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Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle (1884–1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, novelist, playwright, and translator, born in Montevideo and counted among the major French poets of the twentieth century.
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.
Julius Gersdorff
Julius Gersdorff was a German poet and songwriter, born in Stettin in 1849, who was nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of 600 to 700 songs.
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.
Jürgen Becker
Jürgen Becker (1932–2024) was a German writer, poet, and radio drama author based in Cologne who won the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germany's richest literary award, in 2014.
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.
K. Schippers
K. Schippers, the pseudonym of Gerard Stigter, was a Dutch writer and art critic who co-founded Barbarber and used the readymade in poetry.
Kaarlo Sarkia
Kaarlo Sarkia, born Kaarlo Teodor Sulin, was a Finnish lyric poet and translator of the interwar Tulenkantajat generation; Unen kaivo (1936) is his principal work.
Kalju Lepik
Kalju Lepik (1920–1999) was an Estonian poet exiled in Stockholm from 1944, one of the best-known Estonian poets of the later 20th century, with work translated into a dozen languages.
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).
Karel van de Woestijne
Karel van de Woestijne (1878–1929) was a Flemish poet, prose writer, and art and literary critic from Ghent, regarded as the leading Dutch-language symbolist in Flanders and its first major poet after Guido Gezelle.
Karin Boye
Karin Maria Boye (1900–1941) was a Swedish poet, novelist, critic, and translator, one of the defining voices of Swedish modernism, best known internationally for the dystopian novel Kallocain (1940).
Karl Vennberg
Karl Gunnar Vennberg (1910–1995) was a Swedish poet and critic, a leading figure of the 1940s modernist fyrtiotalism movement, and winner of the 1972 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Kārlis Skalbe
Kārlis Skalbe (1879–1945) was a Latvian poet, writer, and politician best known as the master of the Latvian literary fairy tale and author of Winter Tales.
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.
Katarina Frostenson
Katarina Frostenson (Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault, born 1953) is a Swedish poet and playwright, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019, who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2016.
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.
Kazys Boruta
Kazys Boruta (1905–1965) was a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, and translator whose novels Mediniai stebuklai (1938) and Baltaragio malūnas (1945) founded the Lithuanian poetic novel.
Kersti Merilaas
Kersti Merilaas, born Eugenie Moorberg, was an Estonian poet, playwright, and children's author who debuted with Maantee tuuled in 1938 as a member of the Arbujad poets.
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.
Kjell Espmark
Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1981 who chaired its Nobel Committee for many years.
Klabund
Klabund was the pen name of Alfred Georg Hermann Henschke (1890–1928), a German poet, dramatist, and translator who adapted Asian literature; his play Der Kreidekreis (1925) later inspired Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth, full name Claus Johannes Groth, was a German poet and philologist from Heide who established Low German as a literary language with his 1852 collection Quickborn.
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.
Knuts Skujenieks
Knuts Skujenieks (1936–2022) was a Latvian poet and translator who wrote more than 800 poems during a seven-year sentence in Soviet labor camps in Mordovia, unpublished until 1990.