French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French artist.
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42rd President of Colombia 2022–2026
Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego is a Colombian politician and economist who served as the 35th president of Colombia from 2022 to 2026.
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French writer (1850-1893)
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessim
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English writer (1866–1946)
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres.
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American writer and editor (1890–1937)
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
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English adventure novelist (1856–1925)
H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre.
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Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389)
Hafez
Khajeh Shams-od-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, also known by his pen name Hafez, was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature.
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Icelandic author (1902-1998)
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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