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Yevhen Pluzhnyk
Yevhen Pluzhnyk (Євген Плужник) was a Ukrainian poet and dramatist of the Executed Renaissance, arrested in the Stalinist terror of 1934 and dying in prison on Solovki.
Yurii Lytvyn
Yurii Lytvyn (Юрій Литвин) was a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist who spent about 20 years as a Soviet political prisoner and died in custody in 1984.
Yuriy Andrukhovych
Yuriy Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович), born 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, a founder of Ukrainian postmodernism known for the novels Recreations, Moskoviada, and Twelve Rings.
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) was a Polish poet, playwright, and essayist born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine, best known internationally for his poetic alter ego Mr Cogito.
Zinaida Gippius
Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Гиппиус), 1869–1945, was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and prose writer who, with her husband Dmitry Merezhkovsky, hosted a famous literary salon before emigrating to Paris in 1919.
Zmicer Zhylunovich
Zmicer Zhylunovich, who wrote under the pseudonym Tsishka Hartny, was a Belarusian writer and statesman, first chairman of the provisional government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia.
Zygmunt Krasiński
Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) was a Polish Romantic poet and playwright, counted with Mickiewicz and Słowacki among Poland's three national bards, known for The Undivine Comedy.