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Latin literature (2,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature
Amir Khusrau (4,400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253–1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau, was an Indian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived during the
List of Kurdish poets and authors (562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The following is a list of Kurdish poets and authors: Balool Evdilsemedê Babek (972–1019) Ali Hariri (1009–1079/80) Mele Perîşan (1356–1431) Mela Huseynê
Rahi Masoom Raza (478 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rahi Masoom Reza (September 1927 – 15 March 1992) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi poet and writer and a Bollywood lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue
Eknath (522 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: [eknath]) (8 november 1533–1599), was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of
Mukundraj (168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mukundraj (IAST: Mukundarāja) was one of the earliest Marathi literary figures poet. Some earlier scholars dated him to the 12th century. Scholars do not
Jagannatha Dasa (Odia poet) (360 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Atibadi Jagannatha Dasa (Odia: ଅତିବଡ଼ି ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ, romanized: Atibaḍi Jagannātha Dāsa; c. 1491–1550) was an Odia poet and litterateur. He was one of the
Gadul Singh Lama (646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gadul Singh Lama, popularly known as Sanu Lama, is an Indian fiction writer, poet and translator of Nepali literature.[citation needed] An engineer by
Gulzar (3,147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known professionally as Gulzar or Gulzar Saab , is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and
Muhammad Iqbal (9,836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال; 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, scholar and politician, whose poetry
Armando Valladares (1,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Armando Valladares Perez (born May 30, 1937) is a Cuban-American poet, diplomat and former political prisoner for his involvement in the Cuban dissident
Changdev Maharaj (997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Changdev Maharaj (also commonly referenced in ancient texts as Changa Deva, Changadeva, or simply Changa) was a mystical yogi turned saint who is believed
Geoffrey Keating (653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Geoffrey Keating (Irish: Seathrún Céitinn; c. 1569 – c. 1644) was a 17th-century Irish historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried
Yuyutsu Sharma (1,256 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma (Nepali: युयुत्सु शर्मा; born January 5, 1960) is a Nepalese-Indian poet and journalist. He was born at Nakodar, Punjab and moved
Hassan Ghaznavi (161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ashrafuddin Abu Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad Husayni Ghaznavi (Persian: اشرف‌الدین ابو محمد حسن بن محمد حسینی غزنوی) known as Ashraf (اشرف) was a 12th-century
Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (Punjabi: غُلام مُصطفا تبسّم, Urdu: غُلام مُصطفیٰ تبسّم), (4 August 1899 – 7 Feb 1978) was a 20th-century poet. His pen name was
Ram Prasad Bismil (2,908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ram Prasad Bismil (pronunciation (help·info) Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and
Unsuri (355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi (Persian: ابوالقاسم حسن عنصری بلخی; died 1039/1040) was a 10–11th century Persian poet. ‘Unṣurī is said to have been born
Agam Singh Giri (73 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Agam Singh Giri (Nepali: अगमसिँह गिरी, 27 December 1927 – 31 January 1971) was an Indian Nepali poet and lyricist from Darjeeling, India. "Agam Singh Giri
Rabia Balkhi (1,056 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rabia Balkhi, also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari) was a 10th-century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic. She is the first known
Ferdowsi (2,540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (2,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto (help·info) (Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত); (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright
Attar of Nishapur (3,105 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; Persian: ابوحامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فریدالدین) and ʿAṭṭār
Jayanta Mahapatra (1,485 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jayanta Mahapatra (born 22 October 1928) is an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He is
Sanai (1,194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi (Persian: حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود ‌بن آدم سنایی غزنوی), more commonly known as Sanai, was a poet from Ghazni
Abdul Ali Mustaghni (73 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abdul Ali Mustaghni (1875-1933) was an Afghan poet. He is one of the most influential poets in modern Persian literature. He was named as the "founder
Abu Ahmad Monajjem (211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Ahmad Yahya ibn Ali ibn Yahya ibn Abi Mansur Aban al-Monajjem (Arabic: ابواحمد یحیی ابن علی ابن یحیی ابن ابی منصور آبان المنجم) (b. 241/855-56, died
Sahir Ludhianvi (2,733 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abdul Hayee (8 March 1921 – 25 October 1980), popularly known by his pen name (takhallus) Sahir Ludhianvi, was an Indian poet and film song lyricist who
Syed Abdul Malik (604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Syed Abdul Malik (1919–2000) was an Indian writer of Assamese literature, from the village of Nahoroni in Golaghat. He was the president of Asam Sahitya
Abu-al-Faraj Runi (93 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abul Faraj Runi (Persian: ابوالفرج رونی), born in Lahore, was an 11th-century Persian court poet who wrote Mathnawi. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan
Durga Lal Shrestha (476 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Durga Lal Shrestha (born July 1935) is a Nepalese poet of Nepal Bhasa and Nepali. He was conferred with the title of Janakavi (lit. people's poet) by Nepal
Ahli Shirazi (327 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahli Shirazi (Persian: اهلی شیرازی ), full name Muhammad ibn Yusuf Ahli Shirazi, was a Persian poet who lived in Shiraz, Iran from 858 to 942H (circa 1454-1535)
Kalim Kashani (319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kalim Kashani (1581/1585-1651) (Persian: کلیم کاشانی) was one of the leading Persian poets of the 17th century. He was born in Hamadan, but soon moved
Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (817 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muḥammad Hāshim Thattvī (1692 – 1761; Sindhi: مخدوم محمد هاشم ٺٺوي, Arabic: المخدوم محمد هاشم التتوي) was an Islamic scholar, author, philanthropist, and
Tahir Efendi Jakova (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tahir Efendi Jakova (1770–1850 or 1835), also known as Tahir Efendi Boshnjaku or The Great Efendi (Albanian: Efendiu i Madh), was an Albanian religious
Naim Frashëri (2,711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Naim bey Frashëri, more commonly Naim Frashëri (/ˈnaɪm frɑːʃərɪ/; pronounced [naˈim fɾaˈʃəˈɾi]; 25 May 1846 – 20 October 1900), was an Albanian historian
Am'aq (114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shihabuddin Am'aq (Persian: عمعق) was a 12th-century Persian (Tajik) poet. Originating from Bukhara, he was an imposing poet that carried the title amir
Naw'i Khabushani (162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mohammad Reza Khabushani also known as Naw'i Khabushani (1563–1610) was a Persian Poet of 16th and early 17th centuries. He was born in Khabushan, a city
Modern Hebrew poetry (521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Modern Hebrew poetry is poetry written in the Hebrew language. It was pioneered by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, and it was developed by the Haskalah movements
Mahmoud Shabestari (505 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mahmoud Shabestari or Mahmūd Shabestarī (Persian: محمود شبستری‎; 1288–1340) is one of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century. Shabistari
Asjadi (274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Nazar ʿAbdul ʿAziz bin Mansur ʿAsjadi (Persian: ابونظر عبدالعزیز بن منصور عسجدی) was a 10th-11th century royal Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire
Pir Sadardin (311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pir Sadar al-Din (Sadardin) or Pir Sadruddin was a fourteenth-century Nizari Ismaili da'i and is regarded as the founder of the Khoja Nizari Ismaili community
Hasrat Jaipuri (735 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hasrat Jaipuri, born Iqbal Hussain (15 April 1922 – 17 September 1999) was an Indian poet, who wrote in the Hindi and Urdu languages. He was also a renowned
Surdas (1,082 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Surdas (IAST: Sūr, Devanagari: सूर) was a 16th-century blind Hindu devotional poet and singer, who was known for his works written in praise of Krishna
Kamal al-Din Isfahani (141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kamal al-Din Isfahani (Persian: کمال الدین اسماعیل; 1172 – 1237) was a Persian writer of qasidas and other forms of poetry, who lived from 1172–1237. He
Afdal al-Din Kashani (937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Afzal ad-Din Maragi Kashani (Persian: افضل‌الدین مَرَقی کاشانی) also known as Baba Afzal (Persian: بابا افضل‌) was a Persian poet and philosopher. Several
Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Raghuvir Sharan Mitra was an Indian poet, novelist and essayist of Hindi literature. Born in 1919, he is the author of poem anthologies such as Jeevan
Asjadi (274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Nazar ʿAbdul ʿAziz bin Mansur ʿAsjadi (Persian: ابونظر عبدالعزیز بن منصور عسجدی) was a 10th-11th century royal Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire
Masud Sa'd Salman (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān (Persian: مسعود سعد سلمان) was an 11th-century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet. He lived
Munir Niazi (518 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Munir Ahmed Niazi (Punjabi, Urdu: منیر نیازی; 9 April 1923– 26 December 2006), was a Pakistani poet of Punjabi and Urdu language. He also wrote for newspapers
Rudaki (2,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rudaki (also spelled Rodaki; Persian: رودکی; c. 858 – 940/41) was a poet, singer and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian
Hasrat Jaipuri (735 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hasrat Jaipuri, born Iqbal Hussain (15 April 1922 – 17 September 1999) was an Indian poet, who wrote in the Hindi and Urdu languages. He was also a renowned
Pir Sadardin (311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pir Sadar al-Din (Sadardin) or Pir Sadruddin was a fourteenth-century Nizari Ismaili da'i and is regarded as the founder of the Khoja Nizari Ismaili community
