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Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian-born French poet and painter, author of Plume, Un barbare en Asie, and the mescaline books Misérable Miracle and L'Infini turbulent, known for calligraphy-inspired ink drawings.
Henriette Charasson
Henriette Charasson (1884-1972) was a French poet, playwright, and literary critic who wrote for L'Action française under the pseudonym Orion and won eleven Académie française prizes.
Henriette Roland Holst
Henriette Roland Holst, born Henriëtte van der Schalk (1869–1952), was a Dutch poet and socialist politician who helped found Dutch communism, translated De Internationale, and joined the resistance.
Henrik Wergeland
Henrik Wergeland (1808–1845) was a Norwegian poet, playwright, editor, and public debater central to Norwegian nation-building, language reform, and popular education, and Norway's first national archivist.
Henrikas Radauskas
Henrikas Radauskas (1910–1970) was a Lithuanian poet and translator, generally ranked among the major Lithuanian poets of the twentieth century, whose polished, anti-lyrical work reshaped Lithuanian poetry in exile.
Herman de Coninck
Herman de Coninck (1944–1997) was a Flemish poet, essayist, and journalist of Flemish New Realism, remembered as "the man who taught his people to read poetry".
Herman Gorter
Herman Gorter (1864–1927) was a Dutch poet and Marxist theorist of the Tachtigers, best known for the epic poem Mei (1889) and his 1920 open letter opposing Lenin.
Herman Wildenvey
Herman Wildenvey (1885–1959), born Herman Theodor Portaas, was a Norwegian lyric poet who brought a new colloquial voice to Norwegian poetry from his debut in 1907.
Holger Drachmann
Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) was a Danish poet, playwright, novelist, and marine painter, one of the first artists of the Skagen colony, best known for "Midsommersangen" (1885).
Hristo Smirnenski
Hristo Smirnenski (Христо Смирненски) was the pen name of Bulgarian poet Hristo Dimitrov Izmirliev (1898–1923), regarded as the first representative of proletarian literature in Bulgaria.
Ida Gerhardt
Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997) was a Dutch poet and classicist who wrote formal, classically rooted verse apart from the experimental Vijftigers, winning the P.C. Hooft Prize for poetry.
Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Ienăchiță Văcărescu (c. 1740 – 1797) was a Wallachian boyar poet, philologist, and historian who wrote one of the first printed Romanian grammars, published at Râmnic in 1787.
Igor Severyanin
Igor Severyanin (Игорь Северянин), pen name of Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev, was a Russian poet who founded egofuturism and was elected "King of Poets" in Moscow in 1918.
Ihor Kalynets
Ihor Kalynets (Ігор Калинець, 1939–2025) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and dissident who served six years in Soviet labor camps and received the Shevchenko Prize in 1992.
Imants Ziedonis
Imants Ziedonis (1933–2013) was a Latvian poet and prose writer, one of the most widely read Latvian poets of the late 20th century, creator of the short prose form he called epiphanies.
Imre Madách
Imre Madách (Madách Imre, 1823–1864) was a Hungarian poet and country gentleman, member of Parliament, and author of the 1861 dramatic poem The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája), his major work.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) was an Austrian poet and author, among the most influential European writers of the twentieth century, known for Die gestundete Zeit and Malina.
Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen (1935–2009) was a Danish poet, novelist, and essayist regarded as Denmark's leading poetic experimentalist, known for det (1969), the Fibonacci-structured alfabet (1981), and the sonnet crown Sommerfugledalen (1991).
Inger Hagerup
Inger Hagerup (1905–1985) was a Norwegian poet, author, and translator best known for the resistance poem "Aust-Vågøy", circulated illegally during the occupation, and children's classics like Så rart.
Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965), Afrikaans poet of Rook en Oker and Die kind; Die Sestigers member whose poem Mandela read in 1994; Order of Ikhamanga recipient.
Innokenty Annensky
Innokenty Annensky (Иннокентий Анненский) was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and educator at Tsarskoye Selo whose fame came almost entirely after his sudden death in 1909.
Itzik Manger
Itzik Manger (איציק מאַנגער), born Isidor Helfer, was a Yiddish poet and playwright best known for modernist biblical ballads like Khumesh-lider; he died in Israel in 1969.
Ivan Dmitriev
Ivan Dmitriev (Иван Иванович Дмитриев, 1760–1837) was a Russian poet and fabulist of the sentimental school who served as Minister of Justice from 1810 to 1814.
Ivan Drach
Ivan Drach (Іван Драч) was a Ukrainian poet and political leader who headed the Popular Movement of Ukraine and received the title Hero of Ukraine in 2006.
Ivan Franko (Іван Якович Франко)
Ivan Franko (Іван Якович Франко, 1856–1916), Ukrainian poet, novelist, scholar, translator, and political leader from Galicia; author of Zakhar Berkut, Boryslav smiiet'sia, and Moisei; Vienna doctorate 1893; first Ukrainian nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ivan Kotliarevsky
Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769–1838) was a Ukrainian poet and playwright regarded as the founder of modern Ukrainian literature and literary language, known for the vernacular poem Eneida.
Ivan Krylov
Ivan Krylov (Иван Андреевич Крылов), 1769 to 1844, was a Russian writer and fabulist who wrote more than 200 fables in nine books; many lines entered Russian speech as proverbs.
Ivan Mažuranić
Ivan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, lawyer, and politician who served as ban (governor) of Croatia from 1873 to 1880, the first commoner to hold the office.
Iwan Gilkin
Iwan Gilkin (1858–1924) was a Belgian French-language Symbolist poet, dramatist, and critic, author of La Nuit, a founder of La Jeune Belgique, and a member of Belgium's royal academy of French language and literature.
J. C. Bloem
J. C. Bloem, born Jakobus Cornelis Bloem (1887–1966), was a Dutch poet and civil servant whose formally traditional verse made him a classicist in twentieth-century Dutch poetry.