 | Ann V. Christie is an American poet. more » |
| Dr. A. Abdullah, Chairman, Board of Trustees and Founding President of The Federation of Aligarh... more » |
 | Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He... more » |
| Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. more » |
 | Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan also known as A. K. Ramanujan was a scholar of Indian literature... more » |
| A. N. Prahlada Rao is an Indian author and Kannada crossword writer Crossword who has created... more » |
 | Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in... more » |
 | Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE, known as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker... more » |
| A. Van Jordan is an American poet. more » |
 | Aapo Ilves is an Estonian poet, writer, artist and musician. He writes in Estonian, Võro and... more » |
| Aaron Abeyta is a poet. more » |
| Aaron Hill was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The son of a country gentleman of... more » |
| Bhagavatula Sadasiva Shankara Sastry, known by his pen-name Arudra, is a highly respected author... more » |
| Abay Qunanbayuli was a great Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher. He was also a cultural... more » |
 | Abba Kovner Hebrew: אבא קובנר was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader... more » |
| Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad was an Egyptian writer, and member of the Arab Academy. more » |
 | Abbas Ibn Firnas, also known as Abbas Abu Al-Qasim Ibn Firnas Ibn Wirdas al-Takurini, was a... more » |
| Abbie Huston Evans was an American poet, and teacher. more » |
| Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed 'Timacade' was a Somali poet. He was among the most prominent bards... more » |
| Abdoulaye Ascofaré is a Malian poet and filmmaker. more » |
 | Abdourahman A. Waberi is novelist, essayist, poet, academic and short-story writer. more » |
 | Abdul Hamid II was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last Sultan to exert effective... more » |
.jpg/226px-Dr_Abdul_Latif_Pedram_(cropped).jpg "Abdul Latif Pedram") | Abdul Latīf Pedrām, Ph.D., is a politician and a Member of Parliament in Afghanistan. He emerged... more » |
| Abdul Rahman Mansour is a poet. more » |
| Abdul Rahman Yusuf is an Egyptian poet who writes original poetry, maintaining the rules of... more » |
 | Alişev Ğabdullacan Ğäbdelbari ulı, best known as Abdulla Aliş was a Soviet Tatar poet,... more » |
| Abdulla Goran was a Kurdish poet. He undoubtedly brought about a revolution in Kurdish poetry,... more » |
 | Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud was a senior member of House of Saud. He held several cabinet posts... more » |
| Abdulrahman bin Musa'ad bin Abdul Aziz is a son of late Prince Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,... more » |
| Abdurrahim Karakoc is a poet and journalist. more » |
 | Abdurrahman Sharafkandi or Hazhar or Hajar, was a renowned Kurdish writer, poet, linguist, and... more » |
| Abena P. A. Busia is the sister of Akosua Busia. more » |
| Aberjhani is an American historian, columnist, novelist, poet, and editor. Although well known... more » |
| Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and... more » |
| Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol or Abioseh Nicol was a Sierra Leonean academic,... more » |
| Abraham Burickson is an award-winning American poet and conceptual artist. more » |
 | Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was... more » |
 | The Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States... more » |
| أبو بكر سالم بلفقيه، مغني وملحن وشاعر واديب حضرمي يحمل الجنسية السعودية منذ سبعينيات القرن... more » |
| Abu Firas al-Hamdani was an Arab poet. He was a cousin of Sayf al-Dawla and a member of the... more » |
 | Al-Zeir Abu layla almuhalhl Adi ibn Rabia', whose real name was Adi bin Rabi'a, was a poet and... more » |
 | Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī, known as Abū Nuwās, was one of the greatest classical... more » |
 | Abu Tammam was an Abbasid era Arab poet and Muslim convert born to Christian parents. more » |
| Abusa'id Abolkhayr or Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed, was a... more » |
 | Abuzar Abdulhakimovich Aydamirov, Russian: Абузар Абдулхакимович Айдамиров was a Chechen... more » |
| Acharya Kuber Nath Rai was a writer and scholar of Hindi Literature and Sanskrit. more » |
 | Ada Negri was an Italian poet and writer. more » |
 | Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician,... more » |
 | Adam Fitzgerald is an American poet. He is the author of The Late Parade, and his poetry has... more » |
 | Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet. more » |
| Adam Gottlieb is a poet. more » |
| Adam Horovitz is a British poet. He is the son of the poets Michael Horovitz and Frances Horovitz. more » |
| Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic. more » |
| Adam LeFevre is an American character actor, poet and playwright who works in cinema,... more » |
 | Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator,... more » |
.jpg/211px-Adam_Oehlenschlaeger_(1825_painting).jpg "Adam Oehlenschläger"){kind=spacer} | Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into... more » |
