Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
Claude Simon

Claude Simon

male, deceased (2005)
Claude Simon (10 October 1913 - 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was born in Antananarivo,...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

male, deceased (1970)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman...