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Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) was a Swedish lyric poet of Dalarna who in 1931 became the only writer ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously.
Erik Blomberg
Erik Blomberg (1894–1965) was a Swedish poet, art critic, and translator, a leading Swedish poet of the 1920s and translator of Hafis and Chinese lyric.
Erik Johan Stagnelius
Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823) was a Swedish Romantic poet from Öland, unknown in his life but admired after death as one of Sweden's finest lyricists.
Erik Lindegren
Erik Lindegren (Johan Erik Lindegren, 1910–1968) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator whose 1942 collection mannen utan väg launched the modernist forties; he joined the Swedish Academy in 1962.
Ernst Enno
Ernst Enno (1875–1934) was an Estonian poet and short prose writer, one of the first Estonian symbolists, founder of the mystical tradition in Estonian poetry, and a notable children's poet.
Ernst von der Recke
Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) was a Danish poet, playwright, and metrist whose lyrical drama Bertran de Born was a great success at the Royal Theatre in 1873.
Esaias Tegnér
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) was a Swedish poet, professor of Greek at Lund University, and bishop of Växjö, best known for the verse cycle Frithiofs saga.
Faustas Kirša
Faustas Kirša (1891–1964) was a Lithuanian poet, publicist, and translator, the leading intellectual symbolist in interwar Lithuanian poetry and author of the satirical masterpiece Pelenai (Ashes).
Georg Johannesen
Georg Johannesen (1931–2005) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and literary scholar known for his society-critical essays and as Norway's first professor of rhetoric, at the University of Bergen.
Göran Sonnevi
Göran Sonnevi, born in 1939, is a Swedish poet and translator whose 1965 poem on the Vietnam War made him a voice of left-wing political poetry.
Göran Tunström
Göran Tunström (1937–2000) was a Swedish poet and novelist whose autobiographical, magical realist work is largely set in Sunne, Värmland; his novel Juloratoriet won the 1984 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Gunnar Ekelöf
Gunnar Ekelöf, a Swedish poet and Swedish Academy member, is known for introducing surrealism and modernism to Swedish poetry, and received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1966.
Gunvor Hofmo
Gunvor Hofmo (1921–1995) was a Norwegian lyrical modernist poet whose work is marked by the war and the loss of Ruth Maier, deported to Auschwitz in 1942.
Gustaf Fröding
Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) was a Swedish poet from Värmland, regarded as the foremost renewer of Swedish lyric style; his 1891 debut Guitarr och dragharmonika sold 5,000 copies in five years.
Gustav Suits
Gustav Suits (1883–1956) was an Estonian poet and scholar who led the Noor-Eesti movement, wrote the symbolist collection Tuulemaa (1913), and became the first professor of Estonian literature, dying in exile in Stockholm.
Halfdan Rasmussen
Halfdan Rasmussen (1915–2002) was a Danish poet known for humorous nonsense verse and children's rhymes, including the alphabet book Halfdans ABC, and for socially engaged adult poetry.
Halldis Moren Vesaas
Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907–1995) was a Norwegian poet and translator writing in Nynorsk, counted among Norway's most read poets; she translated over fifty stage works into Nynorsk.
Hans Børli
Hans Børli (1918–1989) was a Norwegian poet, author, and timber cutter who lived in Eidskog, Norway, and is known as the poet of the forest.
Hans Henrik Holm
Hans Henrik Holm (1896–1980) was a Norwegian poet and folk-life researcher who wrote in difficult archaic Nynorsk, debuting with the lyrical epic Jonsoknatt in 1933.
Heiti Talvik
Heiti Talvik was an Estonian poet, known as the intellectual leader of the Arbujad literary group. He published Palavik (1934) and Kohtupäev (1937) before being arrested by the Soviets in 1945.
Henrik Wergeland
Henrik Wergeland (1808–1845) was a Norwegian poet, playwright, editor, and public debater central to Norwegian nation-building, language reform, and popular education, and Norway's first national archivist.
Henrikas Radauskas
Henrikas Radauskas (1910–1970) was a Lithuanian poet and translator, generally ranked among the major Lithuanian poets of the twentieth century, whose polished, anti-lyrical work reshaped Lithuanian poetry in exile.
Herman Wildenvey
Herman Wildenvey (1885–1959), born Herman Theodor Portaas, was a Norwegian lyric poet who brought a new colloquial voice to Norwegian poetry from his debut in 1907.
Holger Drachmann
Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) was a Danish poet, playwright, novelist, and marine painter, one of the first artists of the Skagen colony, best known for "Midsommersangen" (1885).
Imants Ziedonis
Imants Ziedonis (1933–2013) was a Latvian poet and prose writer, one of the most widely read Latvian poets of the late 20th century, creator of the short prose form he called epiphanies.
Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen (1935–2009) was a Danish poet, novelist, and essayist regarded as Denmark's leading poetic experimentalist, known for det (1969), the Fibonacci-structured alfabet (1981), and the sonnet crown Sommerfugledalen (1991).
Inger Hagerup
Inger Hagerup (1905–1985) was a Norwegian poet, author, and translator best known for the resistance poem "Aust-Vågøy", circulated illegally during the occupation, and children's classics like Så rart.
Jaan Kaplinski
Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021) was an Estonian poet, philosopher, translator, and politician, a leading figure of the 1960s Estonian poetry revival, nominated several times for the Nobel Prize.
Jan Erik Vold
Jan Erik Vold, born 1939 in Oslo, is a Norwegian modernist poet and translator who debuted in 1965 and became a central figure of the Profil generation.
Janina Degutytė
Janina Degutytė (1928–1990) was a Lithuanian lyric poet, translator, and children's author who published nine poetry collections from 1959 to 1984 and won the 1968 LSSR State Prize.