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Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.

Ariano Suassuna ( June 16, 1927 July 23, 2014) was a Brazilian playwright and author.

Juan de Mariana, also known as Father Mariana (1536 17 February 1624), was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Scholastic, historian, and member of the Monarchomachs.

Albert Camus ( 7 November 1913 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher.

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and Greek professor and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( (Devanagari), (Nastaʿlīq) born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Spain on 24 October 1957) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.

Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction.

A letter by the writer and essayist Eugenio Lisboa, octogenarian, addressed to the prime minister and reproduced in the blog of Eduardo Pitta says

André Maurois ( born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog 26 July 1885 9 October 1967) was a French author.

He was born in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, but he has lived most of his life in Rio de Janeiro.

Juan José Saer (June 28, 1937June 11, 2005) was one of the most important Argentine novelists of the last fifty years.

Paulo Menotti Del Picchia (March 20, 1892 August 23, 1988) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter.

Adonias Aguiar Filho (November 27, 1915 August 2, 1990) was a writer and novelist from Bahia, Brazil, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi ( June 29, 1798 June 14, 1837) was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist.

And he referred me to this lovely quote from the Japanese Essays in Idleness from the 14th century, in which the essayist wrote, In everything, uniformity is undesirable.

Plutarch ( , Ploútarkhos , later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus () c. AD 46 AD 120), was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia .

Johan August Strindberg ( 22 January 1849 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

José Américo de Almeida (January 10, 1887, in Areia March 10, 1980, in João Pessoa) was a Brazilian writer, a politician, a lawyer and a teacher.

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born 29 April 1947), also known as Olavo de Carvalho, is a Brazilian astrologer and essayist whose interests include historical philosophy, the history of revolutionary movements, Kremlinology, the traditionalist school, comparative religion, psychology, and philosophical anthropology.

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period.

Lêdo Ivo (Maceió, 18 February 1924 Seville, 23 December 2012) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist.

Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga ( 24 February 1843 28 January 1924) was a Portuguese writer, playwright, politician and the leader of the Republican Provisional Government after the abdication of King Manuel II, as well as the second elected President of the First Portuguese Republic, after the resignation of President Manuel de Arriaga.

Literature also flourished with the talented examples of the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 1724) and the poet, essayist, and travel writer Matsuo Bashō (1644 94).

José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet and polemicist.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 18562 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co founder of the London School of Economics.

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 5 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher.

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( 15 July 1892 26 September 1940) was a German philosopher and cultural critic.

Jorge Mateus de Lima (April 23, 1893 in União dos Palmares November 15, 1953 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian politician, physician, poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, translator and painter.

Ferreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira (born September 10, 1930), a Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer.

Paul Yves Nizan ( 7 February 1905 23 May 1940) was a French philosopher and writer.

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Leslie and Julia had four children together Vanessa Stephen (1879), Thoby Stephen (1880), Virginia (1882), and Adrian Stephen (1883).

François Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire ( ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.

Leonardo Sciascia ( January 8, 1921 November 20, 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and politician.

Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE ( ) (24 August 1899 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature.

Gore Vidal ( b. Eugene Louis Vidal, 3 October 1925 31 July 2012) was an American writer (novels, essays, screenplays, stage plays) and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

Elias Canetti ( 25 July 1905 14 August 1994) was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen.

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