Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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1972 · United States
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1968–2025 · United States
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1976 · United Kingdom
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1881–1945 · Germany
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1990 · India
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1969 · United States
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