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Wole Soyinka

Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language

Madame de Stael

French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction

Simon Schama

English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history