Being "best of category" or best-known representative of a national literature. Cervantes for Spain. Shakespeare. Goethe, Dante. Or of a century: Lorca for twentieth century Spain.
Celan, for being the best-known European poet of post-war period. Baudelaire for being, well, Baudelaire.
The founders of disciplines or whole schools of literature. Borges.
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