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192 notable poets on file — 10 still here, 182 not.

more poets (1–100 of 152 beyond the first page)

Malcolm-Jamal Warner
dead
American actor
1970 – 2025
Bora Đorđević
dead
Serbian singer
1952 – 2024
Jørgen Leth
dead
Danish film director and poet
1937 – 2025
Jacques Roubaud
dead
French mathematician
1932 – 2024
Frankétienne
dead
Haitian artist and writer
1936 – 2025
Barbara Frischmuth
dead
Austrian writer
1941 – 2025
Meena Alexander
dead
poet, scholar, and writer
1951 – 2018
Eeva Kilpi
dead
Finnish author and poet
1928 – 2026
Abdulah Sidran
dead
Bosnian writer, poet and screenwriter
1944 – 2024
Madeleine Riffaud
dead
French poet
1924 – 2024
Jean-Pierre Faye
dead
French philosopher and writer
1925 – 2026
Aino Pervik
dead
Estonian writer
1932 – 2025
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
dead
Lebanese writer and poet
1936 – 2026
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
dead
poet, novelist and writer from the United States
1954 – 2026
Surjit Patar
dead
Indian Punjabi language poet and writer
1945 – 2024
Joxe Azurmendi
dead
Basque writer and philosopher
1941 – 2025
Eugen Gomringer
dead
Swiss-Bolivian poet
1925 – 2025
Fleur Adcock
dead
New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry
1934 – 2024
Conceição Lima
dead
São Tomé and Príncipe poet
1961 – 2026
John Sinclair
dead
American poet
1941 – 2024
Etelka Kenéz Heka
dead
Hungarian writer, poet, singer
1936 – 2024
Bashir Badr
dead
Indian poet of Urdu
1935 – 2026
Esther Jansma
dead
Dutch poet, writer and archeologist
1958 – 2025
Michael Longley
dead
Northern Irish poet
1939 – 2025
Girija Vyas
dead
Indian politician
1946 – 2025
Kūlīt al-Khūrī
dead
Syrian writer
1931 – 2026
Urszula Kozioł
dead
Polish poet, feuilletonist, and dramatist
1931 – 2025
Zoya Boguslavskaya
dead
Russian literary critic
1924 – 2026
Kristina Carlson
dead
Finnish journalist and writer
1949 – 2026
Ihor Kalynets
dead
Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident
1939 – 2025
Vitaly Korotich
dead
Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian poet and journalist
1936 – 2025
Yuriy Tarnawsky
dead
Ukrainian-American poet
1934 – 2025
Goran Petrović
dead
Serbian writer
1961 – 2024
Helen Vendler
dead
American literary critic
1933 – 2024
Carmen Berenguer
dead
Chilean poet
1946 – 2024
Jürgen Becker
dead
German poet and writer
1932 – 2024
Andrea Gibson
dead
American poet and activist
1975 – 2025
Astrid Roemer
dead
Surinamese author
1947 – 2026
Ádám Nádasdy
dead
(1947–2026) linguist, literary translator and poet
1947 – 2026
Olivera Katarina
dead
Serbian actor, singer and writer
1940 – 2026
Isaías Rodríguez
dead
Venezuelan politician and former Attorney General
1942 – 2025
Ottó Tolnai
dead
Serbo-Hungarian writer
1940 – 2025
Juan Calzadilla
dead
Venezuelan artist
1930 – 2025
Tony Harrison
dead
British poet and playwright
1937 – 2025
Fred Chappell
dead
American poet, novelist
1936 – 2024
Nuno Júdice
dead
Portuguese writer
1949 – 2024
Jerome Rothenberg
dead
American poet
1931 – 2024
Matilda Koen-Sarano
dead
Israeli writer and instructor of Ladino, scholar of Sephardic folklore
1939 – 2024
Jan Mårtenson
dead
Swedish writerand diplomat
