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20th-century linguists

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Abdurrahman SharafkandiAuthor · BooksAbdurrahman Sharafkandi (14 April 1921 – 21 February 1991), better known by his pen name Hejar or Hazhar, was an Iranian Kurdish writer, poet, lexicographer, linguist, and translator.
Adam ZagajewskiAuthor · BooksAdam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.
Agostinho da SilvaAuthor · BooksGeorge Agostinho Baptista da Silva, GCSE (ɐɣuʃˈtiɲu ðɐ ˈsilvɐ; Porto, 13 February 1906 – Lisbon, 3 April 1994) was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer.
Aki ShimazakiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Aki Shimazaki
Alejandra PizarnikAuthor · BooksFlora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet.
Aleš ŠtegerAuthor · BooksAleš Šteger (born 31 May 1973) is a Slovene poet, writer, translator and editor. Aleš belongs to a generation of writers that started to publish right after the fall of Yugoslavia.
Alexander MezhirovAuthor · BooksIllustration — Alexander Mezhirov 1980
Alojz RebulaAuthor · BooksAlojz Rebula (June 21, 1924 – October 23, 2018) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy.
Amanda AizpurieteAuthor · BooksAmanda Aizpuriete (28 March 1956 – 22 October 2023) was a Latvian poet and translator.
Amos OzAuthor · BooksAmos Oz (born Amos Klausner (עמוס קלוזנר); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual.
Anabel TorresAuthor · BooksAnabel Torres Restrepo (born 28 December 1948) is a Colombian poet and translator.
Anatoly KudryavitskyAuthor · BooksAnatoly Kudryavitsky (Russian: Анатолий Исаевич Кудрявицкий; born 17 August 1954) is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet, editor and literary translator.
Andrej ŽarnovAuthor · BooksAndrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, (November 19, 1903 in Kuklov (Kukló), Austria-Hungary (today:Slovakia) – March 16, 1982 in Poughkeepsie City, New York, United States) was a Slovak…
Angela CarterAuthor · BooksAngela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist,…
Anneke BrassingaAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Anneke Brassinga in 2015
Antoine CassarAuthor · BooksAntoine Christopher A. F. Cassar (born 1978 in London) is a Maltese poet and translator.
Antonio FontánAuthor · BooksAntonio Fontán Pérez, 1st Marquess of Guadalcanal (15 October 1923 – 14 January 2010) was a Spanish journalist recognized for his work in promoting press freedom in his country.
Åse-Marie NesseAuthor · BooksÅse-Marie Nesse (29 April 1934 – 13 July 2001) was a Norwegian philologist, translator and poet.
Assia DjebarPerson · Film memorabiliaFatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.
Ataol BehramoğluAuthor · BooksAtaol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
Bagrat ShinkubaAuthor · BooksBagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba (12 May 1917 – 25 February 2004) was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician.
Bernard DubourgAuthor · BooksIllustration — Bernard Dubourg
Besim BokshiAuthor · BooksBesim Bokshi (12 November 1930 – 16 August 2014) was an Albanian poet, linguist and philologist. He served as the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo during 2008-2011.
Bo RalphAuthor · BooksBo Rune Ingemar Ralph (born 4 October 1945) is a Swedish linguist, member of the Swedish Academy, and professor of Nordic Languages at the Department of Swedish Language at University of…
Boris UspenskijArtist · PaintingsBoris Andreevich Uspenskij (born 1937, in Moscow) is a Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, and historian of culture.
Burton RaffelAuthor · BooksBurton Nathan Raffel (April 27, 1928 – September 29, 2015) was an American writer, translator, poet and professor.
Carles Duarte i MontserratAuthor · BooksCarles Duarte i Montserrat (Barcelona, September 16, 1959) is a Catalan poet, linguist and politician, brother of the historian Àngel Duarte Montserrat.
Cesare PaveseAuthor · BooksCesare Pavese (9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist.
