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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').
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".
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.
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).
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.
Anders Österling
Anders Österling (1884–1981) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator who served in the Swedish Academy for 62 years, as its permanent secretary from 1941 to 1964.
André Bjerke
André Bjerke (Jarl André Bjerke, 1918–1985) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, and translator who wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Bernhard Borge, including De dødes tjern.
Andrejs Pumpurs
Andrejs Pumpurs (1841–1902) was a Latvian poet of the national awakening era, best known as the creator of the Latvian national epic Lāčplēsis, published in 1888.
Ann Jäderlund
Ann Jäderlund, born 1955 in Stockholm, is a Swedish poet, playwright, and translator whose difficult second collection, Som en gång varit äng (1988), triggered the Jäderlund debate.
Anna Maria Lenngren
Anna Maria Lenngren, née Malmstedt (1754–1817), was a Swedish poet and translator, counted among the foremost Gustavian-era authors; she published almost all her mature poetry anonymously in Stockholms Posten.
Arnulf Øverland
Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and lecturer, best known for the anti-fascist poem 'Du må ikke sove!' and his 1933 acquittal for blasphemy.
Arvid Mörne
Arvid Mörne (1876–1946) was a Finland-Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian who published twenty poetry collections and led a Finnish folk high school from 1899 to 1909.
August Sang
August Sang (1914–1969) was an Estonian poet, critic, and literary translator, member of the Arbujad circle, whose Estonian translation of Goethe's Faust is counted among his greatest achievements.
Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (1896–1947) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, playwright, and university professor, best known for Forest of the Gods, his memoir of imprisonment in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp.
Benedikt Gröndal
Benedikt Gröndal, full name Benedikt Gröndal Sveinbjarnarson, was an Icelandic poet, philologist, and naturalist, a central figure of late nineteenth-century Icelandic culture best known for the satirical Sagan af Heljarslóðarorustu (1861).
Bertel Gripenberg
Bertel Gripenberg (1878–1947) was a Finland-Swedish baron and poet, born in Saint Petersburg, whose 1918 Civil War collection Under fanan made him celebrated before postwar re-evaluation.
Birger Sjöberg
Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and journalist whose popular Frida songs and modernist collection Kriser och kransar (1926) helped lay the groundwork for Swedish modernism.
Bruno K. Öijer
Bruno K. Öijer, born 1951 in Linköping, is a Swedish poet who debuted in 1973, broke through in 1990 with Medan giftet verkar, and won the Bellman Prize.
Carl Michael Bellman
Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and singer, one of Sweden's national poets, best known for Fredman's Epistles (1790) and Fredman's Songs.
Christian Winther
Christian Winther (1796–1876) was a Danish poet of the second Romantic generation, known for the verse narrative Hjortens Flugt (1855) and love poetry centered on Zealand.
Davíð Stefánsson
Davíð Stefánsson (1895–1964), known as Davíð Stefánsson frá Fagraskógi, was an Icelandic poet, playwright, and novelist whose 1919 debut Svartar fjaðrir made him famous almost overnight.
Debora Vaarandi
Debora Vaarandi, born Debora Trull (1916 to 2007), was an Estonian poet of the postwar era whose poem Talgud Lööne soos supplied the lyrics of the beloved Saaremaa valss.
Doris Kareva
Doris Kareva, born in Tallinn in 1958 to composer Hillar Kareva, is an Estonian poet, translator, and UNESCO official, one of Estonia's leading and most translated poets.
Edith Södergran
Edith Irene Södergran (1892–1923) was a Finland-Swedish poet, born in St. Petersburg, who introduced modernist free verse in Swedish and became one of Finland's foremost poets.
Eduards Veidenbaums
Eduards Veidenbaums (1867–1892) was a Latvian poet and translator whose roughly hundred poems, marked by irony and social protest, influenced Latvian writers well into the 21st century.
Eeva-Liisa Manner
Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright, and translator regarded as a pioneer of Finnish post-war modernism; her breakthrough collection was Tämä matka (1956).
Einar Benediktsson
Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an Icelandic poet, lawyer, and journalist, a leading lyric poet of his era. He published five collections and spent decades seeking foreign capital to harness Iceland's waterfalls.
Elmer Diktonius
Elmer Diktonius was a Finland-Swedish poet, writer, critic, and composer, born and died in Helsinki, who pioneered modernism in Nordic literature; his leftist-influenced debut was Min dikt (1921).
Emil Aarestrup
Emil Aarestrup, full name Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup (1800–1856), was a Danish physician and poet whose single collection, Digte (1838), sold about 40 copies before his posthumous recognition.