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It is 120 years today since Cecil Day Lewis was born.
Irish poet, publisher and professor, and a British citizen from 1948. Cecil Day Lewis is one of the most prominent names in English-language poetry from the mid-twentieth century. Writing under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, he was also a respected and rather popular crime writer. He was a member of many different academic societies in Great Britain and the USA, and a professor of poetry at...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -
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1909 - 1971
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1937 -
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1947 - 2020
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