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LiteratureTony Harrison
1937 – 2025 · Poet; translator; playwright; librettist; film-poet
“Public poet of Leeds: verse for page, stage and screen.”
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LiteraturePeter Gill
1939 – 2026 · Playwright, theatre director, actor
“Cardiff-born writer and director who made ordinary lives the centre of British theatre.”
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LiteratureTerry Pratchett
1948 – 2015 · Novelist
“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
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LiteratureJane Austen
1775 – 1817 · Novelist
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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LiteratureCharles Dickens
1812 – 1870 · Novelist
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
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LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Playwright and poet
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
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