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Jānis Sudrabkalns
Jānis Sudrabkalns was the pen name of the Latvian poet Arvīds Sudrabkalns (1894–1975), a leading interwar and Soviet-era poet, People's Poet of the Latvian SSR in 1947.
Jens Baggesen
Jens Baggesen (Jens Immanuel Baggesen, 1764–1826) was a Danish poet and prose writer of European outlook who wrote partly in German, best remembered for the travel work Labyrinten.
Jeppe Aakjær
Jeppe Aakjær, born Jeppe Jensen (1866–1930), was a Danish poet and novelist from Jutland known for nature poetry and social realism about the rural poor.
Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro, born 1944 in Landskrona, is a Swedish poet and classical philologist who has lived in Paris since the 1970s and joined the Swedish Academy in 2006.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) was a Finland-Swedish poet regarded as Finland's national poet, whose war cycle Fänrik Ståls sägner supplied the national epic and whose poem "Vårt land" became the Finnish national anthem.
Johan Olof Wallin
Johan Olof Wallin (1779–1839) was a Swedish clergyman, poet, and hymn writer, archbishop of Uppsala from 1837 and principal author of the 1819 Swedish hymnal.
Johan Sebastian Welhaven
Johan Sebastian Welhaven was a Norwegian poet, critic, and professor of philosophy in Oslo, a central figure of Norwegian Romanticism and chief opponent of Henrik Wergeland in the feuds of the 1830s.
Johannes Ewald
Johannes Ewald (1743–1781) was a Danish poet and dramatist, considered his country's leading lyricist, who wrote the royal anthem "Kong Christian stod ved høien Mast".
Johannes Jørgensen
Johannes Jørgensen, born and died in Svendborg, was a Danish lyric poet and critic who introduced Symbolism to Denmark and converted to Catholicism in 1896.
Jóhannes úr Kötlum
Jóhannes úr Kötlum, born Jóhannes Bjarni Jónasson (1899–1972), was an Icelandic poet, novelist, translator, and member of parliament, best known internationally for his 1932 children's verse book Jólin koma.
Jón Þorláksson
Jón Þorláksson á Bægisá (1744–1819) was an Icelandic poet and priest who pioneered the Enlightenment in Iceland, best known for translating Milton's Paradise Lost into Icelandic.
Jonas Aistis
Jonas Aistis (1904–1973), born Jonas Aleksandravičius, was a Lithuanian lyric poet and essayist, a leading figure of the interwar neoromantic generation who lived in exile in the United States.
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807–1845) was an Icelandic poet and natural scientist who co-founded the journal Fjölnir and is regarded as the father of Icelandic Romanticism and one of Iceland's greatest poets.
Juhan Liiv
Juhan Liiv (1864–1913) was an Estonian poet and prose writer, regarded as the first important innovator of Estonian poetry, whose novella Vari is the first realistic Estonian novella.
Juhan Smuul
Juhan Smuul, born Johannes Schmuul (1922–1971), was an Estonian poet, prose writer, and playwright, the leading literary figure of Soviet Estonia and Writers' Union chairman from 1953.
Kaarlo Sarkia
Kaarlo Sarkia, born Kaarlo Teodor Sulin, was a Finnish lyric poet and translator of the interwar Tulenkantajat generation; Unen kaivo (1936) is his principal work.
Kalju Lepik
Kalju Lepik (1920–1999) was an Estonian poet exiled in Stockholm from 1944, one of the best-known Estonian poets of the later 20th century, with work translated into a dozen languages.
Karin Boye
Karin Maria Boye (1900–1941) was a Swedish poet, novelist, critic, and translator, one of the defining voices of Swedish modernism, best known internationally for the dystopian novel Kallocain (1940).
Karl Vennberg
Karl Gunnar Vennberg (1910–1995) was a Swedish poet and critic, a leading figure of the 1940s modernist fyrtiotalism movement, and winner of the 1972 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Kārlis Skalbe
Kārlis Skalbe (1879–1945) was a Latvian poet, writer, and politician best known as the master of the Latvian literary fairy tale and author of Winter Tales.
Katarina Frostenson
Katarina Frostenson (Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault, born 1953) is a Swedish poet and playwright, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019, who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2016.
Kazys Boruta
Kazys Boruta (1905–1965) was a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, and translator whose novels Mediniai stebuklai (1938) and Baltaragio malūnas (1945) founded the Lithuanian poetic novel.
Kersti Merilaas
Kersti Merilaas, born Eugenie Moorberg, was an Estonian poet, playwright, and children's author who debuted with Maantee tuuled in 1938 as a member of the Arbujad poets.
Kjell Espmark
Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1981 who chaired its Nobel Committee for many years.
Knuts Skujenieks
Knuts Skujenieks (1936–2022) was a Latvian poet and translator who wrote more than 800 poems during a seven-year sentence in Soviet labor camps in Mordovia, unpublished until 1990.
Kolbein Falkeid
Kolbein Falkeid (1933–2021) was a Norwegian poet and lyricist from Haugesund, one of the most widely read postwar Norwegian poets, who published more than twenty collections and wrote the lyrics to Vamp's "Tir n'a Noir".
Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714–1780) was a Lutheran pastor in Prussian Lithuania whose poem Metai, written about 1760–1770, is regarded as the founding work of Lithuanian secular literature.
Leons Briedis
Leons Briedis (1949–2020) was a Latvian poet, novelist, essayist, critic, publisher, and translator from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages, Swahili, and Albanian, whose vast translation work shaped Latvian literary culture.
Lydia Koidula
Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (1843–1886), was an Estonian national poet and dramatist whose patriotic poem "Mu isamaa on minu arm" became an unofficial anthem.
Maironis
Maironis, pen name of Jonas Mačiulis (1862–1932), was a Lithuanian poet and Catholic priest regarded as the most prominent Lithuanian poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.