Fernando Pessoa
1888 – 1935 · Portugal · Literature
Wrote as dozens of invented authors; The Book of Disquiet.
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- Walt Whitman
1819 – 1892 · Literature
Álvaro de Campos is Pessoa's Whitmanian heteronym.
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