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.

Rasul Gamzatov
Russia
RussiaRussian poet, publicist and political figure.

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

Alexander Irvanets
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, translator.

Keizo Hino
Japan
JapanJapanese surrealist writer

Gerhart Hauptmann
Germany
GermanyGerman writer, Nobel laureate in 1912

Lev Losev
USA
USAFamous Russian poet, literary critic, essayist

Nikolay Shelgunov
Russia
RussiaFamous writer

Alina Vituhnovskaya
Russia
RussiaRussian poetess.

Petr Orlov
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, translator

Eliza Grinblat
USA
USAAmerican Jewish poet and songwriter

Theo Dorgan
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet, writer and teacher

Antonio Gamoneda
Italy
ItalyRepresentative of the "fifties generation".

Bob Kaufman
USA
USAAmerican poet and surrealist, representative of the Beat movement

Haim Guri
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet, novelist, journalist and film director

Natalia Varenik
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, novelist, journalist, teacher

George Gordon Byron
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish romantic poet

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

Malcolm de Chazal
France
FranceEast African poet and artist, wrote in French

Yves Bonnefoy
France
FranceFrench poet, prose writer, essayist, translator.

Maksim Bogdanovich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian poet

Philip Lamantia
USA
USAAmerican poet, teacher

Guy Davenport
USA
USAAmerican writer, translator, poet, essayist, artist.

Itsik Manger
Israel
IsraelJewish poet who wrote in Yiddish.

Vladimir Burich
Russia
RussiaRussian poet, versifier, translator; theorist and promoter of free verse

Kostas Karyotakis
Greece
GreeceGreek poet

Tatyana Gnedych
Ukraine
UkraineRussian translator and poet.

Tatiana Bek
Russia
RussiaPoetess

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

Iosif Brodskiy
USA
USAPoet, Nobel laureate

Mahmoud Darwish
Palestine
PalestinePalestinian poet and writer

Sven Stears
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish poet

Sofia Romma
USA
USAPoetess

Dmitriy Avaliani
Russia
RussiaPoet, palindromist.

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

Anastasiya Afanasyeva
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet

Pavel Grushko
Russia
RussiaPoet

Wilgelm Zorgenfrei
Poet

Peter Balakian
USA
USAAmerican poet, writer and explorer.

Eugenio De Signoribus
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

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

Vera Pavlova
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Jose Hierro
Spain
SpainSpanish poet of the first post-war generation

Boris Ryzhy
Russia
RussiaPoet

Bantsion Fradkin
Ukraine
UkraineJewish poet, playwright, translator

Ted Berrigan
USA
USAAmerican poet.

Edwin Arnold
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, journalist and publisher of the Victorian era.

Lina Kostenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer of the sixties

Volodimir Kalinichenko
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, prose writer and publicist

Charles Baudelaire
France
FranceFrench poet, creator of the sensational book 'Flowers of Evil'

Timofey Belozerov
Soviet poet, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR