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Marcelijus Martinaitis
Marcelijus Martinaitis (1936–2013) was a Lithuanian poet, essayist, and translator best known for The Ballads of Kukutis (1977), whose trickster hero voiced dissent under Soviet censorship.
Maria Konopnicka
Maria Konopnicka, born Maria Wasiłowska (1842–1910), was a leading Polish poet, short-story writer, and children's author of the positivist period, also known for the patriotic poem Rota.
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945) was a Polish lyric poet and playwright of the interwar Skamander group, born in Kraków and died in exile in Manchester, England.
Maria Wine
Maria Wine, born Karla Petersen, was a Swedish poet and author born in Copenhagen in 1912. She debuted with Vinden ur mörkret (1943) and wrote over thirty books.
Marie Noël
Marie Noël was the pen name of Marie Mélanie Rouget (1883–1967), a French poet of Auxerre known for Catholic lyric poetry rooted in popular song.
Marie Under
Marie Under (1883–1980) was an Estonian poet regarded as Estonia's greatest, a leader of the Siuru group who published 14 collections and fled to Sweden in 1944.
Marina Tsvetaeva (Марина Ивановна Цветаева)
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Марина Ивановна Цветаева, 1892–1941), Russian Silver Age poet and prose writer, author of After Russia, Poema kontsa and Krysolov; suicide in Yelabuga 1941, Soviet rehabilitation from 1961.
Marino Moretti
Marino Moretti (1885–1979) was an Italian poet and novelist from Cesenatico, among the leading figures of Italian Crepuscularism, the early twentieth-century current of subdued, anti-rhetorical poetry.
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890–1916) was a Portuguese poet, novelist, and short-story writer who died by suicide in Paris at 26, a principal figure of the magazine Orpheu, which introduced modernism to Portugal.
Marja-Liisa Vartio
Marja-Liisa Vartio, born Marja-Liisa Sairanen (1924–1966), was a Finnish poet and prose writer among the central modernists of 1950s Finnish literature, best known for her posthumous novel Hänen olivat linnut (1967).
Markiyan Shashkevych
Markiyan Shashkevych (Маркіян Шашкевич, 1811–1843) was a Ukrainian poet and Greek Catholic priest who led the literary revival in western Ukraine and initiated the almanac Rusalka Dnistrovaia of 1837.
Martin Greif (poet)
Martin Greif, born Friedrich Hermann Frey, was a German poet and dramatist (1839–1911) who lived in Munich and Vienna, known for nature lyrics and the play Agnes Bernauer.
Martin Rázus
Martin Rázus (1888–1937) was a Slovak poet, prose writer, dramatist, journalist, Lutheran pastor, and politician who led the Slovak National Party from 1927 and sat in the Czechoslovak National Assembly.
Martinus Nijhoff
Martinus Nijhoff (1894–1953) was a Dutch modernist poet, essayist, translator, and playwright, known for Awater and Het uur U and ranked among the greatest Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Mats Traat
Mats Traat (1936–2022) was a prolific Estonian poet, prose writer, playwright, and translator known for chronicling rural life and history in southern Estonia and the Tartu language.
Matthías Jochumsson
Matthías Jochumsson (1835–1920) was an Icelandic clergyman, poet, playwright, and translator, best known as author of the lyrics of the Icelandic national anthem, written in 1874.
Maurice Magre
Maurice Magre (1877–1941) was a French poet, dramatist, librettist, novelist, and occultist from Toulouse who moved from lyric poetry to esoteric fiction and travel writing on Indian religion, winning two Académie française prizes.
Max Bewer
Max Bewer (1861–1921) was a German poet, publicist, and librettist who won fame defending Bismarck after 1890 and later wrote antisemitic pamphlets and patriotic verse.
Max Mell
Max Mell (1882–1971) was an Austrian poet and playwright, praised by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose mystery play Das Apostelspiel was the most popular amateur drama of the interwar period.
Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu (Mihail Eminovici, 1850–1889), Romania's national poet and leading Romantic, author of Luceafărul, editor of Timpul, Junimea member, whose manuscripts and contested legacy define Romanian literature.
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805) was a Hungarian poet of Debrecen, considered the greatest poet of the Hungarian Enlightenment, known for the Lilla Songs and the comic epic Dorottya.
Mihály Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty, in Hungarian Vörösmarty Mihály, was a Hungarian poet, dramatist, and critic of the Romantic movement, best known for Szózat (1836) and the epic Zalán futása.
Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов)
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), 1814–1841, Russian Romantic poet and author of A Hero of Our Time; exiled for 'Death of the Poet', killed in a duel with Martynov at Pyatigorsk.
Mikhas Charot
Mikhas Charot (Міхась Чарот), pen name of Mikhail Kudzelka, was a Belarusian poet, playwright, and editor who led the literary organization Maladniak and was shot in Minsk in 1937.
Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet, one of the most translated of his century, murdered on a death march in 1944; his last poems were found in a notebook on his exhumed body.
Miron Białoszewski
Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was a Polish poet, prose writer, and playwright, a major figure of twentieth-century Polish literature known for his experimental, colloquial poetic language.
Moscow Time (poetry group)
Moscow Time (Московское время) was a Soviet poetry group formed in Moscow in 1974, its core members Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenzheev, Alexander Soprovsky, and Alexei Tsvetkov.
Moyshe Kulbak
Moyshe Kulbak (משה קולבאַק, 1896–1937) was a Yiddish poet, novelist, and dramatist of Smorgon near Vilna, a leading modernist executed in the Stalinist purges of 1937.
Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Bazhan (Микола Бажан), 1904 to 1983, was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and Soviet political figure who won two Stalin Prizes and headed the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.
Mykola Vinhranovsky
Mykola Vinhranovsky (Микола Вінграновський, 1936–2004) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and film director, a leading figure of the Sixtiers generation who won the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.