| Adam Thorpe is a British poet, novelist and playwright whose works also include short stories... more » |
 | Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2004... more » |
| Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. more » |
 | Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester,... more » |
 | Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy was a French poet and painter from Brittany. The daughter of Jacques... more » |
 | Adelino Fontoura Chaves was a Brazilian poet, actor and journalist. He is the patron of the 1st... more » |
| Adile Sultan was an Ottoman princess, a female Diwan poet, and a philanthropist. She was the... more » |
| Adnan al-Sayegh, "is one of the most original voices from the generation of Iraqi poets known as... more » |
 | Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend... more » |
 | Adolfo Ferreira Caminha was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel... more » |
| Adon Lacroix was a poet. more » |
| Adrian Blevins is an American poet. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is... more » |
| Adrian Brown is a British theatre, television director and poet. He was nominated for a BAFTA... more » |
| Adrian Henri was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group... more » |
 | Adrian Matejka is an African-American poet. He graduated from Southern Illinois University... more » |
| Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he... more » |
 | Adrian Păunescu was a Romanian poet, journalist, and politician. Though criticised for praising... more » |
 | Adriano Banchieri was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late... more » |
| Adrien Stoutenburg was an American poet and a prolific writer of juvenile literature. Her poetry... more » |
| Adrienne Ferreira is a poet and short story writer. more » |
 | Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the... more » |
 | Agata Tuszynska is a Polish writer, poet and journalist. more » |
 | Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE was an English crime writer of novels, short stories,... more » |
| Agha Bismil is an Indian Urdu poet. more » |
 | Agha Shahid Ali was a poet. His collections include A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, The... more » |
| Agha Shorish Kashmiri was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam... more » |
 | Agnes Günther was a writer. more » |
 | Agnes Strickland was an English historical writer and poet. more » |
| Agneta Falk is a poet, writer and artist. more » |
 | Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. Among... more » |
 | Agnieszka Osiecka was a poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film... more » |
 | Agniya Lvovna Barto, was a Russian Soviet poet and children's writer of Jewish origin. more » |
 | Ahmad Faraz was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He was acclaimed one of the modern Urdu poets of the last... more » |
 | Ahmad Javad was an Azerbaijani poet. Javad is most remembered for writing the words of the... more » |
| Ahmad Khani, Ahmad-i Khani or Ehmede Xani was a Kurdish writer, poet, Sunni Muslim cleric, and... more » |
| Ahmad Rahi was a Punjabi poet and writer. He was born in Amritsar.His real name was Ghulam Ahmad... more » |
 | Sheikh Ahmad Rida was an Levantine Arab linguist, writer and politician. A key figure of the... more » |
| Ahmad Shafiq Kamil is a poet. more » |
 | Ahmad Shamloo was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most... more » |
.jpg/266px-Ahmadreza_Ahmadi_13920307122743843_(cropped).jpg "Ahmadreza Ahmadi") | Ahmadreza Ahmadi is an Iranian poet and screenwriter.The history of Persian modern poetry calls... more » |
 | Ahmed Alaidy, أحمد العايدي, is an Egyptian novelist, born on December 24, 1974. He is the author... more » |
| Ahmed Arif was a Kurdish poet of Turkey. Ahmed Arif studied philosophy at Ankara University... more » |
 | Ahmed Fouad Negm, popularly known as el-Fagommi الفاجومي, was an Egyptian vernacular poet. Negm... more » |
| Ahmed Ramy was an Egyptian poet, songwriter and translator. He is best known for writing lyrics... more » |
 | Ahmed Shawqi, also written as Ahmed Chawki, nicknamed Amīr al-Shu‘arā’, was one of the greatest... more » |
 | Ahmed Cevdet Pasha was an Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and... more » |
 | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish... more » |
 | Ahmet Haşim was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century. more » |
 | Ahmet Kaya was an Kurdish singer from Malatya, Turkey, who died on November 16, 2000 in exile in... more » |
| Ahmet Kutsi Tecer was a Turkish poet and politician. more » |
| Ahmet Muhip Dıranas was a leading Turkish poet and author. more » |
.jpg/273px-Ahmet_Ümit_at_Kocaeli_Book_Exhibition,_May_2016_(2).jpg "Ahmet Ümit") | Ahmet Ümit is a Turkish author and poet best known for his work crime novels in thrillers. more » |
 | Ahren Warner is a British poet born in 1986. more » |
.jpg "Ahsan Habib") | Ahsan Habib was a Bangladeshi poet and literary figure in Bengali culture. He was born in a... more » |
| Florence Anthony was an American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa. She... more » |
| Aì Qīng, is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets. He was known under his pen names... more » |
