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Maria Konopnicka
Maria Konopnicka, born Maria Wasiłowska (1842–1910), was a leading Polish poet, short-story writer, and children's author of the positivist period, also known for the patriotic poem Rota.
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945) was a Polish lyric poet and playwright of the interwar Skamander group, born in Kraków and died in exile in Manchester, England.
Markiyan Shashkevych
Markiyan Shashkevych (Маркіян Шашкевич, 1811–1843) was a Ukrainian poet and Greek Catholic priest who led the literary revival in western Ukraine and initiated the almanac Rusalka Dnistrovaia of 1837.
Martin Rázus
Martin Rázus (1888–1937) was a Slovak poet, prose writer, dramatist, journalist, Lutheran pastor, and politician who led the Slovak National Party from 1927 and sat in the Czechoslovak National Assembly.
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805) was a Hungarian poet of Debrecen, considered the greatest poet of the Hungarian Enlightenment, known for the Lilla Songs and the comic epic Dorottya.
Mihály Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty, in Hungarian Vörösmarty Mihály, was a Hungarian poet, dramatist, and critic of the Romantic movement, best known for Szózat (1836) and the epic Zalán futása.
Mikhas Charot
Mikhas Charot (Міхась Чарот), pen name of Mikhail Kudzelka, was a Belarusian poet, playwright, and editor who led the literary organization Maladniak and was shot in Minsk in 1937.
Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet, one of the most translated of his century, murdered on a death march in 1944; his last poems were found in a notebook on his exhumed body.
Miron Białoszewski
Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was a Polish poet, prose writer, and playwright, a major figure of twentieth-century Polish literature known for his experimental, colloquial poetic language.
Moscow Time (poetry group)
Moscow Time (Московское время) was a Soviet poetry group formed in Moscow in 1974, its core members Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenzheev, Alexander Soprovsky, and Alexei Tsvetkov.
Moyshe Kulbak
Moyshe Kulbak (משה קולבאַק, 1896–1937) was a Yiddish poet, novelist, and dramatist of Smorgon near Vilna, a leading modernist executed in the Stalinist purges of 1937.
Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Bazhan (Микола Бажан), 1904 to 1983, was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and Soviet political figure who won two Stalin Prizes and headed the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.
Mykola Vinhranovsky
Mykola Vinhranovsky (Микола Вінграновський, 1936–2004) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and film director, a leading figure of the Sixtiers generation who won the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.
Mykola Zerov
Mykola Zerov (Микола Зеров, 1890–1937) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and literary scholar who led the Neoclassicists, a group of poets, and was executed during the Stalinist terror.
Naim Frashëri
Naim Frashëri (1846–1900) was an Albanian poet of the national awakening, widely considered the national poet of Albania and a central figure of the Albanian Renaissance.
Naum Korzhavin
Naum Korzhavin, pen name of Naum Mandel, was a Russian dissident poet who was arrested under Stalin, emigrated to the United States in 1973, and died in 2018.
Ndre Mjeda
Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937) was an Albanian poet, Catholic priest, and linguist from Shkodër, known for Vaji i bylbylit and Juvenilia and for helping create the unified Albanian alphabet.
Nikola Furnadzhiev
Nikola Furnadzhiev (Никола Фурнаджиев) was a Bulgarian poet of September poetry, the revolutionary lyric current named for the 1923 uprising; his poem Svadba remains one of the best-known works of the period.
Nikola Vaptsarov
Nikola Vaptsarov (Никола Вапцаров) was a Bulgarian poet, marine engineer, and communist revolutionary. Executed by firing squad in Sofia in 1942, he is best known for Motor Songs (1940), his only lifetime collection.
Nikolai Klyuev
Nikolai Klyuev (Николай Алексеевич Клюев, 1884–1937) was a Russian poet of peasant origin who led the new peasant current in Silver Age poetry and was shot under Stalin.
Nikolai Nekrasov
Nikolai Nekrasov (Николай Некрасов, 1821–1877) was a Russian poet, editor, and publisher who made peasant life his central subject and ran Sovremennik, the leading literary journal of his day.
Nikolai Rubtsov
Nikolai Rubtsov (Николай Михайлович Рубцов, 1936–1971) was a Soviet Russian lyric poet, leading figure of the "quiet lyric" current, known for "Star of the Fields".
Nikolai Yazykov
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Yazykov (Николай Михайлович Языков, 1803–1846) was a Russian Romantic poet and friend of Pushkin, famed for student songs, elegies, and mastery of language.
Nikolai Zabolotsky
Nikolai Zabolotsky, born Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky (1903–1958), was a Russian Soviet poet and translator, a founder of OBERIU known for the grotesque collection Stolbtsy and clear late lyrics.
Nikolay Liliev
Nikolay Liliev (Николай Лилиев), born Nikolay Mihaylov Popivanov in 1885, was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet and National Theatre dramaturg, known for Birds in the Night.
Nikoloz Baratashvili
Nikoloz Baratashvili (ნიკოლოზ ბარათაშვილი), born in Tbilisi in 1817, was a Georgian Romantic poet considered a founder of modern Georgian literature; he died in Ganja in 1845.
Nil Hilevich
Nil Hilevich (Ніл Гілевіч; 30 September 1931 – 29 March 2016) was a Belarusian poet, folklorist, and translator named People's Poet of Belarus in 1991 who helped draft the 1990 law on languages.
Ojārs Vācietis
Ojārs Vācietis (1933–1983) was a Latvian poet, translator, and publicist who led the Soviet-era Thaw generation and was banned from publishing from 1960 to 1966.
Oleksandr Oles
Oleksandr Oles (Олександр Олесь), real name Oleksandr Kandyba, was a Ukrainian lyric poet and dramatist born in 1878 who was central to Ukrainian symbolism and died in Prague in 1944.
Olena Teliha
Olena Teliha (Олена Теліга), née Shovheniva, was a Ukrainian poet and nationalist activist who led cultural work in occupied Kyiv before her execution at Babyn Yar in 1942.