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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Literature & Poetry
25
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

เฆถเฆฐเงŽเฆšเฆจเงเฆฆเงเฆฐ เฆšเฆŸเงเฆŸเง‹เฆชเฆพเฆงเงเฆฏเฆพเฆฏเฆผ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1876 โ€“ 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
Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)
Literature & Poetry
40
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 995

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

้ญฏ่ฟ… (ๅ‘จๆจนไบบ)
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
25 September 1881 โ€“ 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
Literature & Poetry
27
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Munshi Premchand

เคฎเฅเค‚เคถเฅ€ เคชเฅเคฐเฅ‡เคฎเคšเค‚เคฆ (Dhanpat Rai Srivastava)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1880 โ€“ 1936 (56 years old)

Foremost pioneer of modern realist Hindi and Urdu literature (1880โ€“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
Federico del Sagrado Corazรณn de Jesรบs Garcรญa Lorca
Literature & Poetry
46
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 998

Federico del Sagrado Corazรณn de Jesรบs Garcรญa Lorca

Federico Garcรญa Lorca
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
5 June 1898 โ€“ 19 August 1936 (38 years old)

Preeminent Spanish poet and dramatist of the Generation of '27 whose Romancero gitano, theory of Duende, and searing tragediesโ€”Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Albaโ€”ended in his tragic murder by Nationalist fascists at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Alfacar (Granada, Andalusia), Spain
Abou el Kacem Chebbi
Literature & Poetry
25
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Abou el Kacem Chebbi

ุฃุจูˆ ุงู„ู‚ุงุณู… ุงู„ุดุงุจูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1909 โ€“ 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
Kenji Miyazawa
Literature & Poetry
27
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Kenji Miyazawa

ๅฎฎๆฒข่ณขๆฒป
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1896 โ€“ 1933 (37 years old)

Beloved Japanese poet, children's author, and agronomist (1896โ€“1933) whose magical realist masterpiece 'Night on the Galactic Railroad' and selfless poem 'Be Not Defeated by the Rain' (Ame ni mo Makezu) are cultural treasures.

Hanamaki (Iwate), Japan
Ahmed Shawqi
Literature & Poetry
29
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ahmed Shawqi

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุดูˆู‚ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1868 โ€“ 1932 (63 years old)

Egyptian literary titan crowned by delegations from across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets) in 1927, who revived classical Arabic poetic eloquence and pioneered verse drama.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt
Ahmad Shawqi
Literature & Poetry
37
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 950

Ahmad Shawqi

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุดูˆู‚ูŠ (ุฃู…ูŠุฑ ุงู„ุดุนุฑุงุก)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
16 October 1868 โ€“ 14 October 1932 (63 years old)

Venerated across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets), who spearheaded the neoclassical Arabic literary renaissance (Al-Nahda) and pioneered Arabic poetic drama in Cleopatra and Majnun Layla.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt
Hafez Ibrahim
Literature & Poetry
29
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hafez Ibrahim

ุญุงูุธ ุฅุจุฑุงู‡ูŠู…
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1872 โ€“ 1932 (60 years old)

Beloved Egyptian national poet known as 'The Poet of the Nile', whose resonant verses championed the Egyptian peasant, celebrated the Arabic language, and mourned the victims of the Denshawai massacre.

Cairo, Egypt
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Literature & Poetry
38
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 998

Gibran Khalil Gibran

ุฌุจุฑุงู† ุฎู„ูŠู„ ุฌุจุฑุงู†
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
6 January 1883 โ€“ 10 April 1931 (48 years old)

Lebanese-American mystic poet and artist whose prose-poetry masterwork The Prophet (1923)โ€”translated into over one hundred languagesโ€”ranks as the third best-selling poet in history after Shakespeare and Laozi.

New York City, United States
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