 | Aidan Baker is a musician from Toronto, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo... more » |
 | Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a Francophone poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was... more » |
| Aino Pervik is an Estonian writer, poet and translator. more » |
.jpg "Ajmal Khattak") | Ajmal Khattak was a Pakistani politician, writer, Pashtun poet, Khudai Khidmatgar, former... more » |
| Akala is an English rapper, poet, and journalist. Originally from Kentish Town, Camden, London,... more » |
 | Akbar Hussain Rizvi, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi, was an Indian Urdu poet. more » |
 | Åke Hodell was a Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist. Son of... more » |
| Akhlaq Mohammad Khan Shahryar, was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India... more » |
 | Akhtar Raza Saleemi is a Pakistani Urdu, Hindko and Potohari poet,writer, critic and editor. His... more » |
 | Akhtar ul Iman was a noted Urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who had a major influence... more » |
| Akiane Kramarik is an American poet and artist. more » |
 | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, popularly known as Akkitham, is a Malayalam language poet. He was... more » |
 | Al Alvarez is an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who publishes under the name A... more » |
| Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing... more » |
| Al Young is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. On May 15, 2005... more » |
| Hammam ibn Ghalib Abu Firas, commonly known as al-Farazdaq was an Arab poet. He was born in... more » |
 | Abu at-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Mutanabbi was an Arab Iraqi poet. He is considered as one... more » |
| Abu ʿAbdillah Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i was a Muslim jurist, who lived from. He was active... more » |
| Aladár Madách was a Hungarian poet and novelist and the son of famous writer and poet, Imre Madách. more » |
 | Alain Jouffroy, born on September 11, 1928 near Parc Montsouris, Paris, is a French writer, poet... more » |
 | Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the... more » |
 | Alain Tasso is a Franco-Lebanese poet, painter and essayist, born in Beirut on July 22, 1962. An... more » |
| Alan Chong Lau is an American poet, and artist. more » |
 | Alan Davies, is a contemporary American poet, critic, and editor who has been writing and... more » |
 | Alan Dugan was an American poet. His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the... more » |
 | Alan J. Hollinghurst FRSL is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is... more » |
| Alan Shapiro is an American poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University... more » |
 | Edward Alan Sullivan was a Canadian poet and author of short stories. He is noted for his 19135... more » |
| Alan Tucker is a poet. more » |
| Alastair Reid is a 1957 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts. more » |
| Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer. more » |
| Albert Flynn DeSilver is an American author, poet, artist, teacher, speaker, and publisher—born... more » |
| Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. He is known for his... more » |
| Albert Howell is a Canadian improv comedian and poet. He has appeared in several films and... more » |
| Albert Mobilio is an American poet and critic. He teaches at Eugene Lang College, the liberal... more » |
 | Albert Steffen was a poet, painter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist. He joined the... more » |
 | Albert Verwey was a Dutch poet associated with the "Movement of Eighty". He was a Dutch poet,... more » |
 | Alberto José Barrera Tyszka, is a Venezuelan writer. Awarded in 2006 with the Herralde Prize for... more » |
 | Alberto Blanco is considered one of Mexico's most important poets. Born in Mexico City on... more » |
| Alberto Correia de Lacerda was a Portuguese poet and BBC Radio Presenter. more » |
| Albina Shulgina is a screenwriter. more » |
.jpg/200px-26_Prêmio_da_Música_Brasileira_(18510130870).jpg "Alceu Valença") | Alceu Valença is a Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor, and poet. Alceu Valenca was... more » |
| Alden Albert Nowlan was a critically acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright more » |
 | Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director. more » |
,_Aldo_Palazzeschi.jpg/259px-Nunes_Vais,_Mario_(1856-1932),_Aldo_Palazzeschi.jpg "Aldo Palazzeschi") | Aldo Palazzeschi was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and... more » |
 | Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley was a British occultist, writer and mystic. He... more » |
| Alejandro Aura was a Mexican writer, essayist, poet, playwright and actor, as well as a culture... more » |
 | Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in... more » |
| Alejandro Murguía is an American poet, short story writer, and editor. He lives in San... more » |
.jpg/214px-Alejandro_Zambra_-_2015_National_Book_Festival_(4).jpg "Alejandro Zambra") | Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas is a Chilean poet, novelist, and literary critic. more » |
