Profiles — Writers
Novelists, poets and journalists, and the books and stories that made their names.
Brazilian politician (1763–1838)
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire.
Read biography ↗Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995)
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist.
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Neal Leon Cassady was an American writer who was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s.
Read biography ↗Sámi writer, musician and artist (1943–2001)
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, known as Áilu in the Northern Sámi language and with the stage name of Áillohaš, was a Finnish Sámi writer, musician and artist.
Read biography ↗Polish pianist, composer and poet (1836–1878)
Władysław Tarnowski, also known by his pen name Ernest Buława, was a Polish pianist, composer, poet, dramatist, and translator.
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Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist, playwright and screenwriter.
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