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Kobina Sekyi

Kobina Sekyi
🇬🇭 Ghana
1892-11-01 – 1956-01-01 (63 years old)

Celebrated Ghanaian lawyer, satirist, and philosopher who wrote the iconic 1915 satirical comedy 'The Blinkards' and served as president of the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society.

Cape Coast, Ghana
Paul Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann
🇩🇪 Germany
6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955 (80 years old)

German literary patrician and 1929 Nobel laureate whose monumental novels—Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain—dissected European bourgeois decadence and who broadcast fearless anti-Nazi speeches across wartime Germany.

Zurich, Switzerland
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Paul Claudel

Paul Louis Charles Marie Claudel
🇫🇷 France
1868 – 1955 (86 years old)

Monumental French Catholic poet and dramatist who served as French ambassador to Tokyo and Washington, author of the sweeping Renaissance drama Le Soulier de satin and L'Annonce faite à Marie.

Brangues (Isère), France
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Saadat Hasan Manto

سعادت حسن منٹو
🇮🇳 India
1912 – 1955 (42 years old)

Iconic Urdu short-story writer and essayist (1912–1955), author of 'Toba Tek Singh', 'Khol Do', and 'Thanda Gosht', renowned for his raw, courageous, and deeply compassionate portrayals of the human tragedy of Partition.

Lahore (Punjab), Pakistan
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Frans G. Bengtsson

Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
🇸🇪 Sweden
1894-10-04 – 1954-12-19 (60 years old)

Brilliant Swedish essayist and novelist whose epic two-volume Viking saga 'The Long Ships' (Röde Orm) is celebrated worldwide as the definitive literary adventure of Norse seafaring.

Gullspång, Sweden
Chedly Khaznadar
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Chedly Khaznadar

الشاذلي خزندار
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1881 – 1954 (73 years old)

Celebrated as the 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (Prince of Poets) of Tunisia, he was the master of classical neoclassical Arabic verse who used courtly panegyric to deliver subtle anti-colonial patriotic messages.

Tunis, Tunisia
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Stig Dagerman

Stig Halvard Dagerman
🇸🇪 Sweden
1923-10-05 – 1954-11-04 (31 years old)

Prodigious Swedish writer and journalist whose post-war reportage 'German Autumn' (1947) and novels 'A Burnt Child' and 'The Island of the Doomed' captured existential post-war angst.

Älvkarleby, Sweden
Ivan Bunin
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Ivan Bunin

Иван Алексеевич Бунин
🇷🇺 Russia
1870 – 1953 (83 years old)

First Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933), renowned for his classical prose style in The Gentleman from San Francisco and Dark Avenues.

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Paris), France
Graciliano Ramos
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Graciliano Ramos

Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira
🇧🇷 Brazil
1892 – 1953 (60 years old)

Brazilian novelist of the 1930s Regionalist Movement, whose stark masterpiece Barren Lives captured the devastating droughts and social injustice suffered by migrants in the northeastern sertao.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Paul Éluard

Eugène Émile Paul Grindel
🇫🇷 France
1895 – 1952 (56 years old)

Beloved French Surrealist lyric poet whose sublime wartime poem 'Liberté' (1942) was parachuted by Royal Air Force planes in thousands of copies over occupied France, becoming the sacred hymn of the Resistance.

Paris, France
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Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

محمدتقی بهار / ملک‌الشعراء
🇮🇷 Iran
6 November 1886 – 22 April 1951 (64 years old)

Revered 'Poet Laureate' of the Persian Constitutional Revolution, Member of Parliament, and scholar whose 'Sabk-Shenasi' founded Persian stylistic studies.

Tehran, Iran
Sadegh Hedayat
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Sadegh Hedayat

صادق هدایت
🇮🇷 Iran
1903 – 1951 (48 years old)

Iranian author universally recognized as the father of modern Persian prose fiction, whose surrealist psychological masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most translated Iranian literary work in history.

Paris, France
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