Saturday, January 10, 2026

Non-European Culture Bigshots

As promised from last time


One-Offs

Australia – Thomas Keneally (writer)

Chile – Wifredo Lam (artist)

Venezuela – Marisol (artist)

South Africa – Nadine Gordimer (writer)

Turkey – Orhan Pamuk (writer)

Israel – Amos Oz (writer)

Iraq – Zaha Hadid (artist)

Iran – Rumi (writer)

Nigeria – Chinua Achebe (writer)

Brazil – Hector Villa-Lobos (composer)

Lebanon – Khalil Gibran (Lebanon)

Peru – Mario Vargas Llosa (writer)

Trinidad – VS Naipaul (writer)

Argentina – Jorge Luis Borges (writer)


Twos

Korea – Nam June Paik (artist), Bong Joon Ho (director)

China – Weiwei (artist), Ang Lee (director)

New Zealand – Katherine Mansfield (writer), Peter Jackson (director)

Canada – Margaret Atwood (writer), Peter Cameron (director)

India – Salmon Rushdie (writer), Satyajit Ray (director)

Colombia – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (writer), Fernando Botero (artist)

Chile – Pablo Neruda (writer) Roberto Matta (artist)


Threes

Japan – Kurosawa (director), Yukio Mishima (writer), Hokusai (artist)

Mexico – Frida Kahlo (artist), Guillermo Del Toro (director), Octavio Paz (writer)


All Four

US – Mark Twain (writer), Andy Warhol (artist), Steven Spielberg (director), Charles Ives (composer)



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