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(FILES) File photo dated on February 19, 2008 shows French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio in Stockholm. Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize on Ocotber 9, 2008, the Swedish Academy...
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circa 1802: English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834). A painting by James Northcote. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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