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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

19401996

Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate known for an authorship imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity

Angela Carter

Angela Carter

19401992

English novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works, recognized posthumously as one of the greatest British writers