Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961 · United States · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954
Stripped English prose to the bone.
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- Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904 · Literature, Medicine
Chekhov's omission and restraint underlie the iceberg style.
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