Updated September 2026
About Agniya Barto
Agniya Lvovna Barto was a Russian Soviet poet and children's writer of Belarusian Jewish origin.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Mika Waltari
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Walter de la Mare
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Shel Silverstein
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Walt Disney
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