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Necati Cumalı
Necati Cumalı (1921–2001) was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and lawyer, best known for his tobacco-growing novels of the Aegean, beginning with Tütün Zamanı (1959).
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983) was a Turkish poet, playwright, and ideological writer whose Kaldırımlar shaped Republican-era literature and whose magazine Büyük Doğu led an Islamic movement.
Neshat Esfahani
Neshat Esfahani (نشاط اصفهانی), full name Mirza Abdolvahab Mousavi, was a Qajar-era Iranian poet, calligrapher, and statesman who served as Iran's first foreign minister under Fath-Ali Shah.
Nigâr Hanım
Nigâr Hanım (Nigâr bint-i Osman) was an Ottoman Turkish poet and diarist, known as the first to publish poetry under her own name in the Western tradition.
Nima Yooshij
Nima Yooshij (نیما یوشیج), pen name of Ali Esfandiari, was an Iranian poet, 1897–1960, regarded as the father of modern Persian poetry and founder of she'r-e now.
Nizami Aruzi
Nizami Aruzi Samarqandi was a 12th-century Persian poet and prose writer from Samarkand, best known for the Chahar Maqala, his treatise on secretaries, poets, astronomers, and physicians.
Nizami Ganjavi (نظامی گنجوی)
Nizami Ganjavi (نظامی گنجوی), Jamal al-Din Ilyas ibn Yusuf, c. 1141–1209, a Persian-language poet of Ganja whose Khamsa, five masnavi poems including Khosrow o Shirin and Leyli o Majnun, shaped Persian and Islamic literature.
Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Qabbani (نزار قباني) was a Syrian poet and diplomat, one of the most widely read modern Arab poets, known for love poetry and political verse.
Ogahiy
Ogahiy, full name Muhammad Rizo Ogahiy (1809–1874), was an Uzbek poet, historian, and translator of the Khiva Khanate who wrote chronicles of Khiva, lyric ghazals, and Persian translations.
Oktay Rifat
Oktay Rifat, full name Ali Oktay Rifat (1914–1988), was a Turkish poet, playwright, and novelist who co-founded the Garip movement in 1941 and later embraced the Second New.
Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık, known as Orhan Veli (1914–1950), was a Turkish poet who with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet Anday founded the Garip movement, rejecting meter and rhyme.
Özdemir Asaf
Özdemir Asaf (real name Halit Özdemir Arun; 1923, Ankara–1981, Istanbul) was a Turkish poet, translator, and publisher best known for short, paradoxical verses and the book Yalnızlık Paylaşılmaz (1978).
Parvin E'tesami
Parvin E'tesami (پروین اعتصامی), born Rakhshanda E'tesami, was an Iranian poet (1907–1941) best known for perfecting the monāẓara, a Persian poem cast as a debate between personified beings.
Parviz Natel Khanlari
Parviz Natel Khanlari (پرویز ناتل خانلری) was an Iranian scholar of Persian language and literature, poet, and founding editor of the monthly Sokhan, best known for his three-volume history of Persian.
Payrav Sulaymoni
Payrav Sulaymoni (Пайрав Сулаймонӣ) was a Tajik poet born in Bukhara in 1899 whose ghazals blended classical Persian verse with the social themes of Soviet Central Asia.
Qaani
Qaani (قاآنی) was the pen name of Mirzā Ḥabib-Allāh Širāzi, a Persian poet of the Qajar era, born in Shiraz, who died in Rayy in 1854 and led the Literary Return style.
Qani Tabrizi
Qani Tabrizi (1808–1854) was a Persian poet of the Qajar era, famed for his odes and his prose work Parišān, and poet laureate under Naser-al-Din Shah.
Qasim Haddad
Qasim Haddad (قاسم حداد), born 1948, is a Bahraini poet who moved from metered verse to the prose poem and is considered its foremost pioneer in the Gulf.
Qatran Tabrizi
Qatran Tabrizi (قطران تبریزی) was an 11th-century Persian-language poet who served the courts of Azerbaijan, Arran, and Armenia and praised their rulers in his qasidas.
Rabia Balkhi
Rabia Balkhi (رابعه بلخی), known as Zayn al-Arab, was a 10th-century poet of Balkh, in present-day Afghanistan, regarded as the first woman to write poetry in New Persian.
Rachel Bluwstein
Rachel Bluwstein (Hebrew: רחל בלובשטיין), known as Rachel the Poetess, was a Russian-born Hebrew poet (1890–1931), the first major woman poet in Hebrew, whose lyrics appear on Israel's 20-shekel banknote.
Refaat Alareer (رفعت العرعير)
Refaat Alareer (رفعت العرعير, 1979–2023), Palestinian poet and English literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, editor of Gaza Writes Back, founder of We Are Not Numbers, killed by an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023; his 2011 poem "If I Must Die" went viral worldwide.
Rıfat Ilgaz
Rıfat Ilgaz (full name Mehmet Rıfat Ilgaz; 1911–1993) was a Turkish poet, novelist, short-story writer, and teacher, best known for the humorous school novel Hababam Sınıfı.
Rudaki (رودکی)
Rudaki (رودکی), Abu ʿAbd-Allāh Jaʿfar ibn Moḥammad, ca. 858-941, Samanid court poet at Bukhara called the father of Persian poetry; only about a thousand verses survive from a claimed 1.3 million lines.
Saadi Shirazi (سعدی شیرازی)
Saadi Shirazi (سعدی شیرازی), also known as Sadi of Shiraz, was a Persian poet born in Shiraz around 1210 whose Būstān and Golestān became core texts of Persian education.
Saadi Youssef
Saadi Youssef (سعدي يوسف, 1934 – June 2021) was an Iraqi poet, translator, and journalist, born near Basra and a leading figure of modern Arabic poetry.
Salah Abdel Sabour
Salah Abdel Sabour (صلاح عبد الصبور) was an Egyptian poet, playwright, and critic, a pioneer of Arabic free verse and a leading figure in Arabic poetic drama.
Salah Birsel
Salah Birsel (1919–1999), real name Ahmet Selâhaddin, was a Turkish poet, essayist, and diarist of the 1940 Generation, credited with establishing the diary as a Turkish literary genre.
Salah Jahin
Salah Jahin (صلاح جاهين), born Mohamed Salah El-Din Bahgat Ahmed Helmy, was an Egyptian colloquial poet, cartoonist, and playwright (1930–1986) who wrote the Rubaiyat and helped found modern Egyptian caricature.
Salah Niazi
Salah Niazi (صلاح نيازي, born July 1935) is an Iraqi poet, critic, and translator who has lived in London since the 1960s and translated Ulysses into Arabic.