Famous literary critics
cultural journalist who reviews new literary books
608 people
Walter Scott
1771
– 1832
· Age 61
Deceased
José Saramago
1922
– 2010
· Age 87
Deceased
Samuel Johnson
1709
– 1784
· Age 75
Deceased
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936
– 2025
· Age 89
Deceased
C. S. Lewis
1898
– 1963
· Age 64
Deceased
Anna Akhmatova
1889
– 1966
· Age 76
Deceased
Herman Melville
1819
– 1891
· Age 72
Deceased
Lu Xun
1881
– 1936
· Age 55
Deceased
Antonio Gramsci
1891
– 1937
· Age 46
Deceased
Elfriede Jelinek
1946
· Age 79
Alive
Michel Foucault
1926
– 1984
· Age 57
Deceased
Stefan Zweig
1881
– 1942
· Age 60
Deceased
Ayn Rand
1905
– 1982
· Age 77
Deceased
Giosuè Carducci
1835
– 1907
· Age 71
Deceased
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772
– 1834
· Age 61
Deceased
Thomas Carlyle
1795
– 1881
· Age 85
Deceased
Wisława Szymborska
1923
– 2012
· Age 88
Deceased
François Mauriac
1885
– 1970
· Age 84
Deceased
G. K. Chesterton
1874
– 1936
· Age 62
Deceased
John Ruskin
1819
– 1900
· Age 80
Deceased
Liu Xiaobo
1955
– 2017
· Age 61
Deceased
William Somerset Maugham
1874
– 1965
· Age 91
Deceased
Giacomo Leopardi
1798
– 1837
· Age 38
Deceased
Ezra Pound
1885
– 1972
· Age 87
Deceased
Karel Čapek
1890
– 1938
· Age 48
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q4263842