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Mykola Zerov
Mykola Zerov (Микола Зеров, 1890–1937) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and literary scholar who led the Neoclassicists, a group of poets, and was executed during the Stalinist terror.
Naim Frashëri
Naim Frashëri (1846–1900) was an Albanian poet of the national awakening, widely considered the national poet of Albania and a central figure of the Albanian Renaissance.
Naum Korzhavin
Naum Korzhavin, pen name of Naum Mandel, was a Russian dissident poet who was arrested under Stalin, emigrated to the United States in 1973, and died in 2018.
Ndre Mjeda
Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937) was an Albanian poet, Catholic priest, and linguist from Shkodër, known for Vaji i bylbylit and Juvenilia and for helping create the unified Albanian alphabet.
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018), Chilean poet, mathematician and physicist, brother of Violeta Parra, creator of antipoetry with Poemas y antipoemas (1954); National Literature Prize 1969, Cervantes Prize 2011.
Nikola Furnadzhiev
Nikola Furnadzhiev (Никола Фурнаджиев) was a Bulgarian poet of September poetry, the revolutionary lyric current named for the 1923 uprising; his poem Svadba remains one of the best-known works of the period.
Nikola Vaptsarov
Nikola Vaptsarov (Никола Вапцаров) was a Bulgarian poet, marine engineer, and communist revolutionary. Executed by firing squad in Sofia in 1942, he is best known for Motor Songs (1940), his only lifetime collection.
Nikolai Klyuev
Nikolai Klyuev (Николай Алексеевич Клюев, 1884–1937) was a Russian poet of peasant origin who led the new peasant current in Silver Age poetry and was shot under Stalin.
Nikolai Nekrasov
Nikolai Nekrasov (Николай Некрасов, 1821–1877) was a Russian poet, editor, and publisher who made peasant life his central subject and ran Sovremennik, the leading literary journal of his day.
Nikolai Rubtsov
Nikolai Rubtsov (Николай Михайлович Рубцов, 1936–1971) was a Soviet Russian lyric poet, leading figure of the "quiet lyric" current, known for "Star of the Fields".
Nikolai Yazykov
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Yazykov (Николай Михайлович Языков, 1803–1846) was a Russian Romantic poet and friend of Pushkin, famed for student songs, elegies, and mastery of language.
Nikolai Zabolotsky
Nikolai Zabolotsky, born Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky (1903–1958), was a Russian Soviet poet and translator, a founder of OBERIU known for the grotesque collection Stolbtsy and clear late lyrics.
Nikolay Liliev
Nikolay Liliev (Николай Лилиев), born Nikolay Mihaylov Popivanov in 1885, was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet and National Theatre dramaturg, known for Birds in the Night.
Nikoloz Baratashvili
Nikoloz Baratashvili (ნიკოლოზ ბარათაშვილი), born in Tbilisi in 1817, was a Georgian Romantic poet considered a founder of modern Georgian literature; he died in Ganja in 1845.
Nil Hilevich
Nil Hilevich (Ніл Гілевіч; 30 September 1931 – 29 March 2016) was a Belarusian poet, folklorist, and translator named People's Poet of Belarus in 1991 who helped draft the 1990 law on languages.
Nils Collett Vogt
Nils Collett Vogt (1864–1937) was a Norwegian writer remembered first and foremost as a lyric poet, though he also wrote novels, plays, and memoirs; his breakthrough was Fra Vaar til Høst (1894).
Nils Ferlin
Nils Ferlin (1898–1961) was a Swedish poet whose melancholy yet humorous verse about loneliness and poor, unlucky people made him one of Sweden's most beloved poets.
Nordahl Grieg
Nordahl Grieg, full name Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg, was a Norwegian poet, playwright, and war correspondent, known for the 1936 poem Til ungdommen and for wartime BBC broadcasts; he was killed over Berlin in 1943.
Novísimos
The novísimos, also called the Generación del 68 or Generación del 70, are Spanish poets named from José María Castellet's 1970 anthology of nine poets.
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican poet and essayist, 1990 Nobel laureate in Literature and first Mexican to win it. Author of El laberinto de la soledad, Piedra de sol, and Blanco; ambassador to India who resigned after the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre; founder of Plural and Vuelta.
Odysseus Elytis
Odysseus Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης), pen name of Odysseus Alepoudelis, was a Greek poet who received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry rooted in Greek tradition.
Ojārs Vācietis
Ojārs Vācietis (1933–1983) was a Latvian poet, translator, and publicist who led the Soviet-era Thaw generation and was banned from publishing from 1960 to 1966.
Olaf Bull
Olaf Bull (1883–1933) was a Norwegian poet, regarded in Denmark and Sweden as the leading Nordic lyricist of his time, debuting with Digte in 1909.
Olav Aukrust
Olav Aukrust (1883–1929) was a Norwegian teacher, folk high school headmaster, and poet who wrote in Nynorsk and counted among the leading lyric poets of the interwar years.
Olav H. Hauge
Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994) was a Norwegian poet and fruit farmer in Ulvik who wrote in Nynorsk and became one of Norway's foremost lyric poets.
Ole Sarvig
Ole Sarvig (1921–1981) was a Danish writer and one of the central Danish lyric poets of the twentieth century, known for religiously toned poetry expressing cultural crisis after World War II.
Oleksandr Oles
Oleksandr Oles (Олександр Олесь), real name Oleksandr Kandyba, was a Ukrainian lyric poet and dramatist born in 1878 who was central to Ukrainian symbolism and died in Prague in 1944.
Olena Teliha
Olena Teliha (Олена Теліга), née Shovheniva, was a Ukrainian poet and nationalist activist who led cultural work in occupied Kyiv before her execution at Babyn Yar in 1942.
Olzhas Suleimenov
Olzhas Suleimenov (Олжас Сүлейменов), born 1936 in Almaty, is a Kazakh poet and linguist whose 1975 book AZ i IA sparked a major Soviet literary scandal.
Orpheu generation
The Orpheu generation (Geração de Orpheu) was the group of young Portuguese poets, led by Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, whose 1915 magazine Orpheu began Portuguese modernism.