Thomas Kinsella (1,750 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Thomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. Born outside Dublin, Kinsella attended University
Awhadi Maraghai (709 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Awhadi Maraghei (also spelled Auhadi; Persian: اوحدی مراغه‌ای) (1274/75–1338) was a Persian Sufi poet primarily based in Azerbaijan during the rule of
Uthman Mukhtari (270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abū ‘Umar ‘Uthmān b. ‘Umar Mukhtārī Ghaznavī (born c. 467/1074-75, died 513×15/1118×21) was a Persian poet of the Ghaznavids, an empire originating from
Harivansh Rai Bachchan (722 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Harivansh Rai Bachchan (né Srivastava; 27 November 1907 – 18 January 2003) was an Indian poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic
Irshad Kamil (1,273 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Irshad Kamil (born 5 September 1971) is an Indian poet and lyricist. His songs appear in Bollywood films including Jab We Met, Chameli, Love Aaj Kal, Rockstar
Hatefi (536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abd-Allah Hatefi, commonly known as Hatefi (also spelled Hatifi; Persian: هاتفی; 1454 – 1521) was a Persian poet and nephew of the distinguished poet Jami
Madan Mohan Mishra (236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Madan Mohan Mishra (Nepali: मदनमोहन मिश्र) (12 December 1931 – 4 July 2013) was a Nepalese author and humorist known for his epic poetry, satirical writings
Jarya (484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jarya, also called jariyah and jawaris, was a term for a certain type of slave girl in the medieval Islamic world. They were "slaves for pleasure" (muṭʿa
Dharmendra Bikram Nembang (149 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dharmendra Bikram Nembang(Nepali:धर्मेन्द्र बिक्रम नेम्वाङ) is a Nepalese poet. His is the pioneer of Multicolourism(सामान्य बहुरँगवाद). His fellow poets
Lochlann Óg Ó Dálaigh (129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Lochlann Óg Ó Dálaigh, early modern Irish poet, fl. ca. 1610. A native of Munster and a member of the Ó Dálaigh clan of poets, he wrote poetry lamenting
Mamang Dai (618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mamang Dai is an Indian poet, novelist and journalist based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. She received Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017 for her novel The
Anas Haqqani (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Anas Haqqani (Pashto: انس حقانی [aˈnas haqɑˈni]; born c. 1994) is a leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban movement and was also a member
Anwar Masood (949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ke Chand Goshay (Research work) List of Pakistani poets List of Urdu language poets "Anwar Masood: A passion for teaching". Dawn. 6 December 2014. Retrieved
Madhavdev (1,151 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Madhavdev (1489–1596) (Pron: ˈʃrɪ ˈʃrɪ ˈmɑ:dəbˌdeɪv) is an important preceptor of the Ekasarana Dharma known for his loyalty to his guru, Srimanta Sankardev
Sitaram Agrahari (275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sitaram Agrahari (born c.1957) is a Nepalese journalist, poet and editor-in-chief of Gorkhapatra, Nepal's oldest daily newspaper. He received Rajarshi
Máire Mhac an tSaoi (1,341 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Máire Mhac an tSaoi (4 April 1922 – 16 October 2021) was an Irish civil service diplomat, writer of Modernist poetry in the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Munster
Rabindranath Tagore (10,756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr/ (listen); pronounced [rɔˈbindɾɔnatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, writer
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bruadair (1625 – January 1698) was one of the most significant Irish language poets of the 17th century. He lived through a momentous time in Irish history
Mu'izzi (573 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Amīr ash-Shu‘arā’ Abū Abdullāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik Mu‘izzī (Persian: امیرمعزی, romanized as Mu'ezzi) (born Nishapur 1048/9) was a poet who ranks
Ganesh Lal Shrestha (400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ganesh Lal Shrestha (Nepali: गणेशलाल श्रेष्ठ) (July 1911 – 24 July 1985) was a Nepalese poet, musician and social worker. He wrote in Nepali, Nepal Bhasa
Babak NikTalab (948 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Babak NikTalab (Persian: بابک نیک‌طلب; born 30 June 1967) is an Iranian poet and writer. He won the Golden Cypress for the 5th edition of the Fajr International
Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail (120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail (fl. c. 1500–1550) was a poet from County Donegal who wrote in Irish. Eoghan Carrach was a member of the Ó Siadhail family of
Hazin Lahiji (544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hazin Lahiji (Persian: حزین لاهیجی; 8 January 1692 – 15 October 1766), was an Iranian historian, theologian and philosopher. Hazin belonged to a family
Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird (138 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird, fl. 1670, was an Irish poet. A son of Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird, Diarmaid was a member of the Clann Mac an Bhaird and one of the
Sulochana Manandhar (524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sulochana Manandhar Dhital (Nepali: सुलोचना मानन्धर धिताल) (born 12 March 1955), professionally known as Sulochana, is a Nepali poet, writer, columnist
R. V. Pandit (317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Raghunath Vishnu Pandit (1916 or 1917-1990) was a Goan poet. He is best known and most celebrated for his vast poetic production in Konkani. Pandit also
Proinsias Ó Doibhlin (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, O.F.M. (1660–1724) was an Irish Franciscan friar, poet and scribe, who died c. 1724. Possibly from Muinterevlin (now Ardboe), Ó Doibhlin
Sultan Bahu (945 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sultan Bahu (Punjabi: سُلطان باہُو (Shahmukhi), ਸੁਲਤਾਨ ਬਾਹੂ (Gurmukhi); also spelled Bahoo; 17 January 1630 – 1 March 1691), was a 17th-century Punjabi
Hith Harivansh Mahaprabhu (1,102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shri Hit Harivansh Chandra Mahaprabhu (another spelling, Hita Harivaṃśa, 1473 CE–1552 CE) is a Braj-language bhakti poet-sant and the founder of Radha
Ghalib (5,510 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and authors Persian language in the Indian subcontinent List of Urdu language poets Urdu poetry Mirza Ghalib poetry Pavan K. Varma (1989). Ghalib, The Man
Ali Sardar Jafri (992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Indian writer of Urdu language. He was also a poet, critic and film lyricist. Ali Sardar Jafri
Donnchadh Mac an Caoilfhiaclaigh (135 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Donnchadh Mac an Caoilfhiaclaigh was a 17th-century Irish poet. The poem Do frith, monuar an uain si ar Éirinn is attributed to him. Do frith links the
Nicola Chetta (106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nicola Chetta, (Arbërisht: Nikollë Keta; 12 July 1741 – 15 December 1803) was an Arbëresh writer and priest. He was born in Contessa Entellina, Sicily
Kaka Hathrasi (457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kaka Hathrasi (18 September 1906 – 18 September 1995) was a Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India. Hathrasi was born as Prabhu Lal Garg. He wrote under
Layeq Sherali (257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Layeq Sherali (1941–2000, in Tajiki/Persian: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq or Loiq) was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and
Fear Flaith Ó Gnímh (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fear Flaith Ó Gnímh (c. 1540 – c. 1630) was an early modern Irish poet. Little is known for certain of Ó Gnímh. He was born in Ulster, and his family located
Asad Gulzoda (288 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Asad Gulov, also known as Asad Gulzodai Bukhoroyi or Asad Gulzoda (Tajik: Асад Гулзодаи Бухороӣ; 5 January 1935 – 29 May 2023) was a Tajik poet, linguist
Sachal Sarmast (331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sachal Sarmast or Sacho Sarmast (Sindhi: سچو سرمست‎ (1739–1827), born Abdul Wahab Farooqi (Sindhi: عبدالوهاب فاروقي‎) was a prominent and a legendary Sindhi
Shahid Balkhi (918 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shahid Balkhi (or Shuhayd; Persian: شهید بلخی, romanized: Shahīd-e Balkhī; died 927) was a scribe, philosopher and poet active in the Chaghaniyan and Samanid
Khatir Ghaznavi (991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mohammad Ibrahim Baig (5 November 1925 – 7 July 2008), known by his pen name Khatir Ghaznavi; romanized: K̲h̲āt̤ir G̲h̲aznavī, was a Pakistani multilingual
Layeq Sherali (257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Layeq Sherali (1941–2000, in Tajiki/Persian: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq or Loiq) was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and
Nokë Sinishtaj (682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ndue Sinishtaj (August 24, 1944) is an Albanian poet, and former Catholic priest from Montenegro known for writing poems in Gheg Albanian. Sinishtaj was
Cormac Mac Con Midhe (176 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cormac Mac Con Midhe, a.k.a. Cormac mac Cearbhaill Mac Con Midhe (died 1627) was an early Modern Irish poet. Manuscript H.5.6, held at Trinity College
Farzaneh (Tajik poet) (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Inoyat Hojieva (Tajik: Иноят Ҳоҷиева), mostly known as Farzona (Tajik: Фарзона) is a Tajik poet and writer. She won a lifetime achievement award. She was
Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte (66 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. 16th century. Native of Munster, and a member of the Ó an Cháintighe bardic family. His known poems include the
Shambhu Prasad Dhungel (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shambhu Prasad Dhungel (Nepali: शम्भुप्रसाद ढुङ्गेल; born 1885 – 1929) was a Nepali author, playwright, and poet. Shambhu Prasad Dhungel was born in 1885
Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin (116 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin (IPA: [ˈmˠa(h)ɣəwənʲ oː ˈhɪfʲəɾˠnˠaːnʲ]; fl. 1585), was an early modern Irish poet. Ó hIfearnáin was living in the Shronell district
Sumitranandan Pant (664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sumitranandan Pant (20 May 1900 – 28 December 1977) was an Indian poet. He was one of the most celebrated 20th century poets of the Hindi language and
Saadi Shirazi (4,209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Saadi Shīrāzī (Persian: ابومحمّد مصلح‌الدین بن عبدالله شیرازی), better known by his pen name Saadi (/ˈsɑːdi/; Persian: سعدی, romanized: Saʿdī, IPA: [sæʔˈdiː])
Mahd al-Aadiyya (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mahd al-Aadiyya (Arabic: مَهد العادية) was supposedly an Arab poet from around 4000 BCE. She is unlikely to have existed: Rather she is a chronicle character
Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (54 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (1550–1600) was an Irish poet. Reputedly from Duniry, he was of the Mac Aodhagáin clan of poets. In his lifetime, his family
Et'hem bey Mollaj (291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Haxhi Et'hem Bey also known as Haxhi Et'hem bey Mollaj (1783–1846) was an Ottoman Albanian administrator, nobleman and bejtexhi. Et'hem Bey was the son
Rainer Maria Rilke (5,565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was
Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1,122 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ʿAlī (Bengali: শাহ মোহাম্মদ ইবরাহীম আলী; 1872 – 11 September 1931) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, poet and activist of the Khilafat
Daud Kamal (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the English language. His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot. Born in Abbottabad in 1935
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Irish pronunciation: [ˈn̪ˠuəlˠə n̠ʲiː ˈɣoːnˠəl̠ʲ]; born 1952) is a leading Irish poet. Born in Lancashire, England, of Irish parents
Karim agha Shakikhanov (333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Karim agha Shakikhanov (Azerbaijani: Kərim ağa Şəkixanov, pen-name Fateh) was an Azerbaijani poet and historian. He was born in 1788 to Fatali Khan and
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (1,200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr or Abusa'id Abolkhayr (Persian: ابوسعید ابوالخیر) (December 7, 967 - January 12, 1049), also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed
Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh (214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh (IPA: [ˈmˠɪɾʲçaɾˠt̪ˠəx oː ˈkəuhiː]; fl. 1586) was an Irish poet, a member of the Ó Cobhthaigh clan of poets from County Westmeath
Sarojini Naidu (2,651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet. She was the former Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Philipp Nicolai (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Philipp Nicolai (10 August 1556 – 26 October 1608) was a German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer. He is most widely recognized as a hymnodist. Philipp
Ylva Eggehorn (117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ylva Elisabet Eggehorn (born 6 March 1950) is a Swedish poet, writer, and hymnwriter. She is said to be among Sweden's most famous contemporary Christian
Abu Tahir Khosrovani (83 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Tahir Khosrovani (Persian: ابو طاهر خسروانی) was a 10th-century Persian who lived in the Samanid Empire. He was a native of Khorasan, and lived during
Daqiqi (831 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Mansur Daqiqi (Persian: ابومنصور دقیقی), better simply known as Daqiqi (دقیقی), was one of the most prominent Persian poets of the Samanid era. He
Mohammad Mokhtari (writer) (634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Mohammad Mokhtari (Persian: محمد مختاری) (April 21, 1942 – December 3, 1998) was an Iranian writer, poet and left-wing activist. He was an active member
Ahlam al-Nasr (368 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahlam al-Nasr (Arabic: أحلام النصر) is a Syrian Arabic poet, and is known as "the Poetess of the Islamic State". Her first book of poetry, The Blaze of
Nasibi Tahir Babai (510 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nasibi Tahir Babai (died 1835), born Tahir Skënderasi, was an Albanian Bektashi wali and bejtexhi. Tahir Babai took the nickname Nasibi (the fortunate
Kristian Osvald Viderø (215 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kristian Osvald Viderø (27 May 1906, in Skálavík – 8 April 1991, in Copenhagen) was a Faroese clergyman, poet and Bible translator. In 1985 he won the
Sultan Walad (1,977 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad (Persian: بها الدین محمد ولد), more popularly known as Sultan Walad (Persian: سلطان ولد) was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din
Imran Shah (writer) (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Imran Shah (born 23 November 1933), also known as Nawab Imran Shah is an Indian Assamese language writer, poet, novelist, and scholar. He also writes under
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (831 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (2 July 1901 – 15 May 1991) was a noted Odia poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist, and essayist. He is famous for his magnum
Ahdi of Baghdad (352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahdi of Baghdad (d.1593), also referred in Turkish as Bağdadlı Ahdi Ahmed Çelebi, was an Ottoman and Safavid era poet and bibliographer of the 16th century
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (342 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him
Seán Ó Ríordáin (1,601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
themes to Irish poetry, and is widely regarded as one of the best Irish language poets of the 20th century. Ó Ríordáin was the eldest of three children born
Jasobanta Dasa (269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jasobanta Dasa (Odia: ଯଶୋବନ୍ତ ଦାସ, romanized: Jasobanta Dāsa; born c. 1487) was an Odia poet, litterateur and mystic. He was one of the five great poets
Abu-Shakur Balkhi (116 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Shakur Balkhi (Persian: ابوشکور بلخی; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important Persian poets of the Samanid period. He was a contemporary
Qiyan (1,337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Qiyān (Arabic: قِيان, Arabic: [qi'jæːn]; singular qayna, Arabic: قَينة, Arabic: ['qɑjnæh]) were a social class of women, trained as entertainers, which
Verma Malik (493 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Verma Malik (13 April 1925 – 15 March 2009) was a Bollywood film songs lyricist. He was an active freedom fighter during the British Raj. He wrote many
Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte (166 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. c. 1601. A member of the Ó an Cháintighe bardic family, and a relative of Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte, Tadhg Olltach
Hayim Nahman Bialik (3,154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
felt deeply in all modern Hebrew literature. The generation of Hebrew language poets who followed in Bialik's footsteps, including Jacob Steinberg and Jacob
Bijan Jalali (62 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bijan Jalali (Persian: بیژن جلالی; 1927 – January 2000) was a modern Persian poet. Jalali was born in Tehran, Iran. His works include: The Color of Water
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (Persian: احمدرضا احمدی; born 1940) is an Iranian poet and screenwriter. The history of modern Persian poetry calls him the founder of
Mohammad Taher Vahid Qazvini (751 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mirza Mohammad Taher Vahid Qazvini (Persian: محمد طاهر وحید قزوینی; died 1700), was an Iranian bureaucrat, poet, and historian, who served as the grand
Jean Arp (1,939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was
Ahdi of Baghdad (352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahdi of Baghdad (d.1593), also referred in Turkish as Bağdadlı Ahdi Ahmed Çelebi, was an Ottoman and Safavid era poet and bibliographer of the 16th century
Hayim Nahman Bialik (3,154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
felt deeply in all modern Hebrew literature. The generation of Hebrew language poets who followed in Bialik's footsteps, including Jacob Steinberg and Jacob
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (Persian: احمدرضا احمدی; born 1940) is an Iranian poet and screenwriter. The history of modern Persian poetry calls him the founder of
Bijan Jalali (62 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bijan Jalali (Persian: بیژن جلالی; 1927 – January 2000) was a modern Persian poet. Jalali was born in Tehran, Iran. His works include: The Color of Water
Girija Prasad Joshi (415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Girija Prasad Joshi (Nepali: गिरिजाप्रसाद जोशी; 1939–1987) was a versatile Nepalese poet who set a new trend in Nepal Bhasa literature. His poems, epics
Samarth Ramdas (2,213 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Samarth Ramdas (c. 1608 – c. 1681), also known as Sant Ramdas or Ramdas Swami, was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher, poet, writer and spiritual master
Shāriyah (554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shāriyah (Arabic: شارِية, born c. 815 in al-Basra; died c. 870 C.E.) was an ‘Abbasid qayna (enslaved singing-girl), who enjoyed a prominent place in the
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (1,272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim (17 December 1556 – 1 October 1627), popularly known as simply Rahim and titled Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who lived in
Kaygusuz Abdal (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kaygusuz Abdal (1341–1444) was a Turkish folk poet of the 14th century. In the 14th century Alaiye was the capital of the small Alaiye beylik (principality)
Afira bint 'Abbad (79 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Afira bint 'Abbad (Arabic: عَفِيرة بنت عبَّاد Ashshamus) was an Arab poet from around the 3rd century CE. Moris Farhi (ed) Classical Poems by Arab Women
Yusuf Husain (328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Yusuf Husain Khan (1902–1979), born in Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India, was a historian, scholar, educationist, critic and author. He mastered
T. P. Rajeevan (409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Thachom Poyil Rajeevan (28 June 1959 – 2 November 2022) was an Indian novelist and poet originally from Palery who wrote in Malayalam and English languages
Jean Arp (1,939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was
Firaq Gorakhpuri (572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator
Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani (268 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Zu'l Fiqar Shirvani (died c. 1291) was a Persian poet of the Ilkhanid-era. His divan consists of 9,000 verses. Mohammad Dabirsiaqi / Encyclopædia Iranica
Saleem Kausar (460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ہے' جنہیں راستے میں خبر ہوئی ' List of Pakistani poets List of Urdu language poets Ghazals of Saleem Kausar Rekhta.org website, Retrieved 15 November 2022
Shivmangal Singh Suman (401 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shivmangal Singh "Suman" (5 August 1915 – 27 November 2002) was an Indian poet and academician who wrote in Hindi. Shivmangal Singh 'Suman' was born on
Nanda Hangkhim (140 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nanda Hangkhim (Nepali: नन्द हाङ्खिम) is a writer in the Nepali language. He is from Darjeeling district, India. He is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi
Kul Nesîmî (106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kul Nesîmî, or simply Nesîmî, real name Ali was an Ottoman Alevi-Bektashi poet, who lived in the 17th century in Anatolia. Very little is known about this
Ananta Dasa (220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sisu Ananta Dasa (also spelled Ananta Dasa; Odia: ଶିଶୁ ଅନନ୍ତ ଦାସ, romanized: Sisu Ananta Dāsa; born c. 1475) was an Odia poet, litterateur and mystic.
