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George Coșbuc
George Coșbuc (1866–1918) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist from Transylvania, best remembered for verses about rural life and Romanian translations of Homer, Virgil, and Dante.
George Topîrceanu
George Topîrceanu (1886–1937) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist known for his humorous and parodic verse, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
Georgi Rakovski
Georgi Rakovski (Георги С. Раковски), born Subi Stoykov Popovich in 1821, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and writer who founded the organized national-liberation movement against Ottoman rule.
Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi (1788–1869) was a Moldavian and Romanian scholar, poet, journalist, and engineer who founded Romanian-language education, the press, and theater in Moldavia, publishing the newspaper Albina românească.
Gjergj Fishta
Gjergj Fishta (1871–1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, and politician, author of the national epic Lahuta e Malcís, banned under communism and rehabilitated in the 1990s.
Grigol Orbeliani
Grigol Orbeliani (გრიგოლ ორბელიანი, 1804–1883) was a Georgian Romantic poet and Imperial Russian general who took part in the 1832 independence plot and later served as governor-general of Tiflis.
Grigor Parlichev
Grigor Parlichev (1830–1893) was a writer and teacher from Ohrid who won the 1860 Athens poetry prize and made the first Bulgarian translation of Homer's Iliad.
Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés, born Illés Gyula, was a leading Hungarian poet, novelist, and dissident whose People of the Puszta (1936) exposed the plight of landless farm servants.
Hristo Smirnenski
Hristo Smirnenski (Христо Смирненски) was the pen name of Bulgarian poet Hristo Dimitrov Izmirliev (1898–1923), regarded as the first representative of proletarian literature in Bulgaria.
Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Ienăchiță Văcărescu (c. 1740 – 1797) was a Wallachian boyar poet, philologist, and historian who wrote one of the first printed Romanian grammars, published at Râmnic in 1787.
Igor Severyanin
Igor Severyanin (Игорь Северянин), pen name of Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev, was a Russian poet who founded egofuturism and was elected "King of Poets" in Moscow in 1918.
Ihor Kalynets
Ihor Kalynets (Ігор Калинець, 1939–2025) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and dissident who served six years in Soviet labor camps and received the Shevchenko Prize in 1992.
Imre Madách
Imre Madách (Madách Imre, 1823–1864) was a Hungarian poet and country gentleman, member of Parliament, and author of the 1861 dramatic poem The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája), his major work.
Innokenty Annensky
Innokenty Annensky (Иннокентий Анненский) was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and educator at Tsarskoye Selo whose fame came almost entirely after his sudden death in 1909.
Ivan Dmitriev
Ivan Dmitriev (Иван Иванович Дмитриев, 1760–1837) was a Russian poet and fabulist of the sentimental school who served as Minister of Justice from 1810 to 1814.
Ivan Drach
Ivan Drach (Іван Драч) was a Ukrainian poet and political leader who headed the Popular Movement of Ukraine and received the title Hero of Ukraine in 2006.
Ivan Kotliarevsky
Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769–1838) was a Ukrainian poet and playwright regarded as the founder of modern Ukrainian literature and literary language, known for the vernacular poem Eneida.
Ivan Krylov
Ivan Krylov (Иван Андреевич Крылов), 1769 to 1844, was a Russian writer and fabulist who wrote more than 200 fables in nine books; many lines entered Russian speech as proverbs.
Ivan Mažuranić
Ivan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, lawyer, and politician who served as ban (governor) of Croatia from 1873 to 1880, the first commoner to hold the office.
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish Baroque poet and diplomat, Grand Treasurer of the Crown, often considered the best poet of the Polish Baroque, and a paid agent of Louis XIV.
Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár (1793–1852) was a Slovak poet, Lutheran pastor, and Slavic scholar whose sonnet cycle Slávy dcera became a foundation of modern Slovak poetry and voiced Slavic reciprocity.
Jan Neruda
Jan Neruda (1834–1891) was a Czech poet, journalist, and critic who led the Májovci generation and is best known for his 1878 story collection Tales of the Little Quarter.
Janko Kráľ
Janko Kráľ was a Slovak Romantic poet of the Štúr generation, born in 1822, best known for the ballad Zakliata panna vo Váhu a divný Janko of 1844.
János Arany
János Arany (1817–1882) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and scholar whose verse epic Toldi (1847) won national fame, and whose ballads and Shakespeare translations are classics.
János Batsányi
János Batsányi, also spelled Bacsányi (1763–1845), was a Hungarian Enlightenment poet and editor who founded the Magyar Museum, the first literary journal in Hungarian, and was imprisoned for his revolutionary verse.
János Pilinszky
János Pilinszky (Pilinszky János, 1921–1981) was a Hungarian poet and essayist, a Kossuth Prize winner whose poetry centers on Second World War trauma and God's silence.
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech poet and journalist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Czech to receive it. A Charter 77 signatory, he wrote nearly thirty volumes of poetry over six decades.
Jaroslav Vrchlický
Jaroslav Vrchlický, born Emil Frída, was a Czech poet, dramatist, and translator who published about 270 books, including more than 80 poetry collections, and died in 1912.
Josef Svatopluk Machar
Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942) was a Czech poet, publicist, and politician, the leading representative of Czech poetic realism, co-author of the 1895 Česká moderna manifesto, and later inspector general of the Czechoslovak army.
Jovan Dučić
Jovan Dučić (Јован Дучић, 1871–1943) was a Serbian poet and career diplomat born near Trebinje, a leading figure of Serbian Symbolism and the first ambassador in Yugoslav diplomatic history.