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Uvaysi
Uvaysi, pen name of Jahon otin, was a classical Uzbek poetess (around 1780 to 1845) who served at the Kokand court and taught poetry to the queen Nodira.
Vahan Tekeyan
Vahan Tekeyan (Վահան Թեքեյան, 1878–1945) was a Western Armenian poet, editor, and publicist born in Constantinople who settled in Cairo, regarded as the last major representative of Western Armenian classical lyric poetry.
Vahshi Bafqi
Vahshi Bafqi (وحشی بافقی) was a Persian poet of the Safavid era, best known for his ghazals and the romance Shirin o Farhad; he died in 1583.
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937–2026) was a Lebanese-born French-language poet and novelist who settled in Paris in 1972 and won the Prix Apollinaire and the Prix Goncourt de la poésie.
Yaghma Jandaghi
Yaghma Jandaghi (یغمای جندقی), born Mirza Rahim, was a Persian satirist and calligrapher of the Qajar era, known for obscene invective against the powerful and for Ashura elegies.
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, born Ahmed Âgâh (1884–1958), was a Turkish poet, prose writer, diplomat, and politician, regarded with Ahmet Haşim as a founder of pure poetry in Turkish literature.
Yehuda Alharizi
Yehuda Alharizi (יהודה אלחריזי), also Yehuda ben Shelomo al-Harizi, was a Hebrew poet and traveler from Toledo who established the maqama as a Hebrew literary form in Sefer Tahkemoni.
Yehuda Amichai (יהודה עמיחי)
Yehuda Amichai (יהודה עמיחי), born Ludwig Pfeufer (1924–2000), was an Israeli poet, the leading poet of Israel's Statehood Generation, author of Now and in Other Days (1955) and Open Closed Open, Israel Prize laureate, most translated Israeli poet.
Yitzhak Lamdan
Yitzhak Lamdan (יצחק למדן; 1899–1954) was a Hebrew poet and editor born in Ukraine who settled in Palestine in 1920, best known for his epic poem Masada (1927).
Yitzhak Shenhar
Yitzhak Shenhar (born Yitzhak Shenberg, 1902–1957) was a Hebrew poet, fiction writer, and translator, a central prose writer of the Yishuv period who translated Tolstoy, Gogol, and Chekhov into Hebrew.
Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach (יונה וולך; 1944–1985) was an Israeli poet of the Tel Aviv poets circle whose openly sexual, experimental verse made her a legend of modern Hebrew poetry.
Yusuf al-Khal
Yusuf al-Khal (يوسف الخال, 1917–1987) was a Syrian-born Lebanese poet, critic, and publisher who founded the Beirut poetry magazine Shi'r in 1957 and pioneered Arabic free verse.
Yusuf Khass Hajib
Yusuf Khass Hajib (c. 1019–1085) was a Karakhanid poet, philosopher, and statesman from Balasagun, author of the Kutadgu Bilig, the oldest surviving monument of Islamic Turkic literature.
Zahir Faryabi
Zahir Faryabi (ظهیر فاریابی) was a Persian court poet of the 12th century, a leading master of the qasida and ghazal who served the Ildegozid atabegs of Azerbaijan and died in Tabriz in 1201.
Zelda (poet)
Zelda, pen name of Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky (1914–1984), was an Israeli Hebrew poet who drew on biblical and hasidic sources and won the Bialik and Brenner prizes.