Georg Kaiser (1,046 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (25 November 1878 – 4 June 1945) was a German dramatist. Kaiser was born in Magdeburg. He was highly
Bhupal Rai (397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bhupal Rai (Nepali: भूपाल राई) is a poet, lyricist, writer and editor. he is currently chancellor of Nepal Academy He has voiced for the rights of the
Alfred Kastler (572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Alfred Kastler (French: [kastlɛʁ]; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Kastler was born in Guebwiller (Alsace
Annada Shankar Ray (650 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Annada Shankar Ray (15 March 1904 – 28 October 2002) was an Indian poet and essayist in Bengali. He also wrote some Odia poetry. He wrote several Bengali
Balraj Komal (237 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Balraj Komal (1928-2013) was an Indian poet and writer of Urdu literature. The Government of India honored Komal in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian
Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat (426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat (Persian: رضاقلی‌خان هدایت; 8 June 1800 – 29 June 1871) was a Persian literary historian, administrator, and poet in 19th-century
Zafar Iqbal (poet) (385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Zafar Iqbal (Urdu: ظفر اقبال‎, romanized: Ẓafar Iqbāl; born 27 September 1933) is an Urdu poet based in Okara, Punjab, Pakistan in Arain family. Zafar
Simin Behbahani (943 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (née Siminbar Khalili; Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; 20 July 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian
Adib Sabir (146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shihabuddin Sharaful-udaba Sabir (Persian: شهاب‌الدین شرف‌الادبا صابر) known as Adib Sabir (ادیب صابر), was a 12th-century Persian poet. Originating from
Hamzah Fansuri (919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hamzah Fansuri (Jawi: حمزه فنسوري ; also spelled Hamzah Pansuri, d. c. 1590 ?) was a 16th-century Sumatran Sufi writer, and the first writer known to write
Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh (470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh (IPA: [ˈcaɾˠ(ə)wəl̪ˠ oː ˈd̪ˠaːlˠiː]; fl. 1630), sometimes spelt in English as Carroll Oge O'Daly, was a 17th-century Irish language
Sardar Anjum (309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sardar Anjum (1941-2015) was an Indian poet (Shayar and philosopher. He is the author of 25 books, and many audio cassettes/records of his poems. He had
Georg Büchner (860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement
Anvari (697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Anvari (1126–1189), full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud (Persian: اوحدالدین علی ابن محمد انوری) was a Persian
Zehra Nigah (631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pakistan." Shaam Ka Pehla Tara Waraq List of Pakistani poets List of Urdu language poets Fatima Surayya Bajia Anwar Maqsood Zubaida Tariq Profile of Zehra Nigah
Gyandil Das (278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gyandil Das (Nepali: ज्ञानदिल दास; 1821–1883) was a Nepalese poet and social reformer, later known as a "Saint".[citation needed] He opposed existing social
Itzhak Katzenelson (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Itzhak Katzenelson (Hebrew: יצחק קצנלסון, Yiddish: (יצחק קאַצ(ע)נעלסאָן(זון; also transcribed as Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson, Jizchak Katzenelson; Yitzhok Katznelson)
Khwaju Kermani (449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Khwaju Kermani (Persian: خواجوی کرمانی; December 1290 – 1349) was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Iran. He was born in Kerman, Iran on 24 December
Laila bint Lukaiz (431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Laila bint Lukaiz or Layla bint Lukayz (Arabic: لَيْلَى بنت لُكَيْز died 483), otherwise known as "Layla the Chaste" (Arabic: ليلى العفيفة), was a legendary
Komalnath Adhikari (98 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Komalnath Adhikari (Nepali: कोमलनाथ अधिकारी) was a Nepalese writer and poet. Adhikari was born in Duradanda, Lamjung District, Nepal. In 1963, Adhikari
Javed Akhtar (1,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
political activism". Tarkash (1995) Lava (2012) Poetry portal List of Urdu-language poets "Javed Akhtar Awards & Nominations List - Filmibeat". FilmiBeat. Retrieved
Iolo Morganwg (1,775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
such elements of bardic heritage as had genuinely survived among Welsh-language poets. Part of his aim was to assert the Welshness of South Wales, particularly
Sachidananda Routray (408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sachidananda Routray (13 May 1916 – 21 August 2004) was an Indian poet, novelist and short-story writer who wrote in Odia. He received Jnanpith Award,
Johannes Anyuru (560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Johannes Anyuru (born 23 March 1979) is a Swedish poet and author. Anyuru was born in Borås. His father is from Uganda and his mother is Swedish. He debuted
Gopinath Aman (313 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gopinath Aman was an Indian independence activist, journalist and poet of Urdu literature. Born in 1899, He headed the Public Relations Committee of the
Balkrishna Sama (623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Balkrishna Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana or Bala Krishna Sama (Nepali: बालकृष्ण सम; 8 February 1903 – 20 June 1981) was a Nepalese dramatist. For his great
Tukaram (3,710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sant Tukaram Maharaj (Marathi pronunciation: [t̪ukaːɾam]) was a 17th-century Marathi Saint, Hindu sant (saint), popularly known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba
'Orfi Shirazi (137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jamāl-al-Din Moḥammad Sidi (1555–1591) was a Persian poet. He lived from 963 AH-999 AH; c. 1556-1590 CE; known by his pen-name Urfi, or Orfi or Urfi Shirazi
Tukaram (3,710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sant Tukaram Maharaj (Marathi pronunciation: [t̪ukaːɾam]) was a 17th-century Marathi Saint, Hindu sant (saint), popularly known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba
Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill (223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill (fl. early 18th century) was an Irish poet. Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill was from the townland of Derrylasky in the parish of Donaghmore
Peter Huchel (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Peter Huchel (April 3, 1903 – April 30, 1981), born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet and editor. Huchel was born in Lichterfelde (now part of Berlin)
Rabi Thapa (206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rabi Thapa (Nepali: रवि थापा) is a Nepali writer and editor working in English. He is the Editor of La.Lit, the literary magazine from Nepal, and the author
Kedarnath Singh (504 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kedarnath Singh (7 July 1934 – 19 March 2018) was an Indian poet who wrote in Hindi. He was also an eminent critic and essayist. He was awarded the Jnanpith
Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Rutherford Watters) (3 April 1919 – 24 August 1982) was an Irish poet and writer. Eugene Rutherford Watters was born at Dunlo
Aimeric de Peguilhan (184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aimeric or Aimery de Peguilhan, Peguillan, or Pégulhan (c. 1170 – c. 1230) was a troubadour (fl. 1190–1221) born in Peguilhan (near Saint-Gaudens), the
Jagdish Chaturvedi (writer) (186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Jagdish Chaturvedi was an Indian poet of Hindi literature. He was born on 15 August 1929, at Gwalior in the state of Madhya Pradesh and after securing
Narayana Purushothama Mallaya (574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Narayana Purushothama Mallaya is an Indian author, known for his activism for Konkani language and literature. A recipient of Sahitya Academy Award, he
Buddha Sayami (172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Buddha Sayami (Nepali: बुद्ध सायमी; 1944 – 26 December 2016) was a Nepalese poet and Newa politician, born in Kathmandu. He wrote poetry in Nepal Bhasa
Imdad Hussaini (476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
his book Dhoop Kiran in 2016 List of Pakistani writers List of Sindhi language poets Sindhi literature Sindhi poetry Pakistan Pictorial on GoogleBooks website
Sharada Sharma (551 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sharada Sharma (born 1958; Nepali: शारदा शर्मा) is a Nepali writer and poet. Her debut novel, Taap, won the 2012 Padmashree Sahitya Samman award. Sharada
Vahshi Bafqi (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Vahshi Bafqi (Persian: وحشی بافقی, romanized: Vahshi Bāfqi) was a Persian poet of the Safavid era, considered to be one of the greatest of his generation
Ghazi Sial (259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mohammad Ghazi (c. 1933 – 27 November 2019), known by his pen name Ghazi Sial and by an honorific title in Pashto literature as Baba Sandara, was a Pakistani
Dhruba Chandra Gautam (460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dhruba Chandra Gautam (Nepali: ध्रुवचन्द्र गौतम) is a Nepalese novel writer. He has authored over 60 stories and novels, most of which address contemporary
Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya (182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya (Arabic: صفية البغدادية) was a Medieval Arabic poet writing during the 12th Century CE. This late period of the Abbasids has been
Haxhi Ymer Kashari (387 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Haxhi Ymer Kashari known also as Ymer Mustafa Kashari was an Albanian bejtexhi of the 18th century. Haxhi Ymer was born in Tirana in early 18th century
Achim von Arnim (1,047 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831), better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German poet, novelist, and together
Verner von Heidenstam (801 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940) was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a
Makhanlal Chaturvedi (495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi (4 April 1889 – 30 January 1968), also called Pandit ji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist
Fereydoon Moshiri (190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fereydoon Moshiri (Persian: فریدون مشیری; September 21, 1926 – October 24, 2000) was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in
Mirza Ali Khan La'li (112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mirza Ali Khan La'li, also known as Hakim La'li (1845–1907), was a writer and physician who wrote satirical Azerbaijani poetry "in the traditional style"
Sulejman Naibi (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sulejman Naibi (Ramazani) was an Albanian early period poet of the bejtexhinj era. Not much is known from his life. He was a contemporary and arguably
Riddhi Bahadur Malla (218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Subba Riddhi Bahadur Malla (Nepali: ऋद्धिबहादुर मल्ल; 1898–1968) was a Nepali writer. Malla was born on 8 December 1898 in Benaras, British India. His
Rajendra Shah (author) (645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (28 January 1913 – 2 January 2010) was a lyrical poet who wrote in Gujarati. Born in Kapadvanj, he authored more than 20 collections
Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani (296 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mahmoud Moshref Azad Tehrani (Persian: محمود مشرف آزاد تهرانی; December 9, 1934 in Tehran – January 19, 2006 in Tehran) was a contemporary Persian poet
Piaras Feiritéar (762 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Piaras Feiritéar (Irish pronunciation: [ˈpʲiəɾˠəsˠ fʲɛɾʲəˈtʲeːɾˠ]; 1600? – 1653), or Pierce Ferriter, was an Irish clan Chief, and poet. Although best
Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni (291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni (Arabic: يونس الكاتب المغنّي) was a well-known musician and writer on music in the first half of the 2nd/8th century. He was
Manouchehr Atashi (282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Manouchehr Atashi (Persian: منوچهر آتشی) (September 25, 1931 – November 20, 2005) was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. He was born in 1931 in Dashtestan
Tribhuvandas Luhar (682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tribhuvandas Purushottamdas Luhar, better known by his pen name Sundaram, (22 March 1908 – 13 January 1991), was a Gujarati poet and author from India
Wilhelm Hauff (1,029 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a Württembergian poet and novelist. Hauff was born in Stuttgart, the son of August Friedrich Hauff
Balarama Dasa (608 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Balarama Dasa (alternatively spelled Balaram Das; Odia: ବଳରାମ ଦାସ, romanized: Baḷarāma Dāsa; c. 1474-1522) was an Odia poet and litterateur. He was one
Kunwar Narayan (952 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kunwar Narayan (19 September 1927 – 15 November 2017) was a poet in Indian literature in Hindi. He read and traveled widely and wrote for six decades.