.JPG/224px-Aleksa_Santic_(cropped).JPG "Aleksa Šantić") | Aleksa Šantić was a Bosnian poet. He was the editor-in-chief of the review Zora. more » |
| Aleksander Borejko Chodźko was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist. more » |
 | Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in... more » |
| Aleksander Sergeyevich Griboyedov was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. He is... more » |
 | Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny is an actor, film director and poet. more » |
| Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many... more » |
 | Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet and writer, chief editor of Novy Mir literary... more » |
| Aleksandrs Čaks, born Aleksandrs Čadarainis, was a Latvian poet and writer. Čaks is arguably the... more » |
 | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet,... more » |
 | Aleksey Fyodorovich Merzlyakov was a Russian poet, critic, translator, and professor. more » |
 | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who... more » |
 | Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century, one of the... more » |
| Alenka Rebula Tuta is a Slovene writer, poetess, applied psychologist and a notable member of... more » |
 | Ales Prudnikau was a Belarusian poet. He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Pavel Prudnikau. more » |
 | Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the... more » |
| Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter. more » |
| Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov was a Russian opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and... more » |
| Alexander Baumgartner was a poet and writer on the history of literature. His father was Gallus... more » |
 | Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet. more » |
 | Alexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode... more » |
| Alexander Vasilyevich Dukhnovich was a priest, poet, writer, pedagogue, and social activist of... more » |
| Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin is a prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician. A... more » |
| Alexander Galich was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident. more » |
| Alexander Giorgisdze Matcharashvili - (Nadair Aarron Desmarashvili) Alexander Matcharashvili is an actor, film producer, musician, composer and poet. His screen... more » |
.jpg/262px-Alexander_Gradsky_(2019,_cropped).jpg "Alexander Gradsky") | Alexander Borisovich Gradsky is a Russian rock singer, bard, multi-instrumentalist and composer... more » |
 | Alexander Lernet-Holenia was an Austrian poet, novelist, dramaturgist and writer of screenplays... more » |
 | Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, or makar, born in Ayrshire. He was... more » |
 | Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his... more » |
_on_his_grave,_Warriston_Cemetery,_Edinburgh.JPG/200px-Portrait_head_of_Alexander_Smith_(poet)_on_his_grave,_Warriston_Cemetery,_Edinburgh.JPG "Alexander R. Smith") | Alexander Smith was a poet. more » |
| Alexander Smith was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. more » |
 | Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created... more » |
| Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps... more » |
 | Alexander Vasilyev is a singer, songwriter, and frontman of the Russian rock group "Splean"... more » |
 | Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer,... more » |
| Alexander Vulykh is a poet and songwriter. more » |
 | Alexander Nikolayevich Zhitinsky was a Russian writer and journalist. He used the pseudonyms... more » |
| Alexandra Grilikhes is a writer. more » |
| Alexandre Kimenyi was a Professor of Linguistics, Ethnic Studies and African Languages at... more » |
 | Alexandre Soumet was a French poet. more » |
 | Alexandros Panagoulis was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight... more » |
 | Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet. more » |
 | Alexandros Rizos Rangavis or Alexander Rizos Rangabe, was a Greek man of letters, poet and... more » |
 | Alexei Khvostenko was a Russian avant-garde poet, singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor... more » |
 | Alexios Schandermani is an Iranian German writer. more » |
 | Alf Ragnar Sten Henrikson was a Swedish author, poet and translator, known for his interest in... more » |
 | Alf Larsen was a Norwegian poet, essayist and magazine editor. He made his literary debut in... more » |
 | Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Argentine and Latin-American poets of the... more » |
 | Alfonso Gatto was an Italian author. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is... more » |
| Alfonso Vallejo is a Spanish playwright, poet, painter and neurologist. He has published 34... more » |
| Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his... more » |
| Alfred Hayes was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in... more » |
 | Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright, best known for his... more » |
 | Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during... more » |
| Alfredo Zitarrosa was a Uruguayan singer, composer, poet, writer and journalist. He is regarded... more » |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote... more » |
| Ali Jimale Ahmed is a Somali poet, essayist, scholar, and short story writer. more » |