Chit PhumisakAuthor · BooksChit Phumisak (also spelt Jit Poumisak; Thai: จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์, pronounced [tɕìt pʰūː.mí.sàk];
Ciril ZlobecAuthor · BooksCiril Zlobec (4 July 1925 – 24 August 2018) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician.
Cole SwensenAuthor · BooksCole Swensen (born 1955) is an American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor.
Dahlia RavikovitchAuthor · BooksDahlia Ravikovitch (November 17, 1936 – August 21, 2005) was an Israeli poet, translator and recipient of the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1998.
David AlbaharAuthor · BooksDavid Albahari (Давид Албахари; 15 March 1948 – 30 July 2023) was a Serbian novelist.
David Dean ShulmanAuthor · BooksDavid Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949) is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam,…
David McDuffAuthor · BooksDavid McDuff (born 1945, Sale, Cheshire, England) is a Scottish translator, editor and literary critic.
David MitchellPerson · Music memorabiliaDavid Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist and screenwriter, who has also translated two children's books.
Dmitry LikhachovAuthor · BooksDmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (also spelled Dmitrii Likhachev or Dmitry Likhachov; – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and an inmate of Gulag.
Dobriša CesarićAuthor · BooksDobriša Cesarić (10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator. In 1951, he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Douglas YoungAuthor · BooksDouglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young (5 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish poet, scholar, translator and politician.
Dragutin TadijanovićAuthor · BooksDragutin Tadijanović (4 November 1905 – 27 June 2007) was a Croatian poet, and in his native Croatia he is referred to as a "Bard."
Edith PargeterAuthor · BooksEdith Mary Pargeter (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical…
Edvard KocbekAuthor · BooksEdvard Kocbek (pron) (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian Yugoslav poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene…
Edward BalcerzanAuthor · BooksEdward Balcerzan (born 13 October 1937) is a Polish literary critic, poet, prose writer, and translator.
Edwin O. ReischauerAuthor · BooksEdwin Oldfather Reischauer (RYSHE-ow-ər; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Edwin O.
Eeva-Liisa MannerAuthor · BooksEeva-Liisa Manner (5 December 1921 – 7 July 1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright and translator.
Ehsan DanishAuthor · BooksEhsan Danish (17 November 1914 – 22 March 1982), born Ehsan-ul-Haq), was an Urdu poet, prose writer, linguist, lexicographer and scholar from Pakistan.
Elena FanailovaAuthor · BooksElena Nikolayevna Fanailova (Еле́на Никола́евна Фана́йлова; born 19 December 1962) is a Russian poet.
Eriks ĀdamsonsAuthor · BooksEriks Ādamsons (22 June 1907 – 28 February 1946) was a Latvian writer, poet and novelist.
Erri De LucaAuthor · BooksEnrico "Erri" De Luca (born 20 May 1950, Naples) is an Italian novelist, translator and poet.
Gabriel FerraterAuthor · BooksGabriel Ferrater i Soler (20 May 1922 – 27 April 1972) was an author, translator and scholar of linguistics of the sixties who wrote in the Catalan language.
Gabriel TalphirAuthor · BooksGabriel (Joseph) Talphir (1901–1990) was an Israeli poet, art critic, publisher, editor and translator.
Gaston WaringhienAuthor · BooksGaston Waringhien (July 20, 1901 – December 20, 1991) was a French linguist, lexicographer, and Esperantist. He wrote poems as well as essays and books on linguistics.
Gavino LeddaPerson · Film memorabiliaGavino Ledda (Gavinu 'e Ledda; born 30 December 1938) is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian.
George Campbell HayAuthor · BooksGeorge Campbell Hay (1915–1984) was a Scottish Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. He used the patronymic Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa.
George LakoffAuthor · BooksGeorge Philip Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual…
Gérard ÉtienneAuthor · BooksGérard Vergniaud Étienne (28 May 1936 – 14 December 2008) was a linguist, journalist and writer of poems, novels and essays.
Gjekë MarinajAuthor · BooksGjekë Marinaj is an Albanian–American poet, writer, translator and literary critic who is also known as the founder of a form of arts criticism known as Protonism Theory.
