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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Јован Јовановић Змај) was a Serbian poet and physician who laid the foundations of Serbian children's poetry; he also edited the satirical magazine Zmaj.
József Gvadányi
József Gvadányi was a Hungarian baroque satirical poet and Habsburg cavalry general who fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War before becoming a prolific author in his sixties.
Judita Vaičiūnaitė
Judita Vaičiūnaitė (1937–2001) was a Lithuanian poet and translator known as one of the first real city poets, with Vilnius at the center of her work.
Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) was a Polish poet, satirist, and translator from Łódź, co-founder of the interwar Skamander group and one of interwar Poland's most popular poets.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1757 or 1758 – 1841) was a Polish poet, playwright, and political activist of the Enlightenment, secretary to Tadeusz Kościuszko in the 1794 uprising.
Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) was a Polish Romantic poet, playwright, and philosopher, one of the three national bards alongside Adam Mickiewicz, and the author of Kordian, Balladyna, and Król-Duch.
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944) was a Lithuanian and Russian symbolist poet, translator, and diplomat who served as Lithuania's envoy to the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1939.
Justinas Marcinkevičius
Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930–2011) was a Lithuanian poet, dramatist, and translator, regarded as the poet of the Nation, whose verse-drama trilogy recreated the birth of Lithuanian statehood and who later helped lead the Sąjūdis independence movement.
Kandrat Krapiva
Kandrat Krapiva (Кандрат Крапіва), real name Kandrat Atrakhovich, was a Belarusian Soviet satirical poet, fabulist, and playwright who won two Stalin Prizes and the USSR State Prize.
Karel Hynek Mácha
Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836) was a Czech Romantic poet, prose writer, and dramatist, founder of modern Czech poetry, best known for the lyric-epic poem Máj (1836), published shortly before his death at 25.
Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) was a Czech poet, folklorist, and archivist, a leading figure of the Czech National Revival best known for the ballad collection Kytice (1853).
Károly Kisfaludy
Károly Kisfaludy (Kisfaludy Károly, 1788–1830) was a Hungarian poet, dramatist, and painter, a founder of Hungarian national romanticism and the Hungarian comedy who edited the almanac Aurora.
Karus Kahaniec
Karus Kahaniec (Belarusian: Карусь Каганец), pen name of Kazimir Kastravitski (1868–1918), was a Belarusian poet, dramatist, and author of the first Belarusian primer, and a relative of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Kazys Binkis
Kazys Binkis (1893–1942) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, and journalist who founded the Four Winds avant-garde movement in the 1920s, and with his wife sheltered Jews during the Second World War.
Kiril Hristov
Kiril Hristov (Кирил Христов, 1875–1944) was a Bulgarian poet, playwright, and translator born in Stara Zagora, one of the most popular Bulgarian poets of the early twentieth century.
Klāvs Elsbergs
Klāvs Elsbergs (1959–1987) was a Latvian poet, translator, and editor, the son of poet Vizma Belševica, who published two poetry collections and died at 28 in unclarified circumstances.
Kočo Racin
Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), born Kosta Solev Apostolov, was a Macedonian poet and communist revolutionary whose 1939 collection Beli mugri is considered the cornerstone of modern Macedonian poetry.
Konstancja Benisławska
Konstancja Benisławska, née Ryck (1747–1806), was a Polish-language poet of the Polish Livonian nobility, author of the religious verse collection Pieśni sobie śpiewane, published in Vilnius in 1776.
Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942) was a Russian Symbolist poet, perhaps the best-known living Russian poet of his era, who published 29 books and translated Poe, Shelley, and Whitman.
Konstantin Miladinov
Konstantin Miladinov (Константин Миладинов, 1830 to January 1862) was a poet and folklorist from Struga who compiled Bulgarian Folk Songs with his brother Dimitar and wrote the lyric T'ga za jug.
Konstantin Simonov
Konstantin Simonov (Константин Симонов) was a Soviet poet, novelist, and war correspondent whose 1941 lyric "Wait for Me" became a defining poem of the war against Nazi Germany.
Konstantin Sluchevsky
Konstantin Sluchevsky (Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky; 1837–1904) was a Russian poet and prose writer whose dark, philosophical verse was mocked by critics but later claimed by the Symbolists, especially Bryusov.
Konstantin Velichkov
Konstantin Velichkov (Константин Величков, 1855–1907) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, painter, and statesman who helped prepare the 1876 April Uprising and served as Minister of National Education from 1894.
Larysa Hienijuš
Larysa Hienijuš (Ларыса Геніюш), born Miklaševič, was a Belarusian poet and General Secretary of the exiled Belarusian government; sentenced in 1949 to 25 years in Gulag camps, she died in 1983.
Leopold Staff
Leopold Staff (1878–1957) was a Polish poet, dramatist, and translator ranked with Julian Tuwim and Bolesław Leśmian among the greatest Polish poets of the 20th century.
Lesya Ukrainka
Lesya Ukrainka, pen name of Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka, was a Ukrainian poet and playwright (1871–1913) who developed the dramatic poem and wrote The Forest Song.
Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko (Ліна Костенко), born 19 March 1930, is a Ukrainian poet and a leading figure of the shistdesiatnyky, whose works include Marusia Churai (1979) and Berestechko (1999).
Maksim Bahdanovich
Maksim Bahdanovich (Belarusian: Максім Багдановіч, 1891–1917) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and critic, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose only lifetime collection, Vyanok, appeared in 1913.
Maksim Tank
Maksim Tank (Максі́м Танк, born Jauhen Ivanavich Skurko) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, born in 1912 and one of the most significant twentieth-century Belarusian poets.
Maksym Rylsky
Maksym Rylsky (Максим Рильський) was a Ukrainian lyric poet, translator, and academician, born and died in Kyiv, known as a master of classical verse and the sonnet.