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Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Salma Khadra Jayyusi (سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي), born Salma Subhi Said al-Khadra, was a Palestinian poet, critic, and anthologist who founded PROTA in 1980 to translate Arabic literature into English.
Salman Savaji
Salman Savaji (سلمان ساوجی) was a 14th-century Persian court poet, born in Saveh and serving the Jalayirids in Baghdad, regarded as one of the last great qasida masters.
Samih al-Qasim
Samih al-Qasim (سميح القاسم, 1939–2014) was a Palestinian Druze poet, journalist, and playwright who spent his life in Israel, publishing more than 60 books of resistance poetry.
Samuel ibn Naghrillah
Samuel ibn Naghrillah, known in Hebrew as Samuel ha-Nagid (שמואל הנגיד), was a Jewish scholar, poet, and statesman who served as vizier and army commander of Granada in eleventh-century Spain.
Sargon Boulus
Sargon Boulus (سركون بولص, 1944–2007) was an Iraqi Assyrian poet, a leading figure of the Arabic prose poem, and a prolific translator of world poetry.
Sezai Karakoç
Sezai Karakoç (1933–2021) was a Turkish poet, essayist, and political activist born in Ergani, Diyarbakır, whose metaphysical poetry, Diriliş magazine, and resurrection school of thought made him a central figure in twentieth-century Turkish Islamic literature.
Shabestari
Shabestari was a Persian Sufi poet of the early 14th century, born near Tabriz, best known for the Gulshan-i Raz, a principal text of Sufism.
Shahid Balkhi
Shahid Balkhi (شهید بلخی) was a 10th-century Persian poet, theologian, and philosopher from Balkh, remembered as a pioneer of New Persian poetry and a friend of Rudaki.
Shahin Shirazi
Shahin Shirazi, or Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī, was a fourteenth-century Judeo-Persian poet born in Shiraz, regarded as the founder of Judeo-Persian poetry, who versified the Hebrew Bible.
Shams Langeroodi
Shams Langeroodi (شمس لنگرودی), born Mohammad-Taqi Javaheri Gilani, is an Iranian poet and literary researcher, a leading figure of prose poetry after the Islamic Revolution.
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky (שאול טשרניחובסקי) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet and physician who, with Hayim Nahman Bialik, stood among modern Hebrew poetry's founders, translating Homer into Hebrew.
Shi'r group
The Shi'r group (جماعة شعر) was a circle of Arab modernist poets formed around Shi'r, the Beirut magazine founded in 1957 by Yusuf al-Khal with Adonis.
Shin Shalom
Shin Shalom, born Shalom Joseph Shapira (ש. שלום; 1904–1990), was an Israeli Hebrew poet and playwright of the Third Aliyah who won the 1973 Israel Prize for poetry.
Siavash Kasraei
Siavash Kasraei (سیاوش کسرایی) was an Iranian poet and Tudeh Party Marxist, best known for the 1959 narrative poem Arash the Archer, a landmark of modern Persian poetry.
Simin Behbahani
Simin Behbahani (سیمین بهبهانی), born Siminbar Khalili, was an Iranian poet and activist, born in Tehran in 1927 and died there in 2014, known for renewing the ghazal.
Sohrab Sepehri
Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری, 1928–1980) was an Iranian modernist poet and painter whose collected poems, Hašt ketāb (Eight Books), are among the most popular in Persian new poetry.
Suad al-Sabah
Suad al-Sabah (سعاد الصباح), born in 1942, is a Kuwaiti poet of the ruling Al Sabah family and a leading woman poet of the Arabian Gulf.
Sulayman al-Issa
Sulayman al-Issa (سليمان العيسى) was a Syrian poet, born in 1921 and best known for the large body of children's poetry and songs he wrote after 1967.
Süleyman Nazif
Süleyman Nazif (1869 or 1870, Diyarbakır – 1927) was an Ottoman poet, journalist, and governor in the Servet-i Fünûn circle, remembered for polemical prose and resisting the Allied occupation of Istanbul.
Sultan Walad
Sultan Walad (سلطان ولد), born Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad, was a Persian Sufi poet, son of Rumi and founder of the Mevlevi order, dying in 1312.
Suzani Samarqandi
Suzani Samarqandi (سوزنی سمرقندی), full name Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali Samarqandi, was a twelfth-century Persian poet born in Nasaf, known for sharp invective and qasidas praising Qarakhanid and Seljuk rulers.
T. Carmi
T. Carmi, pen name of Carmi Charney (ט. כרמי; 1925–1994), was an American-born Israeli Hebrew poet who fought in the War of Independence and edited The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse.
Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout (1954–1993) was an Algerian poet, novelist, and journalist who wrote in French. He edited the weekly Ruptures and was assassinated by Islamist militants in 1993.
Tajal Bewas
Tajal Bewas (تاجل بيوس), born Taj Muhammad, was a Pakistani poet and prose writer in Sindhi, Urdu, and English, known for "Sindh Munhinji Aman," sung by Abida Parveen.
Taqi Raf'at
Taqi Raf'at (تقی رفعت) was a Persian poet, critic, and journalist from Tabriz who first argued for breaking with classical Persian poetry and died by suicide in 1920.
Tawfiq Zayyad
Tawfiq Zayyad (توفيق زيّاد, 1929–1994) was a Palestinian poet and communist politician, mayor of Nazareth from 1975 until his death and a Knesset member for six terms.
Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar, full name Ahmet Turgut Uyar, was a Turkish poet and civil servant, a leading figure of the İkinci Yeni movement that reshaped Turkish poetry from the mid-1950s.
Unsi al-Haj
Unsi al-Haj (أنسي الحاج; 1937–2014) was a Lebanese poet and journalist, a pioneer of the Arabic prose poem whose first collection, Lan, appeared in 1960, and a leading contributor to the modernist magazine Shi'r.
Unsuri
Unsuri (عنصری بلخی) was a Persian poet of the early Ghaznavid period who served as poet laureate, or king of poets, to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna until his death in 1039.
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hebrew אורי צבי גרינבערג) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet and essayist, a trailblazer of modernism in both literatures, and a Revisionist Zionist leader.