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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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Feliński (1771–1820) was a Polish poet, dramatist, translator, and educator, known for the tragedy Barbara Radziwiłłówna and the hymn "Boże, coś Polskę", which became a national religious song.
Andrei Voznesensky
Andrei Voznesensky (Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky) was a Soviet Russian poet and trained architect who filled stadiums during the Khrushchev Thaw, drawing official censure and mass popularity.
Andrii Malyshko
Andrii Malyshko (1912–1970) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and translator whose song Pisnia pro rushnyk is so widely sung many take it for a folk song.
Antanas Baranauskas
Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop, poet, and linguist, best known for Anykščių šilelis, the most famous work of 19th-century Lithuanian poetry, and for classifying Lithuanian dialects.
Anton Aškerc
Anton Aškerc (1856–1912) was a Slovene poet, priest, and editor, published under the pseudonym Gorazd, and served as the first city archivist of Ljubljana from 1898.
Antun Gustav Matoš
Antun Gustav Matoš (1873–1914) was a Croatian writer, poet, and critic, the central figure of Croatian Moderna, whose 1892 story Moć savjesti began the period.
Apollon Grigoryev
Apollon Grigoryev, also known as Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (Аполлон Александрович Григорьев), was a Russian poet and literary and theater critic, 1822–1864, who created "organic criticism" and worked with Dostoevsky on the journals Vremia and Epokha.
Apollon Maykov
Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) was a Russian poet of the art-for-art's-sake school, elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1853 and awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1882 for Two Worlds.
Arkadz Kuleshou
Arkadz Kuleshou (Аркадзь Куляшоў, 1914–1978) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR, best known for the wartime poem Stsyah bryhady.
Asdreni
Asdreni, pen name of Aleksandër Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), was an Albanian poet who wrote the lyrics of the Albanian national anthem and spent most of his life in exile in Romania.
Aspazija
Aspazija was the pen name of Johanna Rozenberga (1865–1943), a Latvian poet, playwright, and publicist who founded modern Latvian poetry and drama, and the wife of Rainis.
Atanas Dalchev
Atanas Dalchev (Атанас Далчев, 1904–1978) was a Bulgarian poet, translator, and critic known as "the poet-philosopher" and one of the central figures of Bulgarian post-symbolist modernism.
Bálint Balassi
Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) was a Hungarian nobleman, soldier, and poet, considered the first great classic of Hungarian-language poetry, known for love and religious verse and the nine-line Balassi stanza.
Bella Akhmadulina
Bella Akhmadulina, full name Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937–2010), was a Russian poet of the Thaw-generation shestidesyatniki who published her first verses in 1955 and 33 collections.
Bernardas Brazdžionis
Bernardas Brazdžionis, pen name Vytė Nemunėlis, was a Lithuanian poet and editor, a classic of Lithuanian literature who lived in exile in the United States from 1949.
Bohdan Lepky
Bohdan Lepky (Богдан Лепкий, 1872–1941) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and teacher from Galicia, best known for his historical novels about Hetman Mazepa and the song "Zhuravli".
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (Богдан-Ігор Антонич, 1909–1937) was a Ukrainian poet of Lemko origin whose five collections, fusing pagan and Christian imagery, influenced the Kyiv school of the 1960s.
Boris Ryzhy
Boris Ryzhy (Борис Рыжий, 1974–2001) was a Russian poet from Yekaterinburg whose verse fused classical form with the industrial Urals; he won the AntiBooker prize in 1999.
Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Okudzhava (Булат Окуджава) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter, regarded as a founder of the Russian author song; his songs like "Song about the Arbat" spread on tape recordings.