Portugal – 1957 Poet Joao Baptista Almeida Garret. He was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major promoter of theater in Portugal he is considered the greatest figure of Portuguese Romanticism and a true revolutionary and humanist.
Greece – 2019 Herodotus – Ancient Greek Literature. Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars.
USA – 2020 Gwendolyn L. Ifill was an American journalist, author and television newscaster. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program with Washington Week in Review.
USA – 2023 Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Czechoslovakia – 1989 Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was an Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
USA – 1980 Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan. Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. Anne Sullivan Macy was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.
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Wow, quite the selection today! I’ll have to add some of their books to my ‘to read’ list – Finnbadger
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Very interesting. As for the ones I read, only the two first (when at university). Not my favourite authors, but nice stamps 🙂
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An eclectic mix of writers. It is a lovely portrait of Toni Morrison
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