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Ryhor Baradulin
Ryhor Baradulin (Рыгор Барадулін; 1935–2014) was a Belarusian lyric poet, essayist, and translator who published more than 70 collections and was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, was a French poet and diplomat, secretary-general of the Quai d'Orsay, who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Nėris, real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė, was a Lithuanian neo-Romantic poet (1904–1945) whose melodic, folk-song-inflected lyrics made her one of the most popular Lithuanian writers.
Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu, full name Salvador Espriu i Castelló (1913–1985), was a Catalan poet, playwright, and novelist, a central figure of twentieth-century Catalan literature known for Cementiri de Sinera and La pell de brau.
Salvador Rueda
Salvador Rueda (Salvador Rueda Santos, 1857–1933) was a Spanish poet from a peasant family in Málaga who renewed Spanish verse meters and joined the Real Academia Española in 1926.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was an Italian poet and translator who led the Hermetic school, turned after World War II to civic poetry, and won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sándor Kisfaludy
Sándor Kisfaludy (Kisfaludy Sándor, 1772 to 1844) was a Hungarian poet and playwright whose Himfy poems made him the most renowned Hungarian poet of the early 19th century.
Sándor Weöres
Sándor Weöres (Weöres Sándor) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and playwright, born in 1913 and counted among the most significant Hungarian poets of the twentieth century.
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch, born Ingrid Bernstein (1935–2013), was a German poet known for dense nature imagery, who protested Biermann's 1976 expatriation and left East Germany in 1977.
Sasha Cherny
Sasha Cherny (Саша Чёрный), pen name of Alexander Glikberg (1880–1932), was a Russian satirical poet, star of the journal Satirikon, and later a children's writer in emigration.
Semyon Nadson
Semyon Nadson (Семён Надсон) was a Russian poet whose melancholic civic verse made him the most popular lyric poet of the 1880s; he died of tuberculosis at 24.
Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин)
Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин, 1895-1925), Russian lyric poet from Konstantinovo, Ryazan; founder-imagist, author of Radunitsa, Pugachev, Anna Snegina, The Black Man; married Isadora Duncan; died Leningrad 1925; widely translated and received worldwide.
Sergey Gorodetsky
Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, translator, playwright, and critic who co-founded the acmeist movement with Nikolai Gumilev, active from 1907 to 1967.
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Zhadan (Сергій Жадан), born 1974 in Starobilsk and based in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian poet and novelist whose books include Voroshilovgrad, Mesopotamia, and The Orphanage.
Sigbjørn Obstfelder
Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866–1900) was a Norwegian writer, the foremost representative of early modernist lyric poetry in Norway, often called the creator of modernism in the Nordic countries.
Sigitas Geda
Sigitas Geda (1943–2008) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, and translator who published over 50 poetry collections, translated Dante and the Quran into Lithuanian, and helped lead the Sąjūdis reform movement that restored Lithuania's independence.
Sigitas Parulskis
Sigitas Parulskis, born 1965 in Obeliai, Lithuania, is a poet, novelist, playwright, and critic, best known for Darkness and Partners, the first Lithuanian novel on Lithuanian complicity in the Holocaust.
Silva Kaputikyan
Silva Kaputikyan (Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան), real name Sirvard, was an Armenian poet and public figure, born and died in Yerevan, best known for the poem "A Word to My Son."
Simon Gregorčič
Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906) was a Slovenian poet and Catholic priest, nicknamed the nightingale of Gorica, whose four volumes of verse, including the ode "Soči", made him Slovenia's most musical poet.
Sonja Åkesson
Sonja Åkesson (1926–1977) was a Swedish poet and playwright of the "new simplicity" movement, whose poem "Äktenskapsfrågan" became a defining text of the women's movement.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004) was a leading Portuguese poet of the second half of the twentieth century, author of fifteen poetry books and winner of the 1999 Camões Prize.
Sophus Claussen
Sophus Claussen (1865–1931) was a Danish poet and a leading figure of Danish symbolism, attacked for frivolity in his lifetime and later hailed as a bridge between romanticism and modernism.
Sotíris Skípis
Sotíris Skípis (Σωτήρης Σκίπης) was a Greek demoticist poet, dramatist, and translator who divided his life between Greece and Provence and joined the Academy of Athens in 1946.
Srečko Kosovel
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) was a Slovenian poet, a central figure of Slovenian modern poetry and the avant-garde, who left over 1,000 poems before dying at 22.
Stefan George
Stefan George (1868–1933) was a German poet, translator, and editor who renewed German lyric through French Symbolism, led the exclusive George-Kreis, and refused honors from the Nazi government.
Stein Mehren
Stein Mehren (1935–2017) was a Norwegian poet and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost lyricists in recent Norwegian literature, who published nearly 30 poetry collections and won major prizes.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (Étienne Mallarmé, 1842–1898), French Symbolist poet, one of the four major French poets of the late nineteenth century; author of L'Après-midi d'un faune and Un coup de dés, host of the mardis, elected prince des poètes in 1896.
Stoyan Mihaylovski
Stoyan Mihaylovski (Стоян Михайловски), 1856–1927, was a Bulgarian writer, satirical poet, teacher, and political figure, author of "Varvi, narode vazrodeni," the hymn sung every 24 May.
Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme, pen name of René François Armand Prudhomme (1839–1907), was a French poet trained in science who won the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
Szymon Szymonowic
Szymon Szymonowic, also known as Simon Simonides, was a Polish Renaissance humanist and bilingual poet (1558 to 1629) whose 1614 collection Sielanki founded the Polish pastoral idyll and who helped organize the Zamość Academy.