Vinda Karandikar (545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (23 August 1918 – 14 March 2010), better known as Vindā, was an Indian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator in the Marathi-language
Aban al-Lahiqi (402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aban b. 'Abd al-Hamid al-Lahiqi (al-Raqashi) (Persian: ابان لاحقی) of Basra (c. 750–815 or 816) was a Persian court poet of the Barmakids in Baghdad. He
Artur Lundkvist (997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nils Artur Lundkvist (3 March 1906 – 11 December 1991) was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968
Hari Bhakta Katuwal (462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hari Bhakta Katuwal (Nepali: हरिभक्त कटुवाल) was an Indian-Nepali poet, writer and songwriter. Hari Bhakta Katuwal was born on 2 July 1935 in Dibrugarh
Dilawar Figar (511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dilawar Figar, (8 July 1929 – 25 January 1998) was a Pakistani humorist and poet. He was known as Shehansha-e-Zarafat (King of humor) and Akbar-e-Sani
Anwar Jalalpuri (171 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Anwar Jalalpuri (6 July 1947 – 2 January 2018) was an Indian Urdu poet from Jalalpur, Uttar Pradesh, known for translating the Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit
Muhammad ibn Wasif (293 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muḥammad ibn Waṣīf (Persian: محمد بن وصیف; died 909 CE) was an Iranian poet and secretary who flourished in the 9th century in the service of the Saffarid
Hatef Esfahani (501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Seyyed Ahmad Hatef Esfahani (Persian: سید احمد هاتف اصفهانی; also Romanized as Hatif Isfahani and Hātif Isfahāni) was a famous Iranian poet of the 18th
Nikolaus Lenau (1,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet. He
Saadi Youssef (562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Saadi Youssef (Arabic: سعدي يوسف) (1934 – 13 June 2021) was an Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher, and political activist. He published thirty volumes
Dinakrushna Dasa (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dinakrushna Dasa (1650–1710) was an Odia poet, belonging to the Vaishnava tradition of Bhakti movement. He is known for his Odia poem titled "Rasakallola"
Gunnar Ekelöf (1,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf (15 September 1907, in Stockholm – 16 March 1968, in Sigtuna) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy
Ahmad al-Tifashi (453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahmad al-Tifashi whose full name is Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Yusuf al-Ḳaysi al-Tifachi (Arabic: أحمد بن يوسف القيسي التيفاشي), born in Tifash
Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani (664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ayn-al-Qużāt Hamadānī, also spelled Ain-al Quzat Hamedani or ʿAyn-al Qudat Hamadhani (1098–1131) (Persian: عین‌ القضات همدانی), full name: Abu’l-maʿālī
Ali-Shir Nava'i (4,681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, Persian: نظام‌الدین
Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni (291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni (Arabic: يونس الكاتب المغنّي) was a well-known musician and writer on music in the first half of the 2nd/8th century. He was
Vikram Seth (1,577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Vikram Seth CBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such
Kisai Marvazi (141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kisa'i Marvazi (Persian: کسایی مروزی‎; 953–1002) was a 10th-century Persian poet. His full name was probably Abu’l-Hasan (or Abu Ishaq) Majd al-Din ʿAli
Bina Theeng Tamang (411 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bina Maya Theeng Lama (Nepali: बिना माया थिङ लामा) (born 26 August 1980), professionally known as Bina Theeng Tamang, is a Nepalese educator, writer, and
Surjit Patar (620 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Surjit Patar (born Surjit Hunjan) is a Punjabi language writer and poet of Punjab, India. His poems enjoy immense popularity with the general public and
Sharad Joshi (513 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sharad Joshi was an Indian poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990
Hari Bhakta Katuwal (462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hari Bhakta Katuwal (Nepali: हरिभक्त कटुवाल) was an Indian-Nepali poet, writer and songwriter. Hari Bhakta Katuwal was born on 2 July 1935 in Dibrugarh
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (Persian: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی; Azerbaijani: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی; January 2, 1906 – September 18, 1988)
Abdullah Ansari (978 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1088) (Persian: خواجه عبدالله انصاری) also known as Pir-i Herat (پیر هرات) "Sage
Gangadhar Meher (742 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Swabhaba kabi Gangadhar Meher (Odia: ସ୍ୱଭାବକବି ଗଙ୍ଗାଧର ମେହେର) was a renowned Odia poet of the 19th century. Though poor in wealth and education, he remained
Inan bint Abdallah (774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
ʽInān bint ʽAbdallāh (Arabic: عنان بنت عبد الله, died 841) was a prominent poet of the Abbasid period, even characterised by the tenth-century historian
Mirabai (3,179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Meera, better known as Mirabai and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti
Asir-e Esfahani (741 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mirza Jalal Mohammad (c. 1620-48), who is best known as Asir-e Esfahani (Asir) and Shahrestani, was a Persian poet in 17th-century Safavid Iran. He was
Khalil Dhantejvi (429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Khalil Ismail Makrani (12 December 1935 – 4 April 2021), popularly known by his pen-name, Khalil Dhantejvi was a poet and novelist from Gujarat, India
Shah Nimatullah Wali (849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali, (Persian: شاه نعمت‌الله ولی Shāh Ne'matullāh-i Valī), also spelled as Ne'matollah and Ni'matallah was the spiritual
Ali Miya (600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ali Miya (Nepali: अलि मियाँ; 26 February 1919 – 4 August 2006) was a Nepalese folk poet. He was popularly known as "Lok Kavi". Miya was born on 26 February
Mahmood Shaam (748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
List of Pakistani journalists List of Pakistani poets List of Urdu language poets List of Pakistani writers List of Urdu language writers "Profile – Mahmood
Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap (418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tulsiram Sharma 'Kashyap' (11 February 1939 – 8 February 1998) was an Indian writer and politician in the Nepali language from Sikkim, India. He is a recipient
Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo (896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo (Persian: زردشت بهرام پژدو), was a significant Persian Zoroastrian poet and the son of Bahram-e-Pazhdo. He was born in the early
Bahram-e Pazhdo (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bahram-e Pazhdo (Persian: بهرام پژدو, meaning "Bahram (son) of Pazhdo") was a Zoroastrian and Persian poet of the 13th century. Bahram-e Pazhdo's only
Aftab Iqbal Shamim (268 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Aftab Iqbal Shamim (Urdu: آفتاب اقبال شمیم ; born 16 February 1933 in Jhelum, Pakistan) is an Urdu language poet and an educator from Pakistan. Aftab Iqbal
Nilmani Phookan Jr (656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nilmani Phookan (10 September 1933 – 19 January 2023) was an Indian poet in Assamese language and an academic. His work, replete with symbolism, is inspired
Salik Lucknawi (248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Salik Lucknawi (16 December 1913 – 4 January 2013) was the nom de plume of Shaukat Riaz Kapoor, an Indian Urdu poet and journalist. He was a recipient
Nara Dev Pandey (444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nara Dev Pandey (1872 – 1944) was a Nepalese poet, writer and publisher. He served as the first talukdar (manager) of Gorkhapatra, one of the earliest
Shakti Ballav Aryal (231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shakti Ballav Aryal (Nepali: शक्तिबल्लभ अर्याल; also known as Shakti Ballav Arjyal or Shakti Ballabh Aryal) was a Nepalese writer, translator, and a Hindu
Ludovico Ariosto (1,859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ludovico Ariosto (Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto, - ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the
Qaani (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mirza Habibollah Shirazi, known as Qaani (Persian: قاآنی‎, 20 October 1808 – 4 May 1854) was one of the most famous poets of the Qajar era. He was born
Yadollah Royaee (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Yadollah Royaee (Persian: یدالله رؤیایی; 7 May 1932 – 12 September 2022) was an Iranian poet of the New Wave or the Poem of Imagination in Iranian Modern
Gopaldas Neeraj (515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gopaldas Saxena (known by his nom-de-plume, Neeraj; 4 January 1925 – 19 July 2018) was an Indian poet and author of Hindi literature. He was also a poet
Saraswati Pratikshya (239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Saraswati Pratikshya (Nepali: सरस्वती प्रतीक्षा) is a writer known for her novel Nathiya published in 2018. Before writing the novel, she had published
Shahin Frashëri (392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shahin Frashëri was an Albanian bejtexhi of the 19th century. His Mukhtarnameh poem is one of the longest and earliest epics in Albanian literature. Shahin
Suzani Samarqandi (254 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shams al-Dīn Muhammad b. ‘Alī (or possibly Mas‘ūd) (Persian: شمس‌الدین محمد بن علی) (d. 1166) was a poet born in Samarqand or its vicinity. He is more
Qatran Tabrizi (1,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Qatran Tabrizi (Persian: قطران تبریزی; 1009–1014 – after 1088) was a Persian writer, who is considered to have been one of the leading poets in 11th-century
Shams Tabrizi (2,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian Shafi'ite poet, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of
Din Mehmeti (280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Din Mehmeti (1932 – 12 November 2010) was an Albanian poet from Kosovo. He was among the best-known classical representatives of contemporary verse in
Iftikhar Arif (462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Iftikhar Hussain Arif (Urdu: افتخار حسین عارف; born 21 March 1944), is an Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur from Pakistan. His style is romantic Urdu
Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi (283 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Umm ‘Alī Taqiyya bint Abi’l-Faraj Ghayth b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abd al-Salām b. Muḥammad b. Ja‘far al-Sulamī al-Armanāzī al-Ṣūrī (أم علي تقية بنت أبى الفرج غيث بن
Omar Khayyam (8,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), was a Persian
Gulrukhsor Safieva (102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gulrukhsor Safieva (Tajik: Гулрухсор Сафиева; گلرخسار صفی‌اوا) (born 17 December 1947) is a prominent Iranologist, Persian literary figure and Tajik poet
Hafeez Jalandhari (903 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari (Urdu: ابو الاثر حفیظ جالندھری) (born 14 January 1900 – 21 December 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the
Pralhad Keshav Atre (708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Prahlad Keshav Atre (pronunciation (help·info)) (13 August 1898 – 13 June 1969), popularly known as Āchārya Atre, was a prominent Marathi writer, poet
Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn (1,010 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn (c. 1550 – c.1591) was an Irish poet. A well-known late-Gaelic era poet, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn was a member of a family of professional
Gopaldas Neeraj (515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gopaldas Saxena (known by his nom-de-plume, Neeraj; 4 January 1925 – 19 July 2018) was an Indian poet and author of Hindi literature. He was also a poet
Qatran Tabrizi (1,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Qatran Tabrizi (Persian: قطران تبریزی; 1009–1014 – after 1088) was a Persian writer, who is considered to have been one of the leading poets in 11th-century
Qaani (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mirza Habibollah Shirazi, known as Qaani (Persian: قاآنی‎, 20 October 1808 – 4 May 1854) was one of the most famous poets of the Qajar era. He was born
Gulrukhsor Safieva (102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gulrukhsor Safieva (Tajik: Гулрухсор Сафиева; گلرخسار صفی‌اوا) (born 17 December 1947) is a prominent Iranologist, Persian literary figure and Tajik poet
Hafeez Jalandhari (903 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari (Urdu: ابو الاثر حفیظ جالندھری) (born 14 January 1900 – 21 December 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the
Omar Khayyam (8,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), was a Persian
Pravin Darji (456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pravin Darji is Gujarati essayist, poet, critic and editor from India. Spand (1976), Charvana (1976), Dayarama (1978) and Pratyagra (1978) are some of
Baladeba Ratha (628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kabisurjya Baladeba Ratha (alternatively spelled Kabisurya, Kavisurya Baladev Rath, Odia: କବିସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ ବଳଦେବ ରଥ, romanized: Kabisūrjya Baḷadeba Ratha; c
Sunil Jogi (371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sunil Jogi is an Indian author. He is a poet of comic verses and the ex-president of  the Hindustani Academy, a post holding the rank of a Minister of
Guido Guinizelli (537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Pir Sultan Abdal (123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) is an important religious figure in Alevism, who is thought to be of Turkmen origin and to have been born in the village
Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji (339 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī (died c. 1072 AH [1662 CE]) was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher. His mentor in philosophy was his
Sehba Akhtar (447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sehba Akhtar (30 September 1931 – 19 February 1996) was a poet and a film songwriter in Pakistan. He was born Akhtar Ali Rehmat to Rehmat Ali Rehmat, a
Dallán Forgaill (1,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Eochaid mac Colla (c. 560 – 640), better known as Saint Dallán or Dallán Forgaill (Old Irish: Dallán Forchella; Latin: Dallanus Forcellius; Primitive Irish:
Pralhad Keshav Atre (708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Prahlad Keshav Atre (pronunciation (help·info)) (13 August 1898 – 13 June 1969), popularly known as Āchārya Atre, was a prominent Marathi writer, poet
Sarita Tiwari (402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sarita Tiwari (born 1980) is a Nepalese poet, writer and advocate. She has written three books till date and regularly writes articles and columns for
Kamal Khujandi (197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kamal Khujandi (1320-1400 AD, Persian: کمال خجندی), also Kamal Khojandi, Kamaleddin Khojandi, or Kamal-E Khojandi, was a Persian Sufi and Persian ghazal
Ramkumar Verma (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ramkumar Verma (15 September 1905 – 15 October 1990) was a Hindi poet who published one act-plays and several anthologies of his work. He was associated
Gyan Chand Jain (210 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gyan Chand Jain (1923-2007) was an Indian writer and scholar of Urdu literature. Born in 1923 at Seohara of Bijnore district in the Indian state of Uttar
Pádraig J. Daly (341 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pádraig J. Daly OSA (born 1943) is a contemporary Irish poet. Pádraig J. Daly was born near Dungarvan, County Waterford and is now working as an Augustinian
Nirmal Verma (1,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nirmal Verma (3 April 1929 – 25 October 2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the
Ramakanta Rath (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ramakanta Rath (born 13 December 1934) is one of the most renowned modernist poets in the Odia literature. Heavily influenced by the poets such as T. S
Kamala Surayya (2,635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian
Ibn-e-Insha (827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
President of Pakistan in 1978. List of Pakistani poets List of Urdu language poets List of Pakistani writers List of Urdu language writers Profile of Ibn-e-Insha
Jitendra Udhampuri (533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jitendra Udhampuri is an Indian writer of Dogri, Hindi and Urdu literature. He is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981. The Government of India
Agha Hashar Kashmiri (814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Agha Hashar Kashmiri (born Muhammad Shah, 3 April 1879 – 1 April 1935) was an Urdu poet, playwright and dramatist. A number of his plays were Indian Shakespearean
Dadaloğlu (383 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dadaloğlu (Veli) (1785 ?–1868 ?) was a Turkish Ottoman (bard), a folk poet-singer, known as Ozan. Two distinct literatures existed in the Ottoman Empire
Kristina Lugn (1,274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn (Swedish: [krɪsˈtîːna ˈlɵŋːn]; 14 November 1948 – 9 May 2020) was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish
Somnath Sigdel (382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Somnath Sigdel (Nepali: सोमनाथ सिग्देल or Nepali: सोमनाथ सिग्द्याल; 1884–1972; also known as Somnath Sigdyal) was a Nepalese renowned scholar and author
Elia Abu Madi (591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Elia Abu Madi (also known as Elia D. Madey; Arabic: إيليا أبو ماضي Īlyā Abū Māḍī ) (May 15, 1890 – November 23, 1957) was a Lebanese-born American poet
Mohan Koirala (373 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mohan Koirala (Nepali: मोहन कोइराला; 1926–2007) was a Nepalese poet, known for his prose poems and poems against the Rana regime. Some of this poems has
Ale Ahmad Suroor (763 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ale Ahmad Suroor (1911-2002) was an Urdu poet, critic and professor from India. He is best known for his literary criticism. In 1974 he was honoured with
Maysun bint Bahdal (1,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Maysun bint Bahdal (Arabic: ميسون بنت بحدل, romanized: Maysūn bint Baḥdal) was a wife of caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), and as mother of his successor
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (2 April 1898 – 23 June 1990) was an Indian English poet, dramatist, actor, musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from
Birendra Nath Datta (553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Birendra Nath Datta (born 1 March 1935) is an Indian academician, a linguist, a researcher of folklore, a singer and lyricists of Assam. In his career
Kesar Lall (510 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kesar Lall (Nepali: केसर लाल; 15 July 1926 – 26 December 2012) (alternative name: Kesar Lall Shrestha) was a Nepalese folklorist and writer. He has published
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (b. 204 AH/819 CE, d. 280 AH/August 893 CE) was a Persian linguist and poet of Arabic language. He was born in Baghdad
Ehmedê Xanî (457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ehmedê Xanî (Kurdish: ئەهمەدێ خانی, romanized: Ehmedê Xanî; 1650, Hakkari – 1707, Bayazid), was a Kurdish intellectual, scholar, mystic and poet who is
Satyendranath Dutta (626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Satyendranath Dutta (also spelt Satyendranath Datta or Satyendra Nath Dutta; Bengali: সত্যেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত) (1882 – 25 June 1922), a Bengali poet, is considered
Sarala Dasa (1,072 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sarala Dasa (born as Siddheswara Parida) was a 15th-century poet and scholar of Odia literature. Best known for three Odia books — Mahabharata, Vilanka
Dharanidhar Koirala (441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dharanidhar Koirala (Nepali: धरणीधर कोइराला;1893–1980; also known as Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala) was a Nepali poet sometimes known as Pandit-ji. Dharanidhar
Esad Mekuli (547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Esad Mekuli (Serbian Cyrillic: Есад Мекули; 17 December 1916, – 6 August 1993) was an Albanian poet, critic and translator. He was the first president
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani (Persian: فخرالدين اسعد گرگانی), was an 11th-century poet. He versified the story of
Atta Shad (484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Atta Shad (Balochi, Urdu: عطا شاد , born 1 November 1939 – 13 February 1997) was a Pakistani poet, critic, playwright, researcher and intellectual. He
Ottan Thullal (446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Kunchan Nambiar, one of the Prachina Kavithrayam (three famous Malayalam-language poets). The folksy performance, often laced with humour intended at criticism
Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (345 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1933–2010) was an Indian poet, lyricist and a former Features Editor of the Navbharat Times. He also edited the Hindi magazines Parag
Mohan Koirala (373 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mohan Koirala (Nepali: मोहन कोइराला; 1926–2007) was a Nepalese poet, known for his prose poems and poems against the Rana regime. Some of this poems has
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (2 April 1898 – 23 June 1990) was an Indian English poet, dramatist, actor, musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from
Mahsati (1,066 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mahsati (Persian: مهستی, romanized: Mahsati) was a medieval Persian female poet who was reportedly one of the first poets to compose ruba'iyat (quatrains)
Maysun bint Bahdal (1,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Maysun bint Bahdal (Arabic: ميسون بنت بحدل, romanized: Maysūn bint Baḥdal) was a wife of caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), and as mother of his successor
Georg Neumark (575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Georg Neumark (16 March 1621 – 8 July 1681) was a German poet and composer of hymns. Neumark was born in Langensalza, the son of Michael Neumark and his
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani (Persian: فخرالدين اسعد گرگانی), was an 11th-century poet. He versified the story of
Qutayla ukht al-Nadr (1,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of the Quraysh tribe, noted as one of the earliest attested Arabic-language poets on account of her famous elegy for Nadr ibn al-Harith. Qutayla appears
Somnath Sigdel (382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Somnath Sigdel (Nepali: सोमनाथ सिग्देल or Nepali: सोमनाथ सिग्द्याल; 1884–1972; also known as Somnath Sigdyal) was a Nepalese renowned scholar and author
Kamala Sankrityayan (345 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kamala Sankrityayan (née Pariyar; 1920-2009) was a 20th century Indian writer, editor and scholar of Hindi and Nepali literature. She was the wife of the
Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani (304 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ghulām Muṣṭafā al-Burdwānī (Arabic: غلام مصطفى البردواني), or alternatively Golam Mostafa Bardhamani (Bengali: গোলাম মোস্তফা বর্ধমানী), was an 18th-century
Ehmedê Xanî (457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ehmedê Xanî (Kurdish: ئەهمەدێ خانی, romanized: Ehmedê Xanî; 1650, Hakkari – 1707, Bayazid), was a Kurdish intellectual, scholar, mystic and poet who is
Radha Mohan Gadanayak (463 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Radha Mohan Gadanayak-ରାଧାମୋହନ ଗଡ଼ନାୟକ(Odia) (1911–2000) was an Indian poet of Odia literature, known for his ballads and poetic creations. The poet, considered
Syed Shamsul Haque (696 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Syed Shamsul Haq (27 December 1935 – 27 September 2016) was a Bangladeshi writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1966 (the youngest among
Selim I (4,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
This article contains Ottoman Turkish text, written from right to left with some Arabic letters and additional symbols joined. Without proper rendering
