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Kočo Racin
Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), born Kosta Solev Apostolov, was a Macedonian poet and communist revolutionary whose 1939 collection Beli mugri is considered the cornerstone of modern Macedonian poetry.
Kolbein Falkeid
Kolbein Falkeid (1933–2021) was a Norwegian poet and lyricist from Haugesund, one of the most widely read postwar Norwegian poets, who published more than twenty collections and wrote the lyrics to Vamp's "Tir n'a Noir".
Konstancja Benisławska
Konstancja Benisławska, née Ryck (1747–1806), was a Polish-language poet of the Polish Livonian nobility, author of the religious verse collection Pieśni sobie śpiewane, published in Vilnius in 1776.
Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942) was a Russian Symbolist poet, perhaps the best-known living Russian poet of his era, who published 29 books and translated Poe, Shelley, and Whitman.
Konstantin Miladinov
Konstantin Miladinov (Константин Миладинов, 1830 to January 1862) was a poet and folklorist from Struga who compiled Bulgarian Folk Songs with his brother Dimitar and wrote the lyric T'ga za jug.
Konstantin Simonov
Konstantin Simonov (Константин Симонов) was a Soviet poet, novelist, and war correspondent whose 1941 lyric "Wait for Me" became a defining poem of the war against Nazi Germany.
Konstantin Sluchevsky
Konstantin Sluchevsky (Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky; 1837–1904) was a Russian poet and prose writer whose dark, philosophical verse was mocked by critics but later claimed by the Symbolists, especially Bryusov.
Konstantin Velichkov
Konstantin Velichkov (Константин Величков, 1855–1907) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, painter, and statesman who helped prepare the 1876 April Uprising and served as Minister of National Education from 1894.
Kostis Palamas
Kostis Palamas (Κωστής Παλαμάς, 1859–1943) was a Greek poet, customarily called the national poet of Greece, who wrote the Olympic Hymn for the 1896 Games.
Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714–1780) was a Lutheran pastor in Prussian Lithuania whose poem Metai, written about 1760–1770, is regarded as the founding work of Lithuanian secular literature.
Larysa Hienijuš
Larysa Hienijuš (Ларыса Геніюш), born Miklaševič, was a Belarusian poet and General Secretary of the exiled Belarusian government; sentenced in 1949 to 25 years in Gulag camps, she died in 1983.
Leo Vroman
Leo Vroman (1915–2014) was a Dutch-American poet, biologist, and artist who fled the Netherlands in 1940, later researched blood coagulation in Brooklyn, and won the P.C. Hooftprijs.
Leons Briedis
Leons Briedis (1949–2020) was a Latvian poet, novelist, essayist, critic, publisher, and translator from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages, Swahili, and Albanian, whose vast translation work shaped Latvian literary culture.
Leopold Staff
Leopold Staff (1878–1957) was a Polish poet, dramatist, and translator ranked with Julian Tuwim and Bolesław Leśmian among the greatest Polish poets of the 20th century.
Lesya Ukrainka
Lesya Ukrainka, pen name of Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka, was a Ukrainian poet and playwright (1871–1913) who developed the dramatic poem and wrote The Forest Song.
Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko (Ліна Костенко), born 19 March 1930, is a Ukrainian poet and a leading figure of the shistdesiatnyky, whose works include Marusia Churai (1979) and Berestechko (1999).
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a French poet, novelist, and editor, a founder of Surrealism who co-founded the review Littérature in 1919 and joined the Communist Party in 1927.
Lucebert
Lucebert, the pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (1924–1994), was a Dutch poet and visual artist who led the experimental Vijftigers movement and is counted among the major Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidón (1902–1963) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 whose complete poetry is gathered under the title La realidad y el deseo.
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) was a Spanish Baroque poet from Córdoba, the leading exponent of culteranismo, known for the Fábula de Polifemo and the unfinished Soledades.
Luis Rosales
Luis Rosales, full name Luis Rosales Camacho, was a Spanish poet and critic of the Generation of '36 who won the 1982 Premio Cervantes, Spain's highest literary award.
Luuk Gruwez
Luuk Gruwez (born 1953 in Kortrijk) is a Flemish poet, essayist, and prose writer, a central figure in Dutch-language poetry since his breakthrough collection De feestelijke verliezer (1985).
Lydia Koidula
Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (1843–1886), was an Estonian national poet and dramatist whose patriotic poem "Mu isamaa on minu arm" became an unofficial anthem.
M. Vasalis
M. Vasalis, pseudonym of Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans (1909 to 1998), was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist who published only three poetry collections yet won the P.C. Hooft-prijs.
Maironis
Maironis, pen name of Jonas Mačiulis (1862–1932), was a Lithuanian poet and Catholic priest regarded as the most prominent Lithuanian poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Maksim Bahdanovich
Maksim Bahdanovich (Belarusian: Максім Багдановіч, 1891–1917) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and critic, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose only lifetime collection, Vyanok, appeared in 1913.
Maksim Tank
Maksim Tank (Максі́м Танк, born Jauhen Ivanavich Skurko) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, born in 1912 and one of the most significant twentieth-century Belarusian poets.
Maksym Rylsky
Maksym Rylsky (Максим Рильський) was a Ukrainian lyric poet, translator, and academician, born and died in Kyiv, known as a master of classical verse and the sonnet.
Manfred Hausmann
Manfred Hausmann (1898–1986) was a German lyric poet and writer in Bremen, known for the novels Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken and Abel mit der Mundharmonika.
Māra Zālīte
Māra Zālīte, born 1952 in Siberia to a family deported by the Soviet regime, is a Latvian poet, playwright, and novelist whose rock opera Lāčplēsis premiered in 1988 during the Atmoda independence period.