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Alexander Blagov
Russian poet

Tatyana Gnedych
Ukraine
UkraineRussian translator and poet.

Eleonor Roosevelt
USA
USADiplomat, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Ted Berrigan
USA
USAAmerican poet.

Amiri Baraka
USA
USAAfrican American poet, novelist, essayist and critic

Antonio Gamoneda
Italy
ItalyRepresentative of the "fifties generation".

Georgos Seferis
Greece
GreeceGreek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1963

Ernst Balcke
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Bantsion Fradkin
Ukraine
UkraineJewish poet, playwright, translator

Alexander Irvanets
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, translator.

Vasiliy Belov
Russia
RussiaProse writer

Edmund Spencer
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, contemporary of Shakespeare

Georg Weerth
Germany
GermanyGerman poet. Engels called him 'the first and most significant poet of the German proletariat'. Friend of K. Marx and F. Engels. In the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary years, he devoted his work entirely to the proletariat.

Nikolay Rubtsov
Russia
RussiaPoet

Meysey Goto
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Tatiana Galushko
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Pavel Grushko
Russia
RussiaPoet

Jose Iglesias De las Casas
Spain
SpainSpanish poet.

Jure KASTELAN
Croatia
CroatiaOne of the greatest poets of Croatia

Yaroslav Smelyakov
Poet

Paul Celan
Romania
RomaniaPoet, translator

Philip Larkin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet

Novella Matveeva
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Anthony Hecht
USA
USAAmerican poet and critic

Lev Losev
USA
USAFamous Russian poet, literary critic, essayist

Yakov Lipkin
Poet, prose writer, translator, philosopher

Natalia Varenik
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, novelist, journalist, teacher

Paruir Sevak
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian poet and literary critic, Doctor of Philology, laureate of the State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1967)

Giacomo Leopardi
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Gary Snyder
USA
USAAmerican writer, poet, translator, teacher

Seamus Heaney
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995

Jose Maria Alvarez
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, writer and translator

Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
France
FranceFrench avant-garde poet and writer

Haroldo De Campos
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian poet, translator and translation theorist

Allen Ginsberg
USA
USAAmerican poet of the second half of the 20th century, founder of the Beat movement

Itsik Manger
Israel
IsraelJewish poet who wrote in Yiddish.

Kostas Karyotakis
Greece
GreeceGreek poet

Dmitriy Lazutkin
Ukraine
UkraineRussian and Ukrainian poet living in Ukraine

Andre Breton
France
FranceFrench poet, one of the founders of surrealism

Naum Korgavin
USA
USAPoet

Ilarie Voronca
Romania
RomaniaRomanian and French poet.

Izyaslav Vinterman
Israel
IsraelIsraeli Russian poet.

Frederick Rolfe
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, prose writer, translator.

Vladimir Kirillov
Russian Soviet poet, belonged to the so-called "proletarian poetry"

Vasilij Ruban
Russian writer

Alexander Zharov
Russian Soviet poet

George Gordon Byron
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish romantic poet

Iosif Brodskiy
USA
USAPoet, Nobel laureate

Samuil Marshak
Poet, translator

Alfred Bruce Douglas
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet and translator