1. Winston Churchill
2. John Steinbeck
3. Albert Camus
4. William Butler Yeats
5. Eugene O’Neill
6. T.S. Eliot
7. Bob Dylan
8. Harold Pinter
9. Seamus Heaney
10. Ernest Hemingway
11. Rudyard Kipling

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