Albanian writer (1936–2024)
Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright.
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Greek rhetorician and writer (436–338 BC)
Isocrates
Isocrates was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators.
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Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer.
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Russian marine painter (1817–1900)
Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art.
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Russian writer and poet (1870–1953)
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer.
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Ukrainian poet and writer (1856–1916)
Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.
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Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov, and The Precipice.
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Russian writer (1769–1844)
Ivan Krylov
Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors.
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Russian writer (1818–1883)
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
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