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Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose stripped-down postwar verse and drama reshaped modern Polish literature; often a Nobel candidate, he was translated into 49 languages.
Teodor Trayanov
Teodor Trayanov (Теодор Траянов) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, translator, and chess administrator who, with Peyo Yavorov, is regarded as a founder of Bulgarian symbolism.
Tin Ujević
Tin Ujević, full name Augustin, was a Croatian poet, essayist, and translator born in Vrgorac in 1891, regarded as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the twentieth century.
Tsiotka
Tsiotka (Auntie) was the pen name of Aloiza Pashkevich, a Belarusian poet and revolutionary who published the poetry collections Khrest na svabodu and Skrypka belaruskaja in 1906.
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi, born Ion N. Theodorescu, was a Romanian poet and prose writer whose 1927 collection Cuvinte potrivite carried out the deepest reform of Romanian poetic language.
Uladzimir Karatkievich
Uladzimir Karatkievich (Уладзі́мір Сямё́навіч Каратке́віч, 1930–1984) was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and dramatist regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature, known for the Gothic novella King Stakh's Wild Hunt.
Valentin Vodnik
Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819) was a Slovene poet, priest, and journalist of the Enlightenment, regarded as the first Slovene secular poet and author of the first Slovene poetry collection, newspaper, and grammar.
Valery Bryusov
Valery Bryusov (Валерий Брюсов) was a Russian poet, prose writer, and translator who founded and led Russian symbolism, making it a coherent literary movement from the 1890s onward.
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890) was a Romanian poet, dramatist, folklorist, politician, and diplomat, a leading figure of the 1848 generation who wrote the Pasteluri and Chirița comedies and campaigned for the union of the Romanian Principalities.
Vasily Trediakovsky
Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1769) was a Russian poet and philologist who began the reform of Russian versification and was the first Russian professor at the Academy of Sciences.
Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Василий Жуковский, 1783–1852) was a Russian poet and translator regarded as the founder of Romanticism in Russian poetry and tutor of Alexander II.
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus (Василь Стус) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and human rights activist of the sixtiers generation who died in 1985 as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.
Vasyl Symonenko
Vasyl Symonenko (Василь Симоненко) was a Ukrainian poet and dissident whose samvydav poetry largely marks the beginning of the Ukrainian opposition movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Vera Inber
Vera Inber (Вера Инбер), born Vera Shpentser, was a Russian and Soviet poet whose diary Pochti tri goda recorded the nearly three years she spent in blockaded Leningrad.
Vítězslav Nezval
Vítězslav Nezval (1900–1958) was a Czech poet, writer, and translator who co-founded poetism in the 1920s, founded the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia in 1934, and ranks among the foremost Czech poets of the twentieth century.
Vladimir Nazor
Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949) was a Croatian poet, writer, and politician, author of Veli Jože, who joined the partisans in 1942 and became president of ZAVNOH.
Vladislav Khodasevich
Vladislav Khodasevich, born in Moscow in 1886 and died in 1939, was a Russian poet and Pushkin scholar who became the leading literary critic of the Russian emigration.
Vladislav Petković Dis
Vladislav Petković Dis (Владислав Петковић Дис; 1880–1917) was a Serbian poet of Serbian modernism who introduced dreams and the subconscious into Serbian lyric poetry, publishing Drowned Souls in 1911.
Volodymyr Sosiura
Volodymyr Sosiura (Володимир Сосюра, 1898–1965) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and one of the most popular of the twentieth century, author of the patriotic poem "Liubit Ukrainu!" and winner of the Stalin Prize in 1948.
Wacław Potocki
Wacław Potocki (1621–1696) was a Polish Baroque poet, satirist, and moralist who lived near Biecz in Lesser Poland and wrote the epic The Chocim War Transaction.
Wilhelm Küchelbecker
Wilhelm Küchelbecker (Вильгельм Кюхельбекер) was a Russian poet and playwright of German descent, a classmate of Pushkin who took part in the Decembrist uprising of 1825 and died in Siberian exile in 1846.
Władysław Syrokomla
Władysław Syrokomla, the pen name of Ludwik Kondratowicz (1823–1862), was a Polish-language Romantic poet and translator who lived in present-day Belarus and Lithuania and wrote the verse tales called gawędy.
Yakov Polonsky
Yakov Polonsky (Яков Петрович Полонский) was a Russian poet and prose writer who lived from 1819 to 1898, known for the lyric "My campfire shines in the mist."
Yakub Kolas
Yakub Kolas (Якуб Колас), born Kanstantsin Mitskevich (1882–1956), was a Belarusian poet and prose writer, a founder of modern Belarusian literature and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
Yanka Kupala
Yanka Kupala, pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (1882–1942), was a Belarusian poet and playwright, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose collections include Zhaleyka and Guslyar.
Yanka Sipakou
Yanka Sipakou (Янка Сіпакоў), pen name of Ivan Danilavich Sipakou (1936–2011), was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and translator known for village prose and a Belarusian Divine Comedy.
Yeghishe Charents
Yeghishe Charents (Եղիշե Չարենց), born Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonian, was an Armenian poet and major figure of twentieth-century Armenian poetry, known for "I love my sweet Armenia" and Land of Nairi.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Yevgeny Baratynsky, also spelled Evgeny Boratynsky, was a Russian poet of the Pushkin era (1800 to 1844), ranked after Pushkin as the 'poet of thought' for his philosophical verse.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Евгений Евтушенко) was a Soviet and Russian poet of the Thaw generation, famous for civic poems like "Babii Yar" and mass public readings.
Yevhen Malaniuk
Yevhen Malaniuk (Євген Маланюк) was a Ukrainian émigré poet of the Prague school and a former UNR army officer, banned in Soviet Ukraine for about seventy years.