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Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French Symbolist poet of Charleville and Marseille, wrote Le Bateau ivre, Une Saison en enfer, and Illuminations, pioneered free verse, then abandoned poetry for African trade.
Arvid Mörne
Arvid Mörne (1876–1946) was a Finland-Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian who published twenty poetry collections and led a Finnish folk high school from 1899 to 1909.
Asdreni
Asdreni, pen name of Aleksandër Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), was an Albanian poet who wrote the lyrics of the Albanian national anthem and spent most of his life in exile in Romania.
Aspazija
Aspazija was the pen name of Johanna Rozenberga (1865–1943), a Latvian poet, playwright, and publicist who founded modern Latvian poetry and drama, and the wife of Rainis.
Atanas Dalchev
Atanas Dalchev (Атанас Далчев, 1904–1978) was a Bulgarian poet, translator, and critic known as "the poet-philosopher" and one of the central figures of Bulgarian post-symbolist modernism.
Attila József
Attila József (József Attila, 1905–1937), major Hungarian poet of the interwar years; author of Tiszta szívvel, Döntsd a tőkét, and Eszmélet; expelled from Szeged, briefly communist, died by train at Balatonszárszó.
Attilio Bertolucci
Attilio Bertolucci (1911–2000) was an Italian poet born near Parma whose colloquial, autobiographical poetry, moving away from hermeticism, culminated in the verse novel La camera da letto.
August Sang
August Sang (1914–1969) was an Estonian poet, critic, and literary translator, member of the Arbujad circle, whose Estonian translation of Goethe's Faust is counted among his greatest achievements.
August Stramm
August Stramm (1874–1915) was a German Expressionist poet and playwright, the leading contributor of Wortkunst to the journal Der Sturm, killed in action in World War I.
Bálint Balassi
Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) was a Hungarian nobleman, soldier, and poet, considered the first great classic of Hungarian-language poetry, known for love and religious verse and the nine-line Balassi stanza.
Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (1896–1947) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, playwright, and university professor, best known for Forest of the Gods, his memoir of imprisonment in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp.
Bella Akhmadulina
Bella Akhmadulina, full name Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937–2010), was a Russian poet of the Thaw-generation shestidesyatniki who published her first verses in 1955 and 33 collections.
Benedikt Gröndal
Benedikt Gröndal, full name Benedikt Gröndal Sveinbjarnarson, was an Icelandic poet, philologist, and naturalist, a central figure of late nineteenth-century Icelandic culture best known for the satirical Sagan af Heljarslóðarorustu (1861).
Bernardas Brazdžionis
Bernardas Brazdžionis, pen name Vytė Nemunėlis, was a Lithuanian poet and editor, a classic of Lithuanian literature who lived in exile in the United States from 1949.
Bertel Gripenberg
Bertel Gripenberg (1878–1947) was a Finland-Swedish baron and poet, born in Saint Petersburg, whose 1918 Civil War collection Under fanan made him celebrated before postwar re-evaluation.
Birger Sjöberg
Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and journalist whose popular Frida songs and modernist collection Kriser och kransar (1926) helped lay the groundwork for Swedish modernism.
Blas de Otero
Blas de Otero (1916–1979) was a Spanish poet from Bilbao whose work moved from tormented existential verse to the socially committed poetry of the postwar generation.
Bohdan Lepky
Bohdan Lepky (Богдан Лепкий, 1872–1941) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and teacher from Galicia, best known for his historical novels about Hetman Mazepa and the song "Zhuravli".
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (Богдан-Ігор Антонич, 1909–1937) was a Ukrainian poet of Lemko origin whose five collections, fusing pagan and Christian imagery, influenced the Kyiv school of the 1960s.
Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (Борис Пастернак), 1890–1960, Russian poet, translator, and author of Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго); won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature and was forced by Soviet authorities to decline it.
Boris Ryzhy
Boris Ryzhy (Борис Рыжий, 1974–2001) was a Russian poet from Yekaterinburg whose verse fused classical form with the industrial Urals; he won the AntiBooker prize in 1999.
Bruno K. Öijer
Bruno K. Öijer, born 1951 in Linköping, is a Swedish poet who debuted in 1973, broke through in 1990 with Medan giftet verkar, and won the Bellman Prize.
Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Okudzhava (Булат Окуджава) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter, regarded as a founder of the Russian author song; his songs like "Song about the Arbat" spread on tape recordings.
Carl Michael Bellman
Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and singer, one of Sweden's national poets, best known for Fredman's Epistles (1790) and Fredman's Songs.
Carl Spitteler
Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) was a Swiss poet who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature for his epic Olympischer Frühling, and whose 1914 speech defending Swiss neutrality became a founding text of Swiss self-understanding.
Carles Riba
Carles Riba i Bracons (1893–1959) was a Catalan poet, translator, and classical scholar of Barcelona, whose exile cycle Elegies de Bierville is among the major works of modern Catalan poetry.
Carlos Barral
Carlos Barral (1928–1989) was a Spanish poet and publisher who led the Seix Barral house, launched the Latin American Boom, and later served as a senator and European MP.
Carmen Conde
Carmen Conde (Carmen Conde Abellán; 1907–1996) was a Spanish poet and novelist from Cartagena who in 1978 became the first woman elected to the Real Academia Española.
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) was an Italian writer, poet, translator, and editor based in Turin, known for realist novels like La luna e i falò and for introducing American authors to Italian readers.
Cesário Verde
Cesário Verde (José Joaquim Cesário Verde) was a Portuguese poet who worked as a Lisbon merchant, published little in his lifetime, and is now regarded as a precursor of Portuguese Modernism.