| Ali Liebegott is an award-winning American author, poet, and teacher. She has taught creative... more » |
 | Ali Podrimja was an Albanian poet. He was born in Gjakova, at the time part of... more » |
| Ali Sardar Jafri was a prolific and versatile Urdu writer from India. He was also a poet, critic... more » |
| Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani was an Iranian writer, poet and journalist who died in prison under... more » |
 | Mīr 'Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAlī-Shīr Herawī was a Central Asian Turkic... more » |
 | Aliagha Vahid, born Aliagha Mammadqulu oglu Isgandarov, was an Azerbaijani poet and Honoured... more » |
 | Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was a Brazilian juvenile writer. She was born in Diamantina, Minas... more » |
 | Alice Duer Miller was an American writer and poet. more » |
| Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. more » |
| Alice Furlong was an Irish writer, poet and political activist who also worked on Irish... more » |
| Alice Goodman is an American poet and librettist. She is also an Anglican priest, working in... more » |
 | Alice Lok Cahana is an Hungarian Holocaust survivor. She was a teenage inmate in the... more » |
 | Alice Notley is an American poet. more » |
 | Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, self-claimed womanist, and activist. She... more » |
| Alicia D'Anvers [née Clarke] was an English poet. more » |
 | Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. She... more » |
| Alina Tugend is an American journalist, poet, public speaker and writer. writes "Shortcuts", a... more » |
.jpg/209px-Mrs_Alison_Cockburn_(cropped).jpg "Alison Cockburn") | Alison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn was a Scottish poet, wit and... more » |
| Alison Fell is a Scottish poet and novelist. more » |
.jpg/300px-Writers-resist-matsunaga-2017-1152_(31802728443).jpg "Alison Hawthorne Deming") | Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, and essayist. more » |
| Alison Prince is a British children's writer, screenwriter and biographer now settled on the... more » |
| Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father... more » |
 | Alix L. Olson is an American poet who works exclusively in spoken word. She graduated from... more » |
| AbdelKarim AlKabli is a Sudanese singer, poet, composer, songwriter and humanitarian known for... more » |
| Allen Braden is an American poet. more » |
| Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat... more » |
| Allen Grossman was a noted American poet, critic and professor. more » |
| Allen Mandelbaum was an American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator. He was... more » |
 | John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate... more » |
| Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning American and Canadian poet of mixed... more » |
| Allison Smythe is a poet. more » |
 | Alma Flor Ada is a writer. more » |
| Alma Luz Villanueva is a Mexican-American poet, short story writer, and novelist. more » |
 | João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese... more » |
| Aloysius Michael Sullivan was a United States poet, magazine editor, radio announcer and author... more » |
 | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was... more » |
 | Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães, known as Alphonsus de Guimaraens, was a Brazilian poet. The... more » |
| Alsom Pereira da Silva is the father of Leona Cavalli. more » |
| Alta Gerrey is an American poet, prose writer, and publisher, best known as the founder of the... more » |
| Altaf Gauhar was a civil servant, journalist, poet, and writer from Pakistan. He was born in... more » |
| Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and a lawyer. He wrote... more » |
 | Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright... more » |
 | Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo was an award-winning Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist and author of... more » |
| Alvin Aubert was a poet and scholar who championed African American culture and rural life along... more » |
| Alyona Svintsova is an actress, poet and singer. more » |
 | Amal El-Mohtar is an author. more » |
| Ambarish Srivastava is an Indian architectural engineer. more » |
| Amber Flora Thomas is a poet and writer. more » |
 | Amber Rose Tamblyn is an American actress and poet. She first came to national attention in her... more » |
 | Amelia Opie, née Alderson, was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic... more » |
_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall'Orto,_31-March-2008.jpg/300px-9013_-_Roma_-_Cimitero_acattolico_-_Tomba_Amelia_Rosselli_(1930-1996)_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall'Orto,_31-March-2008.jpg "Amelia Rosselli") | Amelia Rosselli was an Italian poet. She was the daughter of Marion Cave, an English political... more » |
.jpg/205px-Amina_Shah_(writer_and_storyteller).jpg "Amina Shah") | Amina Shah is a prominent anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales, and was for many years... more » |
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| Ana Tena Puy is an Aragonese writer in Ribagorçan Aragonese. more » |
