<Li> Heinrich von Veldeke, Jacob Cats, Joost van den Vondel, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Multatuli, Louis Couperus, Harry Mulisch, Willem Frederik Hermans, Cees Nooteboom (The Netherlands) </Li> <Li> Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Hans Christian Andersen, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark) </Li> <Li> Georges Simenon, Emile Verhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck, Willem Elsschot, Louis Paul Boon, Hugo Claus (Belgium) </Li> <Li> Sigrid Undset, Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway) </Li>

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