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1936–2015poet

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b. 1960novelist

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1889–1968writer (1889-1968)

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1948–2020poet

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b. 1938writer

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1941–1998author

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1940–2022writer, scholar

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1924–2025poet

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1937–2025writer (1937-2025)

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1923–2011historian

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1933–2006journalist

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1915–2002Hindi poet

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1939–2019writer

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1930–2009writer (1930-2009)

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