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Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose stripped-down postwar verse and drama reshaped modern Polish literature; often a Nobel candidate, he was translated into 49 languages.
Taras Shevchenko (Тарас Григорович Шевченко)
Taras Shevchenko (Тарас Григорович Шевченко, 1814–1861), Ukraine's national bard, painter, and founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language; author of Kobzar (1840), exiled 1847–57 for anti-tsarist verse, buried at Kaniv.
Teixeira de Pascoaes
Teixeira de Pascoaes, pen name of Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos (1877–1952), was a Portuguese poet from Amarante who led Saudosismo, the first literary school of twentieth-century Portuguese poetry, built on his doctrine of saudade.
Teodor Trayanov
Teodor Trayanov (Теодор Траянов) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, translator, and chess administrator who, with Peyo Yavorov, is regarded as a founder of Bulgarian symbolism.
Theodor Däubler
Theodor Däubler (1876–1934) was a German-language poet, translator, and art critic born in Trieste, best known for his cosmic epic Das Nordlicht, a poem of more than 30,000 lines.
Theodor Storm
Theodor Storm (1817–1888) was a German writer and jurist of literary realism, known for poems and novellas set on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein.
Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier (Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier; 1811–1872) was a French poet, novelist, and leading art critic known for art for art's sake, Mademoiselle de Maupin, and Émaux et Camées.
Thorkild Bjørnvig
Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004) was a Danish poet, essayist, and literary scholar who co-edited the influential postwar journal Heretica, translated Rilke, and became widely known for his 1970s environmental poetry.
Tin Ujević
Tin Ujević, full name Augustin, was a Croatian poet, essayist, and translator born in Vrgorac in 1891, regarded as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the twentieth century.
Tomás de Iriarte
Tomás de Iriarte (1750–1791) was a Spanish Neoclassical fabulist, poet, playwright, and translator, best known for the Fábulas literarias of 1782, original verse fables on literary themes.
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist, and translator, regarded as the leading Swedish poet of his generation, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.
Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova, born in 1937 in Klaipėda, is a Lithuanian poet, essayist, translator, and literary scholar, a Yale professor emeritus, and a founding member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group.
Tor Obrestad
Tor Obrestad (1938–2020) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who wrote mainly in Nynorsk, led the Profil modernist circle in the 1960s, and wrote the strike novel Sauda! Streik!
Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976) was a Danish poet, novelist, and memoirist from working-class Copenhagen, one of the most widely read Danish authors of the twentieth century, known for The Copenhagen Trilogy.
Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock, 1896-1963), Romanian-born French poet and founder of Dada at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire in 1916; author of Sept manifestes Dada, later a surrealist, Resistance activist, and naturalized French citizen.
Tsiotka
Tsiotka (Auntie) was the pen name of Aloiza Pashkevich, a Belarusian poet and revolutionary who published the poetry collections Khrest na svabodu and Skrypka belaruskaja in 1906.
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi, born Ion N. Theodorescu, was a Romanian poet and prose writer whose 1927 collection Cuvinte potrivite carried out the deepest reform of Romanian poetic language.
Tulenkantajat
Tulenkantajat, Finnish for "Torch Bearers," was a Finnish literary and artistic group of the 1920s known for renewing Finnish poetry and advocating cosmopolitanism; members included Katri Vala and Mika Waltari.
Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo, born Niccolò Foscolo (1778–1827), was an Italian poet and novelist, author of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei Sepolcri, who died in exile in London.
Uku Masing
Uku Masing (born Hugo Albert Masing, 1909–1985) was an Estonian poet, theologian, and philologist who hid his Jewish student during the Nazi occupation, earning recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.
Uladzimir Karatkievich
Uladzimir Karatkievich (Уладзі́мір Сямё́навіч Каратке́віч, 1930–1984) was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and dramatist regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature, known for the Gothic novella King Stakh's Wild Hunt.
Valdemar Rørdam
Valdemar Rørdam (1872–1946) was a Danish poet and novelist, a leading singer of the Danish land and people until a 1941 poem urging support for Hitler's war destroyed his reputation.
Valentin Vodnik
Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819) was a Slovene poet, priest, and journalist of the Enlightenment, regarded as the first Slovene secular poet and author of the first Slovene poetry collection, newspaper, and grammar.
Valery Bryusov
Valery Bryusov (Валерий Брюсов) was a Russian poet, prose writer, and translator who founded and led Russian symbolism, making it a coherent literary movement from the 1890s onward.
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890) was a Romanian poet, dramatist, folklorist, politician, and diplomat, a leading figure of the 1848 generation who wrote the Pasteluri and Chirița comedies and campaigned for the union of the Romanian Principalities.
Vasily Trediakovsky
Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1769) was a Russian poet and philologist who began the reform of Russian versification and was the first Russian professor at the Academy of Sciences.
Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Василий Жуковский, 1783–1852) was a Russian poet and translator regarded as the founder of Romanticism in Russian poetry and tutor of Alexander II.
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus (Василь Стус) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and human rights activist of the sixtiers generation who died in 1985 as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.
Vasyl Symonenko
Vasyl Symonenko (Василь Симоненко) was a Ukrainian poet and dissident whose samvydav poetry largely marks the beginning of the Ukrainian opposition movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Vazha-Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela (ვაჟა-ფშაველა), pen name of Luka Razikashvili, was a Georgian poet, 1861–1915, whose epic poems and nature lyrics made him a central figure of Georgian literature.