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Olzhas Suleimenov
Olzhas Suleimenov (Олжас Сүлейменов), born 1936 in Almaty, is a Kazakh poet and linguist whose 1975 book AZ i IA sparked a major Soviet literary scandal.
Otokar Březina
Otokar Březina, born Václav Jebavý, was a Czech lyric poet, essayist, and schoolteacher who led Czech symbolism with five poetry collections written between 1895 and 1901.
Oton Župančič
Oton Župančič (1878–1949) was a Slovenian poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator, a leading figure of the Slovenian moderna and, with Ivan Cankar, an authority of his generation.
Ovid Densusianu
Ovid Densusianu (Ovid Densușianu) was a Romanian philologist, linguist, and poet, a professor at the University of Bucharest who founded the Bucharest linguistic school and promoted symbolism.
Pashko Vasa
Pashko Vasa (1825–1892) was an Albanian writer and Ottoman administrator, a leading ideologue of the Albanian National Renaissance and author of the patriotic poem "O moj Shqypni."
Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Tychyna (Павло Тичина, 1891–1967) was a Ukrainian modernist poet, translator, and scholar whose 1918 collection Clarinets of the Sun created clarinetism, though he later produced Soviet conformist verse.
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, born Pavol Országh, was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and lawyer (1849–1921) whose Realist work laid the foundations of modern Slovak poetry.
Pencho Slaveykov
Pencho Slaveykov (Пенчо П. Славейков, 1866–1912) was a Bulgarian modernist poet, essayist, and translator, son of the writer Petko Slaveykov, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Petar Preradović
Petar Preradović (1818–1872) was a Croatian poet and officer in the Austrian army who ended his career as a general, a central figure of the Illyrian movement alongside Ivan Mažuranić and Stanko Vraz.
Petko Slaveykov
Petko Slaveykov (Петко Рачов Славейков, 1827–1895) was a Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist, and politician, a central figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and father of poet Pencho Slaveykov.
Petrus Brovka
Petrus Brovka, born Pyotr Ustinavich Brouka (1905–1980), was a Belarusian Soviet poet who won the Lenin Prize and twice the Stalin Prize, and edited the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia.
Peyo Yavorov
Peyo Yavorov (Пейо Яворов; born Peyo Totev Kracholov, 1878–1914) was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet and playwright, a founder of Bulgarian symbolism and an IMARO revolutionary.
Pimen Panchenko
Pimen Panchenko (Пімен Панчанка) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and journalist who served as a war correspondent and was named People's Poet of Belarus in 1973.
Propala hramota
Propala hramota (Пропала грамота, "The Lost Charter") was an avant-garde group of three Kyiv poets, Yurko Pozayak, Viktor Nedostup, and Semen Lyboń, active during perestroika in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Pyotr Vyazemsky
Pyotr Vyazemsky (Пётр Вяземский), 1792–1878, was a Russian poet, literary critic, and statesman who co-founded the Arzamas society, befriended Pushkin, and chaired the Russian Historical Society.
Pyotr Yershov
Pyotr Yershov (Пётр Ершов, 1815–1869) was a Russian writer best known for the verse fairy tale Konyok-Gorbunok, which he wrote as a student in 1834.
Radoy Ralin
Radoy Ralin (Радой Ралин) was the pen name of Dimitar Stefanov Stoyanov, a Bulgarian poet and satirist considered the most prominent epigrammatist in Bulgarian poetry.
Rainis
Rainis, born Jānis Pliekšāns (1865–1929), was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, regarded as a central creator of Latvian national identity who later served as Minister of Education.
Ryhor Baradulin
Ryhor Baradulin (Рыгор Барадулін; 1935–2014) was a Belarusian lyric poet, essayist, and translator who published more than 70 collections and was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sándor Kisfaludy
Sándor Kisfaludy (Kisfaludy Sándor, 1772 to 1844) was a Hungarian poet and playwright whose Himfy poems made him the most renowned Hungarian poet of the early 19th century.
Sándor Weöres
Sándor Weöres (Weöres Sándor) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and playwright, born in 1913 and counted among the most significant Hungarian poets of the twentieth century.
Sasha Cherny
Sasha Cherny (Саша Чёрный), pen name of Alexander Glikberg (1880–1932), was a Russian satirical poet, star of the journal Satirikon, and later a children's writer in emigration.
Semyon Nadson
Semyon Nadson (Семён Надсон) was a Russian poet whose melancholic civic verse made him the most popular lyric poet of the 1880s; he died of tuberculosis at 24.
Sergey Gorodetsky
Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, translator, playwright, and critic who co-founded the acmeist movement with Nikolai Gumilev, active from 1907 to 1967.
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Zhadan (Сергій Жадан), born 1974 in Starobilsk and based in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian poet and novelist whose books include Voroshilovgrad, Mesopotamia, and The Orphanage.
Silva Kaputikyan
Silva Kaputikyan (Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան), real name Sirvard, was an Armenian poet and public figure, born and died in Yerevan, best known for the poem "A Word to My Son."
Simon Gregorčič
Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906) was a Slovenian poet and Catholic priest, nicknamed the nightingale of Gorica, whose four volumes of verse, including the ode "Soči", made him Slovenia's most musical poet.
Srečko Kosovel
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) was a Slovenian poet, a central figure of Slovenian modern poetry and the avant-garde, who left over 1,000 poems before dying at 22.
Stoyan Mihaylovski
Stoyan Mihaylovski (Стоян Михайловски), 1856–1927, was a Bulgarian writer, satirical poet, teacher, and political figure, author of "Varvi, narode vazrodeni," the hymn sung every 24 May.
Szymon Szymonowic
Szymon Szymonowic, also known as Simon Simonides, was a Polish Renaissance humanist and bilingual poet (1558 to 1629) whose 1614 collection Sielanki founded the Polish pastoral idyll and who helped organize the Zamość Academy.