Contemporary
Discover the latest and greatest celebrities in the contemporary entertainment scene. From actors and musicians to influencers and entrepreneurs, our comprehensive list showcases the most prominent figures shaping today's culture.
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Sergio Badilla Castillo
 ChileChilean poet.
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Paruir Sevak
 ArmeniaArmenian poet and literary critic, Doctor of Philology, laureate of the State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1967)
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Georgos Seferis
 GreeceGreek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1963
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Jean Cocteau
 FranceFrench avant-garde writer, film director, actor and artist.
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John Davidson
 Great BritainBritish poet and writer
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Octavio Paz
 MexicoMexican poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1990
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Mahmoud Darwish
 PalestinePalestinian poet and writer
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Toshio Shimao
 JapanAn outstanding Japanese writer, one of the largest modernist writers in Japan of the 20th century.
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Richard Dehmel
 GermanyGerman poet and writer
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Jose Valente
 SpainSpanish poet, literary critic, translator of English and Italian poetry
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Vasilij Ruban
Russian writer
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Theo Dorgan
 IrelandIrish poet, writer and teacher
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Raim Farhadi
 UzbekistanUzbek poet, writer, playwright, journalist, translator and artist
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Luc Plamondon
 CanadaFamous French-speaking librettist and author of song lyrics.
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Germany German writer, Nobel laureate in 1912
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Giacomo Leopardi
 ItalyItalian poet
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Akakij Tsereteli
 GeorgiaOutstanding modern Georgian poet
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Grigor Tutunnik
Ukrainian writer and prose writer. Younger brother of the writer Grigory Tyutyunnik.
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Allen Ginsberg
 USAAmerican poet of the second half of the 20th century, founder of the Beat movement
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Haim Guri
 IsraelIsraeli poet, novelist, journalist and film director
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Mihail Pinchevski
 UkraineJewish poet, novelist, playwright
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Malcolm de Chazal
France East African poet and artist, wrote in French
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Alexandr Kusikov
Russian and partly Soviet poet
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Paul Celan
 RomaniaPoet, translator
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Haroldo De Campos
 BrazilBrazilian poet, translator and translation theorist
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Keizo Hino
Japan Japanese surrealist writer
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Francisco Coloane
Chile Chilean writer
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Roberto Bolano
Chile Poet from Chile, talented prose writer.
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Georg Weerth
Germany German 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.
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Tatiana Kuzovleva
 RussiaPoetess
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Nazim Hikmet
 TurkeyTurkish writer
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Fransisko Brines
Spain Spanish poet
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Gary Snyder
USA American writer, poet, translator, teacher
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Iosif Brodskiy
USA Poet, Nobel laureate
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Eduard Veydenbaum
 LatviaLatvian poet
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Itsik Manger
Israel Jewish poet who wrote in Yiddish.
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Salman Rushdie
Great Britain Poet
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Konrad Bayer
 AustriaAustrian writer, playwright and poet
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Lina Kostenko
Ukraine Ukrainian writer of the sixties
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Alexander Zharov
Russian Soviet poet
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Ivan Vazov
 BulgariaOne of the most famous Bulgarian poets
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Seamus Heaney
Ireland Irish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995
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Guy Davenport
USA American writer, translator, poet, essayist, artist.
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Boris Ryzhy
Russia Poet
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George Gordon Byron
Great Britain English romantic poet
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Olesya Nikolaeva
Russia Poetess
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Alina Vituhnovskaya
Russia Russian poetess.
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Charles Bernstein
USA American poet, writer, essayist, translator.
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Edmund Spencer
Great Britain English poet, contemporary of Shakespeare
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Tatyana Gnedych
Ukraine Russian translator and poet.
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