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Ali Mahmud Taha
Ali Mahmud Taha (علي محمود طه) was an Egyptian Romantic poet of the Apollo school, nicknamed the Poet of the Gondola for his poem "Al-Jundul".
Amal Dunqul
Amal Dunqul (أمل دنقل) was an Egyptian poet from Upper Egypt and a leading modernist voice in Arabic free verse, famous for his 1976 poem "La Tusalih".
Amir Gilboa
Amir Gilboa (אמיר גלבוע, born Berl Feldman, 1917–1984) was an Israeli Hebrew poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1937 and won the 1982 Israel Prize.
Anvari
Anvari (انوري) was the pen name of Owhad al-Din Mohammad, a 12th-century Persian poet of Abivard in Khurasan, ranked among the greatest panegyrists of Persian literature.
Aref Qazvini
Aref Qazvini, full name Abu'l-Qāsem ʿĀref Qazvīnī (عارف قزوینی, ca. 1882–1934), was an Iranian poet and singer, the leading composer of political songs of the Persian Constitutional Revolution era.
Asadi Tusi
Asadi Tusi (اسدی طوسی), born around 999 and died 1072, was a Persian poet and linguist from Tus in Khorasan, author of the epic Garshasp-nama and the Loghat-e fors dictionary.
Attar of Nishapur
Attar of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری), also called Farid al-Din, was a Persian Sufi poet of Nishapur, killed in the Mongol massacre of 1221, best known for The Conference of the Birds.
Attilâ İlhan
Attilâ İlhan (1925–2005) was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose career spanned six decades; he led the Mavi movement and won the TDK Poetry Award.
Avigdor Hameiri
Avigdor Hameiri (אביגדור המאירי), born Avigdor Feuerstein, was a Hebrew poet and novelist, the leading Hebrew World War I memoirist, who received the Israel Prize in 1968.
Avraham Shlonsky
Avraham Shlonsky (Hebrew: אברהם שלונסקי, 1900–1973) was an Israeli poet, editor, and translator, born in Ukraine, who led Hebrew poetry's transition from romanticism to modernism.
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (بدر شاكر السياب) was an Iraqi poet, translator, and prose writer, born in 1926, remembered as a founder of the free verse movement in Arabic poetry.
Bagdasar Dpir
Bagdasar Dpir (Պաղտասար Դպիր, ca. 1683–1768) was an Armenian poet, teacher, and printer of Constantinople who managed Armenian printing houses for over 50 years and wrote more than 200 verse works.
Behçet Necatigil
Behçet Necatigil, born Mehmet Behçet (1916–1979), was a Turkish poet, writer, and translator known for poems about the house, family, and everyday life of the middle-class city dweller.
Beş Hececiler
Beş Hececiler, or Hecenin Beş Şairi, names five Turkish poets, including Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, who turned from aruz to syllabic meter around 1917 under Ziya Gökalp's influence.
Bijan Elahi
Bijan Elahi (بیژن الهی; 1945–2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator, a leading figure of the Other Poetry movement who published almost no poetry in his lifetime.
Bijan Jalali
Bijan Jalali (بیژن جلالی, 1928–1999) was an Iranian modernist poet born in Tehran, a pioneer of she'r-e sepid (white verse), known for short, simple, prose-like poems on solitude and death.
Bozor Sobir
Bozor Sobir (Бозор Собир) was a Tajik poet regarded as a leading figure of modern Tajik poetry, known for patriotic verse and awarded the Rudaki State Prize in 1988.
Buland al-Haidari
Buland al-Haidari (بلند الحيدري) was an Iraqi poet of Kurdish origin, a founder of Arabic free verse, born in 1926 and died in exile in London in 1996.
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, born Hüseyin Cahit, was a Turkish poet born in Diyarbakır in 1910, best known for "Otuz Beş Yaş," which won the 1946 CHP poetry competition.
Cahit Zarifoğlu
Cahit Zarifoğlu, full name Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu, was a Turkish poet and writer who co-founded the magazine Mavera in 1976 and wrote in many genres.
Can Yücel
Can Yücel, nicknamed "Can Baba," was a Turkish poet and translator (1926–1999) who brought street language and humor into modern Turkish poetry and freely translated Shakespeare, Lorca, and Brecht.
Cemal Süreya
Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), born Cemalettin Seber, was a Turkish poet, essayist, and translator and a leading voice of the İkinci Yeni movement, known for Üvercinka and his magazine Papirüs.
Cenab Şahabeddin
Cenab Şahabeddin, also known as Cenap Şahabettin, was an Ottoman and Turkish poet, prose writer, and physician, the leading poet of the Servet-i Fünûn movement of 1896 to 1901.
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Dahlia Ravikovitch (דליה רביקוביץ'; 1936–2005) was an Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist whose 1959 debut, The Love of an Orange, made her a leading Hebrew poet; she won the Israel Prize in 1998.
Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (דן פגיס) was an Israeli poet and scholar of medieval Hebrew poetry, a Holocaust survivor best known for the poem "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car."
Ece Ayhan
Ece Ayhan (full name Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 1931–2002) was a Turkish poet of the İkinci Yeni movement, regarded as its most original voice, calling his allusive verse civil poetry.
Edip Cansever
Edip Cansever (Ömer Edip Cansever, 1928–1986) was a Turkish poet of the İkinci Yeni movement known for dramatic poems with named characters, such as Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım.
Eleazar Kalir
Eleazar Kalir (Hebrew: אלעזר בירבי קליר), also Eleazar ha-Kalir, was a Byzantine Jewish liturgical poet, or paytan, of the Land of Israel whose Hebrew hymns, the piyyutim, are still sung in synagogue services.
Erdem Beyazıt
Erdem Beyazıt, usually spelled Erdem Bayazıt and fully named Adil Erdem Bayazıt, was a Turkish poet and politician of the Mavera generation who died in 2008.
Eremia Chelebi
Eremia Chelebi (Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan, 1637–1695) was an Armenian poet, historian, translator, and printer of seventeenth-century Constantinople, best known for his detailed chronicles of Istanbul and his Armeno-Turkish writings.