1933 – 2026
Coleman Barks
dead
American poet
1937 – 2026
Josep Piera i Rubió
dead
Spanish writer and poet
1947 – 2026
Mukhtar Shakhanov
dead
Kazakhstani writer
1942 – 2026
Mary de Rachewiltz
dead
Italian-American poet and translator
1925 – 2026
Pritish Nandy
dead
Indian politician
1951 – 2025
Ljubomir Simović
dead
Serbian poet
1935 – 2025
Xuan Bello
dead
Spanish poet, author in Asturian language
1965 – 2025
Leonard Nolens
dead
Belgian writer
1947 – 2025
Munawwar Rana
dead
Indian poet
1952 – 2024
Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski
dead
Polish Armenian, Catholic priest of Armenian and Latin rites, long-time participant of the anti-communist opposition during the Polish People's Republic, writer, poet and publicist
1956 – 2024
Guy Goffette
dead
Belgian writer
1947 – 2024
Ernest Bryll
dead
Polish essayist, playwright, poet and author
1935 – 2024
Sidsel Mørck
dead
Norwegian writer
1937 – 2024
Kazuko Shiraishi
dead
Japanese poet
1931 – 2024
Charles Juliet
dead
French writer
1934 – 2024
Annie Le Brun
dead
French poet (1942 - 2024)
1942 – 2024
Alioune Badara Bèye
dead
Senegalese writer
1945 – 2024
Serge Monast
dead
Canadian writer
1945 – 1996
James Sallis
dead
American writer
1944 – 2026
Hidayat Orujov
dead
Azerbaijani politician
1944 – 2026
Nariman Hasanzada
dead
Azerbaijani writer and poet
1931 – 2026
Marjorie Agosín
dead
Chilean-American writer
1955 – 2025
Konstantin Kedrov
dead
Russian philosopher and literary critic
1942 – 2025
James Lloydovich Patterson
dead
Soviet child-actor, writer and naval officer
1933 – 2025
Fanny Howe
dead
American writer
1940 – 2025
Ellen Gilchrist
dead
American writer
1935 – 2024
Titinga Frédéric Pacéré
dead
Burkinabe writer, poet, lawyer and museum curator
1943 – 2024
Ali Krasniqi
dead
Romani writer and activist
1952 – 2024
Michiko Yamamoto
dead
Japanese writer
1936 – 2026
Uladzimir Karyzna
dead
Belarusian poet, co-writer of the national anthem
1938 – 2026
Jagannath Prasad Das
dead
Indian (Odia) Writer
1936 – 2026
Mikhail Nozhkin
dead
Russian actor and poet
1937 – 2026
Edward Lucie-Smith
dead
British art critic, writer and curator
1933 – 2026
Lucienne Stassaert
dead
Belgian poet
1936 – 2026
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
dead
Brazilian writer
1937 – 2025
Anthony Phelps
dead
Haitian writer and poet
1928 – 2025
Paulette Jiles
dead
Canadian writer
1943 – 2025
José Ortega Torres
dead
Spanish poet
1943 – 2025
Vinod Kumar Shukla
dead
Indian writer
1937 – 2025
Claude Pujade-Renaud
dead
French writer and choreographer
1932 – 2024
John Burnside
dead
Scottish writer and academic
1955 – 2024
Jenny Mastoraki
dead
Greek poet and translator
1949 – 2024
Hettie Jones
dead
American writer
1934 – 2024
Jacques Réda
dead
French poet
1929 – 2024
Keki N. Daruwalla
dead
Indian English language poet
1937 – 2024
Shamshad Abdullaev
dead
Soviet poet
1957 – 2024
Kalin Terziyski
dead
Bulgarian writer
1970 – 2026
Sia Figiel
dead
contemporary Samoan novelist, poet and painter
1967 – 2026
Alojz Ihan
dead
doctor, microbiologist, immunologist, poet and writer
1961 – 2026
Jeelani Bano
dead
Indian writer
1936 – 2026
Jahanara Arzu
dead
Bangladeshi poet
1932 – 2026

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