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05-04-2004, 06:30 PM
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OK -- Bridgette has started a craze (I see that it's already made its way into "Reel People").
List the first ten authors who come to mind who did not write in English.
Have fun!
Bob |
05-04-2004, 06:34 PM
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1. Lady Murasaki
2. Emile Zola
3. Nikos Kazantzakis
4. Guy de Maupassant
5. Aleksandr Pushkin
6. Miguel de Cervantes
7. Gabriel Maria Marques
8. Jorge Luis Borges
9. Niccolo Macchiavelli
10. Dante Alighieri |
05-04-2004, 08:36 PM
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Wow, this one's tough. I think all of these folks wrote only non-English works, but I could be wrong.
Victor Hugo
Alexandre Dumas
Lu Xun
Goethe
Anton Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Aristophanes
Euripides
Dante
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05-05-2004, 08:51 AM
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1. Laura Esquivel
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Murasaki (duh)
4. Basho
5. Chaucer (not in modern English, at any rate)
6. Umberto Eco
7. Kobo Abe
8. Vladimir Nabokov
9. Natsume Soseki
10. Yosinari Kawabata
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05-05-2004, 10:59 AM
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1. Euripides
2. Homer
3. Guy de Paussant
4. Alexandre Dumas
5. Paul (the apostle)
6. Aristophanes
7. Dostoevesky
8. Tolstoy
9. Checkov
10. Sun Tzu
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