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Aaro Hellaakoski
Aaro Hellaakoski, originally Helaakoski, was a Finnish poet and geographer, a pioneer of modern Finnish poetry best known for his experimental 1928 collection Jääpeili ('Ice mirror').
Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever (1913–2010), also Avrom Sutskever, was a Yiddish poet and Holocaust witness, a member of the Vilna Ghetto's Paper Brigade, and editor of Di goldene keyt.
Ada Negri
Ada Negri was an Italian poet and elementary-school teacher, born in Lodi in 1870, whose socially engaged verse made her famous as the "poetess of the fourth estate."
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz (1798 to 1855) was a Polish Romantic poet, playwright, and political activist regarded as Poland's national poet; his works include Dziady and the 1834 epic Pan Tadeusz.
Adam Oehlenschläger
Adam Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) was a Danish poet and dramatist who introduced Romanticism into Danish literature and wrote the national song "Der er et yndigt land".
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso, born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot de Boncourt, was a French-born German-language poet and naturalist who wrote Peter Schlemihl and discovered alternation of generations in salps.
Adriaan Roland Holst
Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976) was a Dutch poet, nicknamed the prince of poets, who lived in Bergen, wrote Een winter aan zee (1937), and won the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1955.
Adrian Păunescu
Adrian Păunescu (1943–2010) was a Romanian poet, journalist, editor, and politician, best known as founder of Cenaclul Flacăra, whose traveling shows drew over 6 million spectators before its ban in 1985.
Afanasy Fet
Afanasy Fet (Афанасий Фет; born Afanasy Afanasyevich Shenshin, 1820–1892) was a Russian lyric poet and translator known for impressionistic poems on nature and love, and for the late collection Evening Lights, which helped prepare Russian symbolism.
Agnes Miegel
Agnes Miegel (1879–1964) was a German poet and ballad writer celebrated for writing about East Prussia, known as the Mother of East Prussia, who supported the Nazi regime.
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), Martinican poet and politician, co-founder of Négritude with Senghor and Damas, author of Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Discourse on Colonialism, mayor of Fort-de-France 1945–2001.
Aivars Eipurs
Aivars Eipurs, who publishes his poetry under the pen name Eduards Aivars, is a Latvian poet and publicist born in 1956, known for a poetry of paradox and irony.
Albert Verwey
Albert Verwey (1865–1937) was a Dutch poet, critic, and translator who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, edited De Beweging, and taught Dutch literature at Leiden.
Alda Merini
Alda Merini (1931–2009) was an Italian poet, born and died in Milan, regarded as a major lyric voice of twentieth-century Italian poetry, known for her asylum years.
Aleksa Šantić
Aleksa Šantić (1868–1924) was a Serbian poet and dramatist from Mostar, one of the most popular Serbian poets, known for "Emina" and "Ostajte ovdje" (Stay Here).
Aleksandrs Čaks
Aleksandrs Čaks, real name Aleksandrs Čadarainis (1901–1950), was a Latvian poet who gave voice to ordinary people and objects of Riga street life in Mana paradīze (1932).
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Aleksei Kruchenykh (Алексей Кручёных, 1886–1968) was a Russian Futurist poet, artist, and publisher, a radical experimenter of the avant-garde who co-created zaum, a transrational poetic language.
Aleksey Apukhtin
Aleksey Apukhtin (Алексей Апухтин) was a Russian lyric poet, 1840 to 1893, whose melancholy love verse became famous romances set by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff; his first collection appeared in 1886.
Aleksey Khomyakov
Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860) was a Russian Orthodox lay theologian, poet, and philosopher who, with Ivan Kireevsky, founded Slavophilism; his concept of sobornost shaped Orthodox ecclesiology.
Aleksey Koltsov
Aleksey Koltsov (Алексей Васильевич Кольцов) was a self-taught Russian lyric poet, 1809 to 1842, the son of a Voronezh cattle dealer whose folk-style songs like "Kosar" became popular folk songs.
Aleksey Surkov
Aleksey Surkov (Алексей Сурков; 1899–1983) was a Soviet poet, journalist, and first secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR from 1953 to 1959.
Ales Harun
Ales Harun (Алесь Гарун) was the pen name of Belarusian poet and political activist Alesaksandr Prushynski, 1887 to 1920, exiled to Siberia from 1908 to 1917.
Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok (Александр Блок), 1880–1921, Russian Symbolist poet and playwright of the Silver Age; author of Verses About the Beautiful Lady and the revolutionary long poem The Twelve; died in Petrograd of heart failure from malnutrition.
Alexander Pushkin (Александр Сергеевич Пушкин)
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, 1799–1837), Russian poet, playwright, and prose writer, founder of modern Russian literature and creator of the Russian literary language; author of Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, and The Tales of Belkin; died in a duel with d'Anthès.
Alexandre O'Neill
Alexandre O'Neill (1924–1986) was a Portuguese poet, born and died in Lisbon, who co-founded the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa in 1947 and later wrote satirical poetry marked by wordplay and irony.
Alexandru Vlahuță
Alexandru Vlahuță (1858–1919) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist, best known for the travel volume România pitorească (1901) and a monograph on painter Nicolae Grigorescu.
Alf Larsen
Alf Larsen (1885–1967) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and cultural debater who edited the journal Janus from 1933 to 1941 and whose posthumous papers documented antisemitism.
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, real surname Čipkus (1919–2015), was a Lithuanian émigré poet, translator, and literary critic who left Lithuania in 1944 and is regarded as one of the most prominent modern Lithuanian poets.
Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) was a French Romantic poet and playwright known for Les Nuits and Lorenzaccio, and elected to the Académie française in 1852.
Alfred Lichtenstein
Alfred Lichtenstein (1889 to 1914) was a German expressionist poet and narrator whose poem Die Dämmerung (1911) made his name; he fell in World War I in 1914.