Portuguese writer (1998 Nobel Prize for literature) Jose Saramago talks with journalists in Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, about 15 miles from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 13, 1999. (Austral Foto/Renzo Gostoli)
American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s, Irvin Allen Ginsberg participates at a 'Noche de poesia' (a poetry's night), Mexico DF, Mexico, August 24, 1981. Ginsberg vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. (Austral Foto/Renzo Gostoli)