Famous literary critics

cultural journalist who reviews new literary books

264 people

All Alive Deceased
Aristotle

Aristotle

Deceased
Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

1799 – 1837 · Age 37
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1849 · Age 40
Deceased
George Orwell

George Orwell

1903 – 1950 · Age 46
Deceased
James Joyce

James Joyce

1882 – 1941 · Age 58
Deceased
J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973 · Age 81
Deceased
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

1905 – 1980 · Age 74
Deceased
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986 · Age 86
Deceased
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

1871 – 1922 · Age 51
Deceased
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950 · Age 94
Deceased
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

1908 – 1986 · Age 78
Deceased
Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

1821 – 1867 · Age 46
Deceased
Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850 · Age 51
Deceased
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941 · Age 59
Deceased
Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

1813 – 1855 · Age 42
Deceased
Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

1797 – 1856 · Age 58
Deceased
Émile Zola

Émile Zola

1840 – 1902 · Age 62
Deceased
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

1848 – 1917 · Age 69
Deceased
Anatole France

Anatole France

1844 – 1924 · Age 80
Deceased
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

1888 – 1965 · Age 76
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
Deceased
Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

1898 – 1956 · Age 58
Deceased
Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

1932 – 2016 · Age 84
Deceased
Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

1713 – 1784 · Age 70
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1899 – 1977 · Age 78
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q4263842