Usha Sherchan (554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Usha Sherchan (née Bhattachan; born 22 August 1955) is a Nepalese poet, lyricist and writer. She has published three collections of poetry, a collection
Majrooh Sultanpuri (2,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Asrar ul Hassan Khan (1 October 1919 − 24 May 2000), better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in India's Hindi language
Bahadur Shah Zafar (3,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bahadur Shah II (born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad; 24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (843 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (9 August 1909 – 28 April 1992), abbreviated in Kannada as Vi. Kru. Gokak, was an Indian historian and writer in the Kannada language
Pur-Baha Jami (657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tāj al-Din ibn Bahā al-Din better known as Pur-Baha Jami (Persian: پوربهای جامی, romanized: Pūr Bahā-ye Jāmī; born in Jam, Khorasan, present-day Afghanistan
Ram Vilas Sharma (574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ram Vilas Sharma (10 October 1912 – 30 May 2000) was a progressive literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker. He was born in Unchgaon Sani, Unnao District
Muzaffar Warsi (870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; Urdu: مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing
Aslam Farrukhi (529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aslam Farrukhi (Urdu: اسلم فرخی) (23 October 1923 – 15 June 2016) was an Urdu author, literary critic, linguist, scholar, and radio scriptwriter from Pakistan
Hamdallah Mustawfi (1,982 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini (Persian: حمدالله مستوفى قزوینی, romanized: Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian
Abhimanyu Samanta Singhara (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abhimanyu Samanta Singhara (Odia: ଅଭିମନ୍ୟୁ ସାମନ୍ତସିଂହାର, romanized: Abhimanyu Sāmanta Singhāra, 23 February 1760 – 15 Jun 1806) was an 18th-century Odia
Saghar Nizami (582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Saghar Nizami (1905–1983), also known as Samad Yar Khan, was an Indian poet and writer of ghazal and nazm in Urdu. He was one of the earliest disciples
Nalini Bala Devi (654 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nalini Bala Devi (23 March 1898– 24 December 1977) was an Indian writer and poet of Assamese literature, known for nationalistic as well as mystical poetry
Muhja bint al-Tayyani (253 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muhja bint al-Tayyani (Arabic: مهجة بنت التياني القرطبية, born in Córdoba, died in Córdoba 1097 CE) was an eleventh-century Andalusian poet. Hardly any
Shabnam Shakeel (577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shabnam Shakeel (Urdu: شبنم شکیل ALA-LC: S̱ẖabnam S̱ẖakīl IPA: [ʃəbnəm ʃəkiːl]; 12 March 1942 – 2 March 2013) was a Pakistani poet, writer, and academician
Ahmad NikTalab (674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahmad NikTalab (Persian: احمد نیک‌طلب, Persian pronunciation: [æh.mæd ni:k.'tæ.læb]; (22 April 1934 – 3 March 2020), also known as Yavar Hamedani (Persian:
Fadl al-Sha'irah (398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fadl al-Qaysi or Faḍl al-Shāʻirah (Arabic: فضل الشاعرة "Faḍl the Poet"; d. 871) was one of "three early ʻAbbasid singing girls ... particularly famous
Shankha Ghosh (1,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sankha Ghosh (born Chittapriya Ghosh; 5 February 1932 – 21 April 2021) was an Indian poet and literary critic. He was born in Chandpur District of the
Buthaina bint al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (89 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Buthaina bint al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (Arabic: بثينة بنت المعتمد بن عباد) was a poet of Al-Andalus. She was born in 1070 and was the daughter of al-Mu'tamid
Volker Braun (967 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich (Provocation for me) – a collection of poems written
Moti Laxmi Upasika (507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Moti Laxmi Upasika (Nepali: मोतिलक्ष्मी उपासिका) (30 June 1909 – 1997) was Nepal's first woman poet and short story writer of modern times. Her first work
Kalim Aajiz (644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kalim Aajiz (1920 – 14 February 2015) was an Indian writer of Urdu literature and a poet. He was an academic and chairman of the Urdu Advisory Committee
Shiv K. Kumar (1,227 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Shiv K. Kumar (16 August 1921, Lahore, British India – 1 March 2017, Hyderabad, India) was an Indian English-language poet, playwright, novelist, and short
Jeelani Bano (554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jeelani Bano is an Indian writer of Urdu literature. She was honored by the Government of India, in 2001, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award
Jilani Kamran (489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Professor Jilani Kamran (born Ghulam Jilani; 24 August 1926 – 22 February 2003), also spelled Gilani Kamran, was a Pakistani poet, critic, teacher, and
Masroor Anwar (456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Masroor Anwar (6 January 1944 – 1 April 1996) was a ghazal poet, film song lyricist and a film screenwriter. He wrote the lyrics for 'Ko Ko Korina', South
Sandeep Khare (1,070 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sandeep Khare is a Marathi poet, performing artist, actor, singer-songwriter, copywriter from Pune. So far he has published 3 of his books which are poetry
Igor Guberman (496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Igor Mironovich Guberman (Russian: И́горь Миро́нович Губерма́н, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ mʲɪˈronəvʲɪtɕ ɡʊbʲɪrˈman] (listen), born 7 July 1936, Kharkiv) is a Russian
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1,772 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud b. Mosleh Shirazi (1236–1311) (Persian: قطب‌الدین محمود بن ضیاالدین مسعود بن مصلح شیرازی) was a 13th-century Persian
Tulasi Diwasa (193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tulsi Prasad Joshi (Nepali: तुलसी दिवस; Tulasi Diwasa) is a Nepalese literary figure and folklore expert. He is a prominent name in modern Nepali poetry
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1,318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (4 July 1715 – 13 December 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was
Iranshah (poet) (445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Hakim Iranshah ibn Abi al-Khayr (Persian: حکیم ایرانشاه بن ابی الخیر), commonly known as Iranshah (ایرانشاه; or Iranshan), was a Persian poet who lived
Tulasi Diwasa (193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tulsi Prasad Joshi (Nepali: तुलसी दिवस; Tulasi Diwasa) is a Nepalese literary figure and folklore expert. He is a prominent name in modern Nepali poetry
Taleb Amoli (588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Taleb Amoli known as Talib Amuli and Talib Amoli (Persian: طالب آملی, also aka Ashub, Atash, Taleba and Malek Al Shoara Taleb) (b
17th century in poetry (582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Thomas Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Choirs"), hymns, some of which are still sung Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh Martin Opitz, Das Buch der Deutschen
Ibrahim ibn al-Mudabbir (323 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abū Isḥāq (or Abū Yusr) Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Mudabbir (Arabic: أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد بن عبدالله بن المدبّر) commonly simply known
Benudhar Sharma (134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Benudhar Sharma (Assamese: বেণুধৰ শৰ্মা Beṇudhara Śarmmā, 1894–1981) was a noted writer, translator, journalist, historical researcher, and freedom fighter
Volker Braun (967 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich (Provocation for me) – a collection of poems written
Krishna Chandra Singh Pradhan (212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Krishna Chandra Singh Pradhan (Nepali: कृष्णचन्द्रसिंह प्रधान; 1925–2010) was a famous litterateur and critic of Nepal. He received the prestigious Madan
Sejfulla Malëshova (585 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sejfulla Malëshova (2 March 1900 – 9 June 1971) was an Albanian politician, writer and translator. He was an early member of the Communist leadership in
Rahat Indori (943 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rahat Indori, born as Rahat Qureshi, (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet. He was also a former professor of
Savitribai Phule (2,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Savitribai Phule (pronunciation) was the first female teacher in India, Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. Along with her
Motilal Jotwani (691 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Motilal Wadhumal Jotwani was an Indian writer, educationist, gandhian and a former post doctoral fellow of Harvard Divinity School who specialized in Sindhi
Michael Hartnett (1,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Michael Hartnett (Irish: Mícheál Ó hAirtnéide) (18 September 1941 – 13 October 1999) was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. He was one
Siddhidas Mahaju (569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Siddhidas Mahaju (Nepali: सिद्धिदास महाजु) (alternative name: Siddhidas Amatya) (15 October 1867 – 29 December 1929) was a Nepalese poet and one of the
Maithili Sharan Gupt (634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1954.[citation needed] List of Hindi-language poets Sharma, Rahul. "राष्ट्रकवि मैथिलीशरण गुप्त की जीवनी Maithili Sharan
Bhalchandra Nemade (1,014 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade (born 1938) is an Indian Marathi language writer, poet, critic and linguistic scholar. Beginning with his debut novel Kosala
Ubayd Zakani (791 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Khwajeh Nizam al-Din Ubayd Allah al-Zakani (Persian: خواجه نظام الدین عبید الله الزاکانی, romanized: Ḵwājeh Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Zākānī; d. 1370)
Waris Shah (752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2006 which had Gurdas Maan in the role of Waris Shah. List of Punjabi language poets eBook in Shahmukhi Punjabi language on Academy of the Punjab in North
Jens Baggesen (690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jens Immanuel Baggesen (15 February 1764 – 3 October 1826) was a major Danish poet, librettist, critic, and comic writer. Baggesen was born at Korsør on
Paul Celan (3,949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
adopted the pseudonym "Paul Celan". He became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. Celan was born into a German-speaking
Iranshah (poet) (445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Hakim Iranshah ibn Abi al-Khayr (Persian: حکیم ایرانشاه بن ابی الخیر), commonly known as Iranshah (ایرانشاه; or Iranshan), was a Persian poet who lived
Nikolaus Herman (828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nikolaus Herman (first name also Nicolaus or Niklas; c. 1500 – 3 May 1561) was a German Lutheran cantor and teacher, creating numerous Protestant hymns
Nida Fazli (1,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli, known as Nida Fazli (12 October 1938 – 8 February 2016), was a prominent Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer
Soubhagya Kumar Misra (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Soubhagya Kumar Misra (b. 1941) in an Indian poet and writer from Odisha. The Sahitya Akademi India's National Academy of Letters, awarded him the Sahitya
Lindita Arapi (514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Lindita Arapi (born 30 June 1972) is an Albanian writer and journalist. She is cited as a noteworthy example of a generation of female Albanian writers
Rama II (1,323 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai (Thai: พระพุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย, 24 February 1767 or 1768 – 21 July 1824), personal name Chim (Thai: ฉิม), also styled as Rama
Domenico Bellizzi (253 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Domenico Bellizzi (1918–1989), also known under the pseudonym of Vorea Ujko, is among the most popular and respected of the Arbëresh poets. Domenico Bellizzi