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| Anatoly Trofimovich Serep, 1920 - 2003, was a Chuvash writer and poet. more » |
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| Andrea Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist who lives in Boulder, Colorado. Their poetry... more » |
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| Andrea Hollander is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Woman in the... more » |
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| Andrea Leone Tottola was a prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano... more » |
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| Andrea Stefani was a composer, singer and poet. more » |
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| Angela Jackson is an award-winning poet, playwright and writer based in Chicago. more » |
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| Ann Knox is an actress, novelist and poet. more » |
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 | Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian modernist... more » |
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| Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles was a Romanian-French writer. more » |
| Anna Hallberg (Sweden) is a poet and literary critic. more » |
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| Anna Journey is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts... more » |
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_b_0036.jpg/211px-Die_Gartenlaube_(1899)_b_0036.jpg "Anna Ritter"){kind=spacer} | Anna Ritter was a German poet and writer. more » |
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| Anna Trapnell was an alleged prophetess active in England in the 1650s, associated with the... more » |
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_(cropped).jpg/199px-Frontispiece_for_An_Account_of_Anne_Bradstreet_The_Puritan_Poetess,_and_Kindred_Topics,_edited_by_Colonel_Luther_Caldwell_(Boston,_1898)_(cropped).jpg "Anne Bradstreet") | Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American... more » |
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| Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in... more » |
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| Anne Compton is a Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist. more » |
 | Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was an English poet, the third child of Sir William... more » |
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| Anne Kennedy is a New Zealand poet, writer, and filmwriter. more » |
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_MET_DT287621.jpg/220px-Anne_Charlotte_Lynch_(Later_Mrs._Vincenzo_Botta)_MET_DT287621.jpg "Anne Lynch Botta") | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta was an American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was... more » |
_(cropped).jpg/244px-Anne_Michaels_-_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_-_2013_(DanH-0169)_(cropped).jpg "Anne Michaels") | Anne Michaels is a Canadian poet and novelist. more » |
.jpg/160px-Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh_LCCN2012647141_(cropped).jpg "Anne Morrow Lindbergh") | Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the wife of fellow aviator Charles... more » |
| Anne Pierson Wiese, is an American poet. more » |
| Anne Plumptre was an English writer and translator. She was born in Norwich. She and her sister,... more » |
| Anne Porter is the poet. more » |
 | Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the... more » |
 | Annie Bethel Spencer was an American poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and... more » |
 | Anne Steele, English hymn writer, was born at Broughton, Hampshire. The drowning of her... more » |
 | Anne Stevenson is an American-British poet and writer. more » |
| Anne Szumigalski, SOM was a Canadian poet. more » |
 | Anne Waldman is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the... more » |
| Anne Whateley is the name of a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of... more » |
| Anne Wilkinson was a Canadian poet who was part of the modernist movement in Canadian poetry in... more » |
 | Annemarie Jacir Arabic: آن ماري جاسر is a Palestinian filmmaker and poet. more » |
 | Anni Milja Maaria Sinnemäki is a Finnish politician and a member of the Finnish Parliament,... more » |
 | Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and... more » |
 | Annie Finch is an American poet. She is author of numerous books of poetry as well as poetry... more » |
| Sylvia Anne "Annie" Reiner is an American author, playwright and poet. She is the daughter of... more » |
 | Alexander Kingdom Nik-o "Anno" Birkin was an English poet and musician. His relations include... more » |
.jpeg/216px-Antanas_Baranauskas_in_1899_portrait_(cropped).jpeg "Antanas Baranauskas") | Antanas Baranauskas was a Lithuanian poet, mathematician and a catholic bishop of Sejny... more » |
 | 'Antarah Ibn Shaddād al-'Absī عنترة بن شداد العبسي was a pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet famous... more » |
.jpg/243px-Antero_de_Quental_(ca._1887).jpg "Antero de Quental") | Antero Tarquínio de Quental, was a Portuguese poet, philosopher and writer, whose works became a... more » |
