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Eduards Veidenbaums
Eduards Veidenbaums (1867–1892) was a Latvian poet and translator whose roughly hundred poems, marked by irony and social protest, influenced Latvian writers well into the 21st century.
Eeva-Liisa Manner
Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright, and translator regarded as a pioneer of Finnish post-war modernism; her breakthrough collection was Tämä matka (1956).
Einar Benediktsson
Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an Icelandic poet, lawyer, and journalist, a leading lyric poet of his era. He published five collections and spent decades seeking foreign capital to harness Iceland's waterfalls.
Elena Farago
Elena Farago, born Elena Paximade (1878–1954), was a Romanian poet, translator, and publicist best known for her children's poetry and for directing the Aman Foundation in Craiova.
Eliezer Shteynbarg
Eliezer Shteynbarg (אליעזר שטיינבאַרג, 1880–1932) was a Yiddish poet, educator, and fabulist born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, who wrote about 150 rhymed fables and led Jewish cultural life in interwar Romania.
Elisaveta Bagryana
Elisaveta Bagryana (Елисавета Багряна), born Elisaveta Lyubenova Belcheva, was a Bulgarian poet whose 1927 debut, The Eternal and the Holy, introduced a frank female voice into Bulgarian poetry.
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (1938–2024) was a German poet, editor, and translator, a central figure of East German experimental poetry who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2020.
Elmer Diktonius
Elmer Diktonius was a Finland-Swedish poet, writer, critic, and composer, born and died in Helsinki, who pioneered modernism in Nordic literature; his leftist-influenced debut was Min dikt (1921).
Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler, born Elisabeth Schüler, was a German Jewish poet and playwright, a leading voice of German Expressionism, who won the 1932 Kleist Prize and died in exile in Jerusalem in 1945.
Emanuil Popdimitrov
Emanuil Popdimitrov (Емануил Попдимитров) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, critic, and playwright who taught comparative literature at Sofia University and was condemned as decadent after 1944.
Emil Aarestrup
Emil Aarestrup, full name Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup (1800–1856), was a Danish physician and poet whose single collection, Digte (1838), sold about 40 copies before his posthumous recognition.
Émile Verhaeren
Émile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet writing in French, the foremost figure among the Belgian Symbolists, who published more than 30 poetry collections before dying at Rouen station in 1916.
Endre Ady
Endre Ady (Ady Endre, 1877–1919) was a Hungarian poet and journalist whose symbolist verse and political journalism opened the modern period of Hungarian poetry in the early 20th century.
Ercilla
Ercilla is a Chilean name referring to Alonso de Ercilla, the Spanish poet of La Araucana, and to the Santiago publishing house and magazine named after him.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) was a Swedish lyric poet of Dalarna who in 1931 became the only writer ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously.
Erik Blomberg
Erik Blomberg (1894–1965) was a Swedish poet, art critic, and translator, a leading Swedish poet of the 1920s and translator of Hafis and Chinese lyric.
Erik Johan Stagnelius
Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823) was a Swedish Romantic poet from Öland, unknown in his life but admired after death as one of Sweden's finest lyricists.
Erik Lindegren
Erik Lindegren (Johan Erik Lindegren, 1910–1968) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator whose 1942 collection mannen utan väg launched the modernist forties; he joined the Swedish Academy in 1962.
Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal (Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, 1925–2020) was a Nicaraguan poet, Catholic priest, and Sandinista Minister of Culture 1979–1988, founder of exteriorismo and the Solentiname community, suspended by the Vatican and rebuked by Pope John Paul II in 1983.
Ernst Enno
Ernst Enno (1875–1934) was an Estonian poet and short prose writer, one of the first Estonian symbolists, founder of the mystical tradition in Estonian poetry, and a notable children's poet.
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) was an Austrian poet and a central figure of German-language experimental poetry, best known for the sound poem "schtzngrmm" and the comic "ottos mops".
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer, and poet born on Rügen whose patriotic songs and pamphlets made him a leading voice against Napoleonic rule.
Ernst Stadler
Ernst Stadler (1883–1914) was a German expressionist poet best known for the collection Der Aufbruch and its signature long verse lines; he died in the First World War.
Ernst von der Recke
Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) was a Danish poet, playwright, and metrist whose lyrical drama Bertran de Born was a great success at the Royal Theatre in 1873.
Esaias Tegnér
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) was a Swedish poet, professor of Greek at Lund University, and bishop of Växjö, best known for the verse cycle Frithiofs saga.
Eugénio de Andrade
Eugénio de Andrade, pen name of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), was a Portuguese poet and translator, one of the most widely translated of the twentieth century.
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, critic, and translator who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature; his books include Ossi di seppia and Satura.
Eva Gerlach
Eva Gerlach is the pen name of Margaret Dijkstra, born 1948 in Amsterdam, a Dutch poet and translator who won the P.C. Hooft-prijs in 2000.
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (1808–1875) was a Dutch poet and critic who co-founded the magazine De Gids and is considered the founder of Dutch literary criticism.
Faustas Kirša
Faustas Kirša (1891–1964) was a Lithuanian poet, publicist, and translator, the leading intellectual symbolist in interwar Lithuanian poetry and author of the satirical masterpiece Pelenai (Ashes).