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Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Feliński (1771–1820) was a Polish poet, dramatist, translator, and educator, known for the tragedy Barbara Radziwiłłówna and the hymn "Boże, coś Polskę", which became a national religious song.
Anders Österling
Anders Österling (1884–1981) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator who served in the Swedish Academy for 62 years, as its permanent secretary from 1941 to 1964.
André Bjerke
André Bjerke (Jarl André Bjerke, 1918–1985) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, and translator who wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Bernhard Borge, including De dødes tjern.
André Breton
André Breton (1896–1966), French poet and founder and lifelong leader of Surrealism; wrote the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism defining it as pure psychic automatism, plus Nadja and L'Amour fou.
Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius, born Andreas Greif, was a German Baroque lyric poet and dramatist from Glogau in Silesia, famous for his sonnets and regarded as the founder of German art drama.
Andreas Kalvos
Andreas Kalvos (Ανδρέας Κάλβος, 1792–1869) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos whose twenty odes celebrating the Greek War of Independence made him a landmark of modern Greek poetry.
Andrei Voznesensky
Andrei Voznesensky (Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky) was a Soviet Russian poet and trained architect who filled stadiums during the Khrushchev Thaw, drawing official censure and mass popularity.
Andrejs Pumpurs
Andrejs Pumpurs (1841–1902) was a Latvian poet of the national awakening era, best known as the creator of the Latvian national epic Lāčplēsis, published in 1888.
Andrii Malyshko
Andrii Malyshko (1912–1970) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and translator whose song Pisnia pro rushnyk is so widely sung many take it for a folk song.
Ángel González
Ángel González (1925–2008) was a Spanish poet from Oviedo, a leading voice of the Generation of the 50 whose ironic, colloquial poetry won the Premio Príncipe de Asturias in 1985.
Angelos Sikelianos
Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) was a leading 20th-century Greek lyric poet, born on Leucas in 1884, best known for staging the Delphic Festivals of 1927 and 1930.
Ann Jäderlund
Ann Jäderlund, born 1955 in Stockholm, is a Swedish poet, playwright, and translator whose difficult second collection, Som en gång varit äng (1988), triggered the Jäderlund debate.
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), born Anna Gorenko (1889–1966), Russian Acmeist poet of Evening, Rosary, Requiem, and Poem without a Hero; suppressed in 1925 and 1946, honored with the 1964 Etna Taormina prize and a 1965 Oxford doctorate.
Anna de Noailles
Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), born Anna-Élisabeth Bibesco-Brancovan, was a French-language poet and salonnière, the first woman Commander of the Legion of Honour and first woman member of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Anna Enquist
Anna Enquist is the pseudonym of Dutch poet and novelist Christa Broer, born in Amsterdam in 1945, one of the most widely read authors in Dutch literature.
Anna Maria Lenngren
Anna Maria Lenngren, née Malmstedt (1754–1817), was a Swedish poet and translator, counted among the foremost Gustavian-era authors; she published almost all her mature poetry anonymously in Stockholms Posten.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) was a German poet, prose writer, and composer from Westphalia, best known for the novella Die Judenbuche (1842) and her landscape lyric.
Antanas Baranauskas
Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop, poet, and linguist, best known for Anykščių šilelis, the most famous work of 19th-century Lithuanian poetry, and for classifying Lithuanian dialects.
Antero de Quental
Antero de Quental (1842–1891) was a Portuguese poet and philosopher from Ponta Delgada, Azores, the leading figure of the Generation of 70 and a cofounder of Portugal's socialist movement.
Anton Aškerc
Anton Aškerc (1856–1912) was a Slovene poet, priest, and editor, published under the pseudonym Gorazd, and served as the first city archivist of Ljubljana from 1898.
Anton van Duinkerken
Anton van Duinkerken, pen name of Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs (1903–1968), was a Dutch poet, essayist, and professor who was a leading Catholic voice between the wars.
António Correia de Oliveira
António Correia de Oliveira (1879–1960) was a Portuguese poet of the saudosismo movement and later official poet of the Estado Novo, first nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado (Antonio Machado y Ruiz) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '98, born in Seville in 1875 and died in exile in France in 1939.
Antun Gustav Matoš
Antun Gustav Matoš (1873–1914) was a Croatian writer, poet, and critic, the central figure of Croatian Moderna, whose 1892 story Moć savjesti began the period.
Apollon Grigoryev
Apollon Grigoryev, also known as Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (Аполлон Александрович Григорьев), was a Russian poet and literary and theater critic, 1822–1864, who created "organic criticism" and worked with Dostoevsky on the journals Vremia and Epokha.
Apollon Maykov
Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) was a Russian poet of the art-for-art's-sake school, elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1853 and awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1882 for Two Worlds.
Arkadz Kuleshou
Arkadz Kuleshou (Аркадзь Куляшоў, 1914–1978) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR, best known for the wartime poem Stsyah bryhady.
Armand Godoy
Armand Godoy (1880–1964) was a Cuban-born French-language Symbolist poet who settled in Paris in 1919, wrote Catholic verse, and assembled a major Baudelaire manuscript collection.
Arno Holz
Arno Holz (1863–1929) was a German lyric poet and dramatist, the leading theorist of literary Naturalism, known for the formula "Kunst = Natur − x" and the rhymeless Phantasus.
Arnulf Øverland
Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and lecturer, best known for the anti-fascist poem 'Du må ikke sove!' and his 1933 acquittal for blasphemy.