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Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.), 1943–2024, American Black Arts Movement poet, author of Black Feeling, Black Talk and Nikki-Rosa, Virginia Tech professor, seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and 2025 posthumous Frost Medal recipient.
Nikola Furnadzhiev
Nikola Furnadzhiev (Никола Фурнаджиев) was a Bulgarian poet of September poetry, the revolutionary lyric current named for the 1923 uprising; his poem Svadba remains one of the best-known works of the period.
Nikola Vaptsarov
Nikola Vaptsarov (Никола Вапцаров) was a Bulgarian poet, marine engineer, and communist revolutionary. Executed by firing squad in Sofia in 1942, he is best known for Motor Songs (1940), his only lifetime collection.
Nikolai Dobrolyubov
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (Николай Александрович Добролюбов, 1836–1861) was a Russian literary critic, publicist, and poet who led criticism at Sovremennik, developed "real criticism," and died of tuberculosis at twenty-five.
Nikolai Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, born Nikolai Vasilyevich Yanovsky, was a Russian-language prose writer of Ukrainian origin, counted among classics of Russian literature and a founder of Russian realism.
Nikolai Klyuev
Nikolai Klyuev (Николай Алексеевич Клюев, 1884–1937) was a Russian poet of peasant origin who led the new peasant current in Silver Age poetry and was shot under Stalin.
Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Николай Лесков, 1831–1895), Russian writer and critic, pseudonym M. Stebnitsky, author of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The Enchanted Wanderer, and Levsha, master of skaz oral-style narration.
Nikolai Nekrasov
Nikolai Nekrasov (Николай Некрасов, 1821–1877) was a Russian poet, editor, and publisher who made peasant life his central subject and ran Sovremennik, the leading literary journal of his day.
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Николай Островский, 1904–1936) was a Soviet writer who, bedridden and nearly blind, wrote the largely autobiographical novel How the Steel Was Tempered, a classic of socialist realism.
Nikolai Rubtsov
Nikolai Rubtsov (Николай Михайлович Рубцов, 1936–1971) was a Soviet Russian lyric poet, leading figure of the "quiet lyric" current, known for "Star of the Fields".
Nikolai Strakhov
Nikolai Strakhov, full name Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov (Николай Николаевич Страхов, 1828–1896), was a Russian philosopher, publicist, and literary critic, an ideologist of pochvennichestvo and Dostoevsky's first biographer.
Nikolai Yazykov
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Yazykov (Николай Михайлович Языков, 1803–1846) was a Russian Romantic poet and friend of Pushkin, famed for student songs, elegies, and mastery of language.
Nikolai Zabolotsky
Nikolai Zabolotsky, born Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky (1903–1958), was a Russian Soviet poet and translator, a founder of OBERIU known for the grotesque collection Stolbtsy and clear late lyrics.
Nikolay Liliev
Nikolay Liliev (Николай Лилиев), born Nikolay Mihaylov Popivanov in 1885, was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet and National Theatre dramaturg, known for Birds in the Night.
Nikoloz Baratashvili
Nikoloz Baratashvili (ნიკოლოზ ბარათაშვილი), born in Tbilisi in 1817, was a Georgian Romantic poet considered a founder of modern Georgian literature; he died in Ganja in 1845.
Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης)
Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, 1883–1957), Cretan-born Greek novelist, poet, and essayist; author of Askitiki, the 33,333-verse Odyssey, Zorba the Greek, and The Last Temptation of Christ; Nobel runner-up, denounced by the Orthodox Church.
Nil Hilevich
Nil Hilevich (Ніл Гілевіч; 30 September 1931 – 29 March 2016) was a Belarusian poet, folklorist, and translator named People's Poet of Belarus in 1991 who helped draft the 1990 law on languages.
Nilmani Phookan
Nilmani Phookan (নীলমণি ফুকন), often distinguished as Nilmani Phookan Jr., was an Indian poet who wrote in Assamese and won India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, in 2021.
Nils Collett Vogt
Nils Collett Vogt (1864–1937) was a Norwegian writer remembered first and foremost as a lyric poet, though he also wrote novels, plays, and memoirs; his breakthrough was Fra Vaar til Høst (1894).
Nils Ferlin
Nils Ferlin (1898–1961) was a Swedish poet whose melancholy yet humorous verse about loneliness and poor, unlucky people made him one of Sweden's most beloved poets.
Nima Yooshij
Nima Yooshij (نیما یوشیج), pen name of Ali Esfandiari, was an Iranian poet, 1897–1960, regarded as the father of modern Persian poetry and founder of she'r-e now.
Nina Berberova
Nina Berberova (Нина Николаевна Берберова, 1901–1993) was a Russian writer of the emigration known for fiction about the Russian diaspora and her autobiography The Italics Are Mine.
Nine Leaves
The Nine Leaves poets (九叶诗派, "Nine Leaves School") were nine Chinese modernist poets who published in Shanghai in the 1940s, fusing reality, symbolism, and metaphysics; the name was coined in 1979.
Ninon de l'Enclos
Ninon de l'Enclos (Anne de Lenclos, c. 1620–1705) was a French courtesan, Epicurean letter writer, and salonnière of Louis XIV's Paris; her salon at the Hôtel de Sagonne drew Molière, Saint-Évremond, and Racine, and her Sévigné letters are spurious.
Niq Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo, born 1973 in Soweto, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and editor best known for his debut novel Dog Eat Dog (2004).
Niranjan Bhagat
Niranjan Bhagat (નિરંજન ભગત; 1926–2018) was an Indian poet and critic who wrote principally in Gujarati, known for urban, modernist poetry and the eight-volume critical work Swadhyaylok.
Nirendranath Chakraborty
Nirendranath Chakraborty (নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তী, 1924–2018) was an Indian Bengali poet, novelist, and editor who won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award for Ulanga Raja and wrote the widely quoted poem "Kolkatar Jishu".
Nirmal Verma
Nirmal Verma (निर्मल वर्मा, 1929–2005) was an Indian Hindi writer, novelist, and translator, a pioneer of the Nayi Kahani movement who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001.
Nishiyama Sōin
Nishiyama Sōin (西山宗因, 1605–1682) was a Japanese renga poet of the early Edo period, traditionally credited as founder of the free, colloquial Danrin school of haikai.
Nissar Ahmed
K. S. Nissar Ahmed (1936–2020) was an Indian Kannada poet and geology professor best known for "Nityotsava", a celebration of Karnataka's landscape that became a fixture of Kannada light music.