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.

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

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

George Gordon Byron
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish romantic poet

Blanka Andreu
Spain
SpainPoetess

Junzo Shono
Japan
JapanJapanese writer, representative of the literary group "third new".

Maksim Bogdanovich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian poet

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

Natalia Varenik
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, novelist, journalist, teacher

Lina Kostenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer of the sixties

Theo Dorgan
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet, writer and teacher

Giacomo Leopardi
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Jean Cocteau
France
FranceFrench avant-garde writer, film director, actor and artist.

Leon Dierx
France
FranceFrench poet

Christian Morgenstern
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, writer and translator, classic of German literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries

Natalya Khatkina
Ukraine
UkrainePoetess

Yaroslav Seyfert
Czech poet, Nobel laureate in 1984.

Edmund Blunden
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, writer and critic

Mahmoud Darwish
Palestine
PalestinePalestinian poet and writer

Boris Ryzhy
Russia
RussiaPoet

Olesya Nikolaeva
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Vera Inber
Ukraine
UkrainePoetess, prose writer

Naum Korgavin
USA
USAPoet

Novella Matveeva
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Yoji Arakawa
Japan
JapanContemporary Japanese Gendaishi poet and essayist

Grigor Tutunnik
Ukrainian writer and prose writer. Younger brother of the writer Grigory Tyutyunnik.

Rasul Gamzatov
Russia
RussiaRussian poet, publicist and political figure.

Samuil Marshak
Poet, translator

Octavio Paz
Mexico
MexicoMexican poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1990

Don Black
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet

Eugenio De Signoribus
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Akakij Tsereteli
Georgia
GeorgiaOutstanding modern Georgian poet

Vladimir Sirenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet, prose writer, editor, correspondent

Jose Iglesias De las Casas
Spain
SpainSpanish poet.

Vasilis Amanatidis
Greece
GreeceGreek poet, art critic, curator

Trevor Joyce
Great Britain
Great BritainIrish poet

Kazimierz Wierzynsk
Poland
PolandPolish poet, novelist, essayist

Allen Hinsberg
USA
USAAmerican beat poet

Vladas Braziunas
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, essayist, translator

Auguste Lacaussade
France
FranceFrench writer, poet

Keizo Hino
Japan
JapanJapanese surrealist writer

Sergey Kule
Russian poet

Robert Duncan
USA
USAAmerican poet

Lev Losev
USA
USAFamous Russian poet, literary critic, essayist

Haroldo De Campos
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian poet, translator and translation theorist

Tatiana Kuzovleva
Russia
RussiaPoetess

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

Toshio Shimao
Japan
JapanAn outstanding Japanese writer, one of the largest modernist writers in Japan of the 20th century.

Yaroslav Smelyakov
Poet

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.

Boris Poplavskiy
France
FranceProminent poet and prose writer of the Russian diaspora