modern poet of Africa and Madagascar, whose masterpiece collections 'Traduit de la nuit' and 'Presque-Songes' blended French symbolism with traditional Malagasy Hain-teny.

Antananarivo, Madagascar
Horacio Quiroga
Literature & Poetry
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Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza
🇺🇾 Uruguay
1878 – 1937 (58 years old)

Uruguayan-Argentine short story writer regarded as the master of the Latin American gothic tale, whose Stories of Love, Madness and Death captured the lethal perils of the Misiones jungle.

Salto, Uruguay
Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)
Literature & Poetry
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Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

魯迅 (周樹人)
🇨🇳 China
25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936 (55 years old)

Revered as the foundational father of modern Chinese literature whose revolutionary vernacular stories A Madman's Diary (1918) and The True Story of Ah Q spearheaded the May Fourth cultural revolution, fiercely attacking feudal hypocrisy.

Shanghai, China
Munshi Premchand
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Munshi Premchand

मुंशी प्रेमचंद (Dhanpat Rai Srivastava)
🇮🇳 India
1880 – 1936 (56 years old)

Foremost pioneer of modern realist Hindi and Urdu literature (1880–1936), honored as 'Upanyas Samrat' (Emperor of Novels), who wrote 'Godaan', 'Kafan', and hundreds of stories exposing social injustice and rural poverty.

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), India
Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus
🇦🇹 Historical Austria
1874-04-28 – 1936-06-12 (62 years old)

Feared satirical genius and moral critic who published the uncompromising journal 'Die Fackel' ('The Torch') and wrote 'The Last Days of Mankind', the monumental anti-war drama of World War I.

Vienna, Austria
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Literature & Poetry
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa
🇵🇹 Portugal
13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935 (47 years old)

Enigmatic Portuguese modernist genius who fractured his identity into over seventy distinct literary alter-egos ('heteronyms'—Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares) and authored the sublime existential diary The Book of Disquiet.

Lisbon, Portugal
Abou el Kacem Chebbi
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Abou el Kacem Chebbi

أبو القاسم الشابي
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1909 – 1934 (25 years old)

Immortal national poet of Tunisia whose fiery romantic and revolutionary verses in 'The Will of Life' (Iradat al-Hayat) and 'To the Tyrants of the World' inspired generations of Arab anti-colonial struggles and the 2011 Arab Spring.

Tozeur, Tunisia
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