Manuchehri (1,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Najm Aḥmad ibn Qauṣ ibn Aḥmad Manūčihrī (Persian: ابونجم احمد ابن قوص ابن احمد منوچهری دامغانی), a.k.a. Manuchehri Dāmghānī (fl. 1031–1040), was an
Khaqani (1,374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān, commonly known as Khāqānī (Persian: خاقانی, IPA: [xɒːɣɒːˈniː], c. 1120 – c. 1199), was a major Persian poet and
Ahmad Faraz (740 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Syed Ahmad Shah (Urdu: سید احمد شاہ), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, (Urdu: احمد فراز 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu
Shakeel Badayuni (1,332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shakeel Badayuni (3 August 1916 – 20 April 1970) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films. Shakeel Badayuni was
Ahmad Shah I (3,235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ahmad Shah I, born Ahmad Khan, was a ruler of the Muzaffarid dynasty, who reigned over the Gujarat Sultanate from 1411 until his death in 1442. He was
Keshav Malik (634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Keshav Malik (5 November, 1924 – 11 June, 2014) was an Indian poet, art and literary critic, arts scholar, and curator. He remained art critic for the
Nadia Anjuman (1,395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nadia Anjuman (Persian: نادیا انجمن; December 27, 1980 – November 4, 2005) was a poet from Afghanistan. Nadia Anjuman Herawi was born in Herat in northwestern
Jaun Elia (850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known as Jaun Elia (Urdu: جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was an Indo-Pakistani poet, philosopher
Al-Hujayjah (777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Al-Ḥujayjah (Arabic: الحجيجة), also known as Safīyah bint Thaʻlabah al-Shaybānīyah (Arabic: صفية بنت ثعلبة الشيبانية) was a pre-Islamic poet of the Banū
Birbal (2,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Birbal (IPA: [biːrbəl]; born Mahesh Das; 1528 – 16 February 1586), or Raja Birbal, was a Saraswat Hindu Bhatt Brahmin advisor and main commander (Mukhya
Llazar Siliqi (655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Llazar Siliqi (1924 – 2001) was a notable Albanian poet. His poetic profile was influenced by the work of Mayakovsky. Siliqi was born in Shkodër, the son
Nezim Frakulla (273 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nezim Berati (ca. 1680–1760), alternatively known as Nezim Frakulla or Ibrahim Nezimi, was the first major poet among the Bejtexhinj, popular poets in
Loni Logori (683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Loni Logori (1871–1929) was an Albanian-Egyptian entrepreneur, poet, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Logori was born in 1871 in Korçë
Giulio Variboba (486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba; 1725–1788) was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language
Shabbir Ahmed (lyricist) (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Shabbir Ahmed is an Indian Bollywood lyricist and music composer . He was nominated for the Lyricist of the Year at the 4th Mirchi Music Awards for the
Filip Shiroka (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Filip Shiroka (1859 – 1935) was a classical Rilindja (Albanian: Renaissance) poet. He was born and raised in Shkodër and educated there by the Franciscans
Manuchehri (1,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu Najm Aḥmad ibn Qauṣ ibn Aḥmad Manūčihrī (Persian: ابونجم احمد ابن قوص ابن احمد منوچهری دامغانی), a.k.a. Manuchehri Dāmghānī (fl. 1031–1040), was an
Banira Giri (822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Banira Giri (11 April 1946–24 May 2021) was a Nepalese poet and novelist, best known for her novels such as Karagar, Nirbandha and her poetry collections
Taliesin (3,455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Taliesin (/ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/ tal-YES-in, Welsh: [talˈjɛsɪn]; fl. 6th century AD) was an early Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived
Shabbir Ahmed (lyricist) (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Shabbir Ahmed is an Indian Bollywood lyricist and music composer . He was nominated for the Lyricist of the Year at the 4th Mirchi Music Awards for the
Filip Shiroka (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Filip Shiroka (1859 – 1935) was a classical Rilindja (Albanian: Renaissance) poet. He was born and raised in Shkodër and educated there by the Franciscans
Shakeel Badayuni (1,332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shakeel Badayuni (3 August 1916 – 20 April 1970) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films. Shakeel Badayuni was
Bijaya Malla (582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bijaya Malla (Nepali: विजय मल्ल) (23 June 1925 – 24 July 1999) was a Nepalese poet, novelist and playwright. Malla wrote multiple novels, plays and poems
Birbal (2,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Birbal (IPA: [biːrbəl]; born Mahesh Das; 1528 – 16 February 1586), or Raja Birbal, was a Saraswat Hindu Bhatt Brahmin advisor and main commander (Mukhya
William Williams Pantycelyn (1,962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
William Williams, Pantycelyn (c. 11 February 1717 – 11 January 1791), also known as William Williams, Williams Pantycelyn, and Pantycelyn, is generally
G. Allana (508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ghulam Ali Allana known as G. Allana (22 August 1906 – 8 March 1985) was a friend and biographer of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Mr. Allana
Ernest Koliqi (455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ernest Koliqi (20 May 1903 – 15 January 1975) was an Albanian journalist, politician, translator, teacher and writer. Born in Shkodra, where he also attended
Giulio Variboba (486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba; 1725–1788) was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language
Johann Nestroy (939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (German: [ˈnɛstrɔɪ̯]; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian
Sitanshu Yashaschandra (1,087 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta (born 19 August 1941), better known as Sitanshu Yashaschandra, is a Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic
Ata ul Haq Qasmi (617 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ata ul Haq Qasmi (Punjabi, Urdu: عطا الحق قاسمی) is a Pakistani Urdu-language newspaper columnist, playwright and poet. He has written around twenty books
Paul Fleming (poet) (1,679 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Paul Fleming, also spelt Flemming (5 October 1609 – 2 April 1640), was a German physician and poet. As well as writing notable verse and hymns, he spent
Karunaratne Abeysekera (694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Karunaratne Abeysekera (3 June 1930 – 20 April 1983) was one of Sri Lanka's most famous Sinhala broadcasters. He was also a poet and songwriter and was
Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara (Memoirs of
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (2,637 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (3 March 1900 – 26 September 1966) was a political activist from Bihar, prominent in the Indian independence movement. Ajazi was born
Xhevahir Spahiu (446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Xhevahir Spahiu (born 1 March 1945 in Malind, Skrapar District, Albania) is an Albanian poet. Spahiu studied at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Philology
Nara Nath Acharya (776 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pandit Kaviraj Nara Nath Acharya (1906–1988) was a Nepalese Pandit (Sanskrit Scholar), Kaviraj (Ayurvedic physician) and writer of Sanskrit and Nepali
Amiya Chakravarty (818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Amiya Chandra Chakravarty (1901–1986) was an Indian literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet. He was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore, and edited
Namdeo Dhasal (864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India. He was one of the founders
Sarah Kirsch (820 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sarah Kirsch (German: [ˈzaː.ʁa ˈkɪʁʃ] (listen); 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet. Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode
Mangesh Padgaonkar (1,278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mangesh Keshav Padgaoankar (10 March 1929 – 30 December 2015) was a legendary Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India. Padgaonkar was born on 10 March 1929
Seyrani (337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Seyrani Turkish: Âşık Seyrani (born 1800 - 1866) was a Turkish folk poet The date of birth of Seyrani from Develi (Everek) is not certain. There are records
Jinaharsha (142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jinaharsha was a Jain ascetic poet who lived in 17th and 18th century. He was a disciple of Shantiharsha of Kharatara Gaccha. He spent last years of his
Johann Michael Moscherosch (821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Johann Michael Moscherosch (7 March 1601 – 4 April 1669), German statesman, satirist, and educator, was born at Willstätt, on the Upper Rhine near Strassburg
Saru Bhakta (734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Saru Bhakta (Nepali: सरुभक्त) is the pen name of Bhakta Raj Shrestha, a celebrated Nepalese playwright, novelist, songwriter and poet and a winner of Madan
Amrita Pritam (2,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Amrita Pritam (listen (help·info); 31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. A prominent
Christian Morgenstern (1,083 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch
Constantine of Berat (1,142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Constantine of Berat, known among Albanians as Kostandin Jermonak Berati or shortly Kostë Berati, was an Albanian writer and translator of the 18th century
Falaki Shirvani (1,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Muhammad Falaki (Persian: محمد فلکی: 1107–1155), commonly known as Falaki Shirvani (فلکی شروانی) was a poet who served at the court of the Shirvanshah
Farrukhi Sistani (761 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani (Persian: ابوالحسن علی بن جولوغ فرخی سیستانی), better known as Farrukhi Sistani (فرخی سیستانی; c. 1000 – 1040)
Dalip Frashëri (846 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dalip bey Frashëri, also known with the pen-name Hyxhretiu (the exiled), was an Albanian Bektashi sheikh and bejtexhi of the 19th century. His poem Kopshti
Pär Lagerkvist (1,460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (1,587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (also spelled Araqi; Persian: فخرالدین عراقی; 1213/14 – 1289) was a Persian Sufi poet of the 13th-century. He is principally known for
Stanley Kunitz (1,915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (/ˈkjuːnɪts/; July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library
Qasmuna (552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Qasmūna bint Ismāʿil (Arabic: قسمونة بنت إسماعيل; fl. 11th or 12th century CE), sometimes called Xemone, was an Iberian Jewish poet. She is the only female
Girish Chandra Ghosh (1,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Girish Chandra Ghosh (28 February 1844 – 8 February 1912) was a Bengali actor, director, and writer. He was largely responsible for the golden age of Bengali
Acharya Shivpujan Sahay (722 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Acharya Shivpujan Sahay (9 August 1893 – 21 January 1963) was a noted Hindi and Bhojpuri novelist, editor and prose writer. He contributed in pioneering
Kul Bahadur KC (626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kul Bahadur K.C. (Nepali: कुलबहादुर के.सी.) (28 June 1946 - 14 March 2013) is one of the most significant Nepali poets. He is known for his well-rhymed
Aminollah Rezaei (988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aminollah Rezaei (Persian: امین‌الله رضایی; March 22, 1936 – September 3, 2004) was an Iranian painter, designer and poet. He was the first person to introduce
Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar (675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar (Punjabi: خلیل الرحمان قمر) is a Pakistani writer, director, Urdu poet, lyricist and occasional actor known for writing such dramas