Persons

Czech archivist, poet, librarian, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, translator, writer, university educator and science writer

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Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795-1861)

Slovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer

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Ivo Pospíšil (1952- )

Czech translator

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Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021)

Polish poet (1945-2021)

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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

English philologist and author (1892–1973)

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Adolf Černý (1864-1952)

Czech poet, ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer (1864—1952)

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Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863)

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Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874-1941)

Polish critic, poet and translator

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Bohuslav Havránek (1893-1978)

Czech academic, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, professor, publicist, translator, university educator and science writer (1893-1978)

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Vilém Mathesius (1882-1945)

Czech linguist, literature historian and science writer (1882-1945)

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J. M. Coetzee (1940- )

South African writer

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Julio Cortázar (1914-1984)

Argentine and French writer (1914-1984)

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Paul Auster (1947- )

American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter

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Arnošt Kraus (1859-1943)

Czech literature historian, translator and university educator

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Patrik Ouředník (1957- )

Czech archivist, poet, literary theorist, translator and bookwriter

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Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

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Amos Oz (1939-2018)

Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939-2018)

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