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Marina Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet, notable for intense lyric verse and exile writing after leaving Soviet Russia in 1922.
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet whose work became central to modern Arabic literature and Palestinian identity after his 1964 book Olive Leaves.
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1980, and author of The Captive Mind (1953).
Josef Koudelka is a Czech-French photographer whose images of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague won a Robert Capa Gold Medal.
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-American poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1987, expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972.
George Seferis was a Greek poet and diplomat who became the first Greek Nobel laureate in Literature in 1963 for his modernist poetry.
Agha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri American poet, known for English-language ghazals and the 1997 collection The Country Without a Post Office.
