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photos by Sophie Bassouls

American poet, novelist and short story writer Charles Bukowski, drinking on the set of the French TV program Apostrophes hosted by Bernard Pivot.

Argentine novelist and short story writer Julio Cortazar at home in France.

Mario Vargas Llosa is a prominent Peruvian writer. He is a journalist, novelist, playwright, and literary critic.

Susan Sontag relaxes on a sofa.

Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia.

Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

Czech writer Milan Kundera puts his hands to his face during an appearance on the French literary television show Apostrophes.

Margaret Atwood.

German poet, novelist, playwright, and graphic artist Gunter Grass.

Henrietta Garnett.

German-born writer Charles Bukowski stands outside his home in Los Angeles, California. He is a prolific writer in many genres, but is best known for his poetry.

Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson on visit in Paris.

Writer Anthony Burgess.

John Irving.

Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia.

British Writer Salman Rushdie Sitting in Park.

Sebastien Japrisot.

Portuguese writer Jose Saramago leans on a bookshelf in Lisbon. Saramago won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.

French Writer Natacha Michel.

Charles Bukowski.

Italian writer and semiologist Umberto Eco.

Yugoslavian novelist and poet Danilo Kis.