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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), Italian poet, novelist, essayist, and film director of Accattone, Il vangelo secondo Matteo, and Salò; Friulian-language poet, polemicist against consumerism, murdered at Ostia in an officially contested case.
Pierre Emmanuel
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël-Jean Mathieu (1916–1984), was a French poet of Christian inspiration whose Resistance verse was learned by heart; he joined the Académie française in 1968.
Pierre Jean Jouve
Pierre Jean Jouve (1887–1976) was a French poet, novelist, and critic who renounced his early pacifist work around 1924 and rebuilt his writing on psychoanalysis and Christian mysticism.
Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs (Pierre-Félix Louis, 1870–1925), French Parnassian poet and novelist, author of the Bilitis hoax (1894) and Aphrodite (1896), friend of Gide, Valéry, and Debussy.
Piet Hein
Piet Hein (1905–1996) was a Danish poet, designer, and inventor who wrote nearly 10,000 short aphoristic grooks and created the superellipse curve used in furniture and city squares.
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647) was a Dutch Golden Age poet, playwright, and historian, called the head of the Dutch poets, who served as Drost of Muiden.
Pimen Panchenko
Pimen Panchenko (Пімен Панчанка) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and journalist who served as a war correspondent and was named People's Poet of Belarus in 1973.
Propala hramota
Propala hramota (Пропала грамота, "The Lost Charter") was an avant-garde group of three Kyiv poets, Yurko Pozayak, Viktor Nedostup, and Semen Lyboń, active during perestroika in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Pyotr Vyazemsky
Pyotr Vyazemsky (Пётр Вяземский), 1792–1878, was a Russian poet, literary critic, and statesman who co-founded the Arzamas society, befriended Pushkin, and chaired the Russian Historical Society.
Pyotr Yershov
Pyotr Yershov (Пётр Ершов, 1815–1869) was a Russian writer best known for the verse fairy tale Konyok-Gorbunok, which he wrote as a student in 1834.
Rabbe Enckell
Rabbe Enckell (1903–1974) was a Finland-Swedish poet, critic, and painter, a founder of Finland-Swedish modernism who debuted in 1923 with Dikter and wrote about thirty poetry collections.
Radoy Ralin
Radoy Ralin (Радой Ралин) was the pen name of Dimitar Stefanov Stoyanov, a Bulgarian poet and satirist considered the most prominent epigrammatist in Bulgarian poetry.
Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti (Rafael Alberti Merello), 1902–1999, Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 from El Puerto de Santa María; author of Marinero en tierra and Sobre los ángeles, communist militant, exile in Argentina and Rome, Cervantes Prize 1983.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet born René in Prague, died in Montreux; author of the Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Malte Laurids Brigge, mentored by Lou Andreas-Salomé and Rodin.
Rainis
Rainis, born Jānis Pliekšāns (1865–1929), was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, regarded as a central creator of Latvian national identity who later served as Minister of Education.
Ramsey Nasr
Ramsey Nasr (born 1974 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch poet, writer, and actor who served as the Netherlands' Dichter des Vaderlands, or poet laureate, from 2009 to 2013.
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze, born 1933 in Oelsnitz, is a German writer known for his poetry and his conflict with the East German SED regime, moving west in 1977.
Reinhold Schneider
Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958) was a German Catholic poet, novelist, and moral essayist whose wartime resistance writings earned him the epithet "the conscience of Germany"; he won the 1956 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Remco Campert
Remco Campert (1929–2022) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and columnist known as one of the Vijftigers, whose novel Het leven is vurrukkulluk (1961) became a Dutch classic.
René Char
René Char (1907–1988) was a French poet and Resistance leader from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in Provence who commanded Maquis units as Capitaine Alexandre and published his best-known work, Feuillets d'Hypnos, in 1946.
Rene Karabash (Рене Карабаш)
Rene Karabash (Рене Карабаш), pen name of Irena Hristova Ivanova (born 1989), is a Bulgarian poet and novelist whose debut novel She Who Remains won the Elias Canetti Prize and was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize.
Rigas Feraios
Rigas Feraios, more properly Rigas Velestinlis, was a Greek writer and revolutionary who planned an uprising against Ottoman rule and was executed in Belgrade in 1798.
Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt was a German poet, satirist, and cartoonist who co-founded the magazine Titanic in 1979 and wrote more than 50 books of comic poetry and prose.
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975) was a German poet, novelist, and translator who renewed German lyric poetry through American influences, best known for the novel Keiner weiß mehr.
Rolf Jacobsen
Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994) was a Norwegian poet and journalist whose debut collection Jord og jern (1933) brought technology into Norwegian poetry as one of its first literary modernists.
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer, born Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer (1901–1988), was a German-language poet from Czernowitz in the Bukovina who survived its ghetto and became one of the widely read postwar German lyric poets.
Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío (1867-1916), born Félix Rubén in Metapa, Nicaragua, was the leading poet of modernismo; his Azul… (1888) opened the movement, renewed Spanish-language metrics with the alejandrino and dactylic verse, and reshaped poetry in Spanish.
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962) was a German poet, translator, hymn writer, and interior architect known as the "last humanist," who co-founded Die Insel and translated Homer and Shakespeare.
Rutger Kopland
Rutger Kopland, pen name of Rutger Hendrik van den Hoofdakker, was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist at the University of Groningen who won the P.C. Hooft Prize in 1988.
Ruy Cinatti
Ruy Cinatti (1915–1986) was a Portuguese poet, agronomist, and ethnographer who spent much of his career in Portuguese Timor and won major Portuguese poetry prizes including the Prémio Camilo Pessanha.