 | John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an... more » |
| Anthony Cronin is an Irish poet, novelist, biographer, critic, commentator and arts activist. He... more » |
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 | Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a... more » |
| Anthony Kerrigan was a translator and poet. more » |
| Anthony Kok (1882 – 1969) was a poet associated with the deStijl art movement. more » |
| Anthony Lucero is an actor, a screenwriter and a film director. more » |
| Anthony Petrosky is an American poet, and professor. more » |
| Anthony Walton is an American poet and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of a... more » |
 | Antjie Krog is a prominent South African poet, academic and writer. In 2004 she joined the Arts... more » |
 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry,... more » |
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 | Anton Pann, was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet,... more » |
| Antón Reixa is a film producer and an actor. more » |
| Anton Schnack was a German writer. He joined the German Army when World War I began. He is one... more » |
_1932.jpg/239px-Anton_Wildgans_(1881–1932)_1932.jpg "Anton Wildgans") | Anton Wildgans was an Austrian poet and playwright. He was born in Vienna, and died in... more » |
 | Antoni Lange was a Polish poet, philosopher, polyglot, writer, novelist, science-writer,... more » |
 | Antoni Malczewski was an influential Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, "a narrative... more » |
 | Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French playwright, poet,... more » |
| Antonio Alatorre Chávez was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his... more » |
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_cut.png "Antonio Correia de Oliveira") | Antonio Correia de Oliveira is a Portuguese poet. more » |
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.jpg/209px-Antonio_Gala_(1989).jpg "Antonio Gala") | Antonio Gala Velasco is a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist and writer. more » |
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| Antonio Mirabal González was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, and historian. more » |
 | Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro, 2nd Baron of Itamaracá Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro, 2nd Baron of Itamaracá was a Brazilian poet, orator,... more » |
 | Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement... more » |
 | António Ribeiro, who became known as "O Chiado" or "O Poeta Chiado" was born in poor... more » |
 | Antonio Rodríguez Salvador, is a poet, fiction writer, dramatist and essayist. Salvador was born... more » |
 | Antonio Salvi was an Italian physician, court poet and librettist. He was in the service of the... more » |
 | Antonio Veneziano was an Italian poet who wrote mainly in Sicilian. He is considered among the... more » |
 | Andonis Fostieris is a Greek poet. He studied Law at the University of Athens and History of Law... more » |
 | Antun Branko Šimić was a Herzegovinian Croat expressionist poet. more » |
 | Antun Gustav Matoš was a Croatian poet, short story writer, journalist, essayist and travelogue... more » |
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 | Anuradha Sharma Pujari is an influential Assamese journalist and author. She is the editor of... more » |
 | Anwar Maqsood Hameedi commonly known as Anwar Maqsood is a Pakistani scriptwriter, television... more » |
 | Anwar Masood, is a Pakistani poet known for his comic poetry, however, his works include other... more » |
 | Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, the first English professional... more » |
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| Apollonius of Rhodes, floruit first half of 3rd century BCE, is best known as the author of the... more » |
| April Bernard is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from... more » |
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| Araros was the son of Aristophanes. more » |
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| Ariadna Ambrozieva was the wife of George Lövendal. more » |
| Ariadna Efron was a translator, poet, artist and memoirist. more » |
| Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis is a poet and an assistant professor. more » |
| Ariel Bonaventura Kalinowski is an artist and a poet. more » |
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 | Arik Brauer is an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer and stage... more » |
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| Arion was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb:... more » |
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| Armand Gatti is a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and former WW II... more » |
.jpg/237px-Arna_Bontemps_(1939).jpg "Arna Bontemps") | Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps was an African-American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted... more » |
 | Arno Holz was a German naturalist poet and dramatist. He is best known for his poetry collection... more » |
| Arnold Adoff is an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of... more » |
| Aron Sipos is a film producer. more » |
