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Etel Adnan (إيتيل عدنان)
Etel Adnan (إيتيل عدنان), 1925–2021, Lebanese-American poet, essayist, novelist, and painter; author of Sitt Marie Rose; wrote in French and English; known for leporellos, Mount Tamalpais paintings, documenta 13, Whitney Biennial, and the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Fadhil al-Azzawi (فاضل العزاوي, born 1940 in Kirkuk) is an Iraqi poet, novelist, and translator, a central figure of Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation who has lived in Berlin since 1977.
Fadwa Tuqan
Fadwa Tuqan (فدوى طوقان), 1917–2003, was a Palestinian poet from Nablus, known as the "poetess of Palestine", who wrote eight collections of love and resistance poetry.
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (فخرالدین عراقی) was a Persian Sufi poet and prose writer, 1213 to 1289, best known for the Lama'at, a treatise on Sufism, and his passionate mystical ghazals.
Falaki Shirvani
Falaki Shirvani (فلكي شرواني), full name Abu'l-Nezam Mohammad, was a Persian-language poet of Shirvan in the 12th century, a court panegyrist under the Shirvanshah Manuchehr II and a fellow student of Abul-Ala Ganjavi alongside Khagani.
Farouk Gouida
Farouk Gouida (فاروق جويدة) is an Egyptian poet and journalist at Al-Ahram, born in 1945 or 1946, known for love and patriotic poems set to music.
Farrukhi Sistani
Farrukhi Sistani (فرخی سیستانی) was a Persian court poet of the late 10th and early 11th centuries who served Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna and wrote celebrated qasidas.
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914–2008), born Mehmet Fazıl in Istanbul, was a Turkish poet of the Republican era who wrote close to 70 poetry books and 23 epics.
Fereydoun Moshiri
Fereydoun Moshiri (فریدون مشیری) was a prominent Iranian poet whose lyrical poetry blended classical Persian forms with modern verse, winning him one of the widest popular readerships in Iran.
Fereydoun Tavallali
Fereydoun Tavallali (فریدون توللی) was an Iranian poet and satirist from Shiraz best known for the lyric poem "Maryam" and the satirical prose collection Eltefāsil, living from 1919 to 1985.
Fitnat Hanım
Fitnat Hanım (Fıtnat Hanım) was the pen name of Zübeyde, an 18th-century Ottoman divan poet of Istanbul, generally regarded as the Ottoman era's most successful woman poet.
Forugh Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad was a leading Iranian modernist poet and filmmaker who published five collections and directed The House is Black in 1962. Her work explored love and gender.
Forughi Bastami
Forughi Bastami (فروغی بسطامی) was a Persian poet of the Qajar era, a leading ghazal writer born in Karbala in 1798 who died in Tehran in 1857.
Fouad Haddad
Fouad Haddad (فؤاد حداد) was an Egyptian poet and writer (1927–1985), a founder of epic colloquial poetry in Egypt, best known for the Ramadan song "Al-Masaharati".
Francis Marrash
Francis Marrash, also known as Francis al-Marrash (فرنسيس مرّاش), was a Syrian writer, poet, and physician of the Nahda whose 1865 work Ghabat al-Haqq is considered by critics the first Arabic novel.
Furqat
Furqat, pen name of Zokirjon Kholmuhammad o'g'li, was an Uzbek poet and calligrapher of the National Renaissance period, born in Kokand, who died in Yarkand in 1909.
Ghazi al-Gosaibi
Ghazi al-Gosaibi (غازي القصيبي), full name Ghazi bin Abdulrahman Algosaibi (1940–2010), was a Saudi poet, novelist, diplomat, and government minister who published roughly seventy books.
Ghevond Alishan
Ghevond Alishan (Ղևոնդ Ալիշան), born Kerovbe Alishanean, was an Armenian Catholic priest, poet, and historian of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Venice who wrote more than 45 volumes.
Golchin Gilani
Golchin Gilani (گلچین گیلانی) was the pen name of Majd-al-Din Mir-Fakhra'i, an Iranian poet and physician who lived in London and wrote "Bārān" (The rain).
Gorgani
Fakhr al-Din As'ad Gorgani was an 11th-century Persian poet whose verse romance Vis o Ramin, completed around 1055 and dedicated to the Saljuq governor of Isfahan, shaped the Persian romance tradition.
Gülten Akın
Gülten Akın, full name Gülten Akın Cankoçak, was a Turkish poet and lawyer who published more than twenty books from 1956 and was voted Turkey's greatest living poet in 2008.
Habibi
Habibi (Habîbî, حبيبى) was a 15th-century Azerbaijani poet who served the Aqqoyunlu and Safavid courts, won the title 'king of poets' from Shah Ismail, and influenced Fuzuli.
Hasan Dehlavi
Hasan Dehlavi (حسن دهلوی) was an Indo-Persian poet of Delhi, born around 1253, known as the "Sa'di of Hindustan" and credited with founding the Indo-Persian ghazal.
Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil
Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil (1927–1984) was a Turkish poet, writer, and journalist, a leading social realist voice after 1950 who published 26 books and won major poetry awards.
Hatef Esfahani
Hatef Esfahani (هاتف اصفهانی) was the pen name of Sayyed Ahmad Hosseini, an influential Persian poet of the 18th century who pioneered the literary return movement.
Hatim al-Tai (حاتم الطائي)
Hatim al-Tai (حاتم الطائي), also Hatem Ta'i, Hatim Tai: pre-Islamic Arab poet and chieftain of the Tayy tribe, proverbial for boundless generosity; father of the Companion 'Adi ibn Hatim, with a diwan of about 52 poems and a Persian romance tradition.
Hayim Nahman Bialik (חיים נחמן ביאליק)
Hayim Nahman Bialik (חיים נחמן ביאליק), 1873–1934, Ukrainian-born Hebrew poet called the national poet, author of "In the City of Slaughter," Dvir publisher, and shaper of modern Hebrew poetry.
Hilmi Yavuz
Hilmi Yavuz (born 14 April 1936) is a Turkish poet, essayist, and lecturer whose modern verse brings classical Ottoman Divan poetry and Sufi thought into Turkish.
Houshang Ebtehaj
Houshang Ebtehaj, who wrote under the pen name H. E. Sayeh, was an Iranian poet and Hafez scholar regarded as one of the twentieth century's leading poets.
Houshang Irani
Houshang Irani (هوشنگ ایرانی, 1925–1973) was an Iranian poet, translator, critic, and painter who pioneered surrealist and Dadaist experiment in modern Persian poetry and led the Khorus jangi circle.