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 | Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky was a prominent Soviet poet and translator. He is considered one... more » |
 | Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, poet, and Golden... more » |
 | Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KGStJ, DL was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted... more » |
| Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer Arthur Stringer was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United... more » |
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| Arto Matti Vihtori Melleri was a Finnish poet and writer. Melleri gained fame with the play,... more » |
 | Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish... more » |
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| Arun Budhathoki, also known as Daniel Song, is a Nepali poet and fiction writer from Kathmandu,... more » |
 | Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and... more » |
 | Arunabh Sarkar is a Bangladeshi poet, Columnist, Literary Editor & a Freedom Fighter.Born at... more » |
 | Arvid Hanssen was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, poet, novelist and children's... more » |
 | Arvid Mörne was a Finnish author and poet. He obtained a Masters degree in literature and... more » |
| Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is a noted Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator. more » |
| Arvind S. Nadkarni was a Kannada poet from Andheri, who was awarded the Karnataka Sahitya... more » |
 | Arvo Turtiainen was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1973. more » |
 | Asad Chowdhury is a poet, writer, translator, radio, TV personality and journalist, as well as a... more » |
| Ashapoorna Devi, also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and... more » |
 | Ashley Anthony Chin is an English actor, screenwriter, spoken word performance poet and former... more » |
| Ashok Anjum is a Hindi author of comedic poetry. He was born into a Brahmin family at Village... more » |
 | Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, also known as Mahsuni Şerif, was a folk musician, ashik, composer, poet, and... more » |
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| Askia M. Toure is a poet, activist, and a pioneer of Africana studies movement. more » |
_(15252253971).jpg/300px-Portrett_av_Aslaug_Vaa_(utsnitt_av_større_ark)_(15252253971).jpg "Aslaug Vaa") | Aslaug Vaa was a Norwegian poet and playwright. more » |
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 | Assi Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician and producer. He was part of the Rahbani... more » |
 | Aster Gayavi was born in Gaya Bihar, Birth name is Azhar Sabri 'Aster' is a takhallus n... more » |
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 | Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry... more » |
 | Ataol Behramoğlu is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator. more » |
 | Atena-Svyatomyra Pashko was the third wife of politician Viacheslav Chornovil. more » |
| Athos Dimoulas was an award-winning Greek poet. He studied civil engineering at the National... more » |
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| Attilâ İlhan was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer. more » |
 | John Baine, better known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker, is a punk poet, and a folk... more » |
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| Atul Singh is an Indian-born former lawyer, current affairs lecturer, and the founder and... more » |
 | Audre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer and civil rights activist. more » |
| Audrey Ostlin Hansen is a poet. more » |
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 | August Kleinzahler is an American poet. more » |
 | August Stramm was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the... more » |
 | Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A... more » |
| Augusta Gregory was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager more » |
| Aurelia Plath was the wife of Otto Plath, mother of the American poet, Sylvia Plath, and a son,... more » |
 | Aureliano José Lessa was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. Born in... more » |
| Aurora Cornu is a poet and was the first wife of novelist Marin Preda. more » |
 | Ausiàs March was a medieval Valencian poet and knight from Gandia, Valencia. He is considered as... more » |
.jpg/200px-Avetik_Isahakyan_(photo).jpg "Avetik Isahakyan") | Avetik Isahakyan was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer and public activist. more » |
 | Awaz Sayeed, full name Awaz Bin Sayeed, was a renowned modern short-story writer, poet,... more » |
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| Ayman Bahgat Kamar is a poet, songwriter, film score composer and screenwriter. more » |
 | Dr K. Ayyappa Paniker, sometimes spelt "Ayyappa Panicker" was an influential Malayalam poet,... more » |
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 | Azhar Sabri, basically belong from a remote village belwar which is in gaya distt biha... more » |
 | Aziz Mian Qawwal was one of Pakistan's leading traditional qawwals and also famous for singing... more » |