Gopi Chand NarangAuthor · BooksGopi Chand Narang (11 February 193115 June 2022) was an Indian theorist, literary critic, and scholar who wrote in Urdu and English.
Gregorio SalvadorAuthor · BooksGregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2020) was a Spanish linguist specialized in structural semantics.
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteAuthor · BooksGuillermo Cabrera Infante (ɡiˈʝeɾmo kaˈβɾeɾa iɱˈfante; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic;
Güzin DinoAuthor · BooksGüzin Dino (1910 – May 30, 2013) was a Turkish literary scholar, linguist, translator and writer. She is known for writing from a Marxist perspective.
H. C. ArtmannArtist · PaintingsHans Carl Artmann (12 June 1921 – 4 December 2000), also known as Ib Hansen, was an Austrian poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese (med ana schwoazzn dintn,…
Halldór LaxnessAuthor · BooksHalldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Hanni OssottAuthor · BooksHanni Ossott (14 February 1946 – 31 December 2002) was a Venezuelan poet, translator and critic.
Hans WollschlägerPerson · Music memorabiliaHans Wollschläger (17 March 1935, in Minden – 19 May 2007, in Bamberg) was a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.
Haruki MurakamiAuthor · BooksHaruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold…
Herbert MeierAuthor · BooksHerbert Meier (29 August 1928 – 21 September 2018) was a Swiss writer and translator.
Herta MüllerAuthor · BooksHerta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Humphrey TonkinAuthor · BooksHumphrey R. Tonkin (born 2 December 1939) is professor of English, and served as the 4th president of the University of Hartford.
Ihor PavlyukAuthor · BooksIhor Pavlyuk (sometimes spelled as Ihor Pawlyuk, Igor Pavlyk, Igor Pavluk; Ukrainian: І́гор Зино́війович Павлю́к, Russian: Игорь Зиновьевич Павлюк, born 1 January 1967 in Rozhysche Raion,…
Ilmar LaabanAuthor · BooksIlmar Laaban (11 December 1921, Tallinn, Estonia – 29 November 2000, Stockholm) was an Estonian poet and literary critic.
Irena KlepfiszAuthor · BooksIrena Klepfisz (born April 17, 1941) is a Jewish lesbian author, academic and activist.
Ivan ČičmanecAuthor · BooksIvan Čičmanec (born 21 August 1942, Bratislava, Slovakia) is a Slovak writer, poet, essayist and translator.
Ivan MinattiAuthor · BooksIvan Minatti (22 March 1924 – 9 June 2012) was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor.
Ivonka SurviłaArtist · PaintingsIvonka Survilla (born Iwonka Szymaniec, 11 April 1936) is the President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, a Belarusian government in exile.
Jack HibberdAuthor · BooksJohn Charles Hibberd (12 April 1940 – 30 August 2024) was an Australian playwright best known for his plays Dimboola (1969) and A Stretch of the Imagination (1972). He was also a physician.
Jaime SilesAuthor · BooksIllustration — Jaime Siles
Jean-François LyotardAuthor · BooksJean-François Lyotard (lang; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998)[5] was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.
Jerzy FicowskiAuthor · BooksJerzy Tadeusz Ficowski (4 October 1924 in Warsaw – 9 May 2006 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer, ethnographer and translator (from Yiddish, Russian, Romani and Hungarian).
Jerzy ZagórskiAuthor · BooksJerzy Zagórski (3 December 1907 – 5 August 1984) was a Polish poet, essayist and translator. Member of literary group Żagary.
Jiří StránskýAuthor · BooksJiří Stránský (12 August 1931 – 29 May 2019) was a Czech author, playwright, translator, screenwriter, twice a political prisoner of the communist regime, and human rights advocate.
John CiardiAuthor · BooksJohn Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.
John DeFrancisAuthor · BooksJohn DeFrancis (August 31, 1911January 2, 2009) was an American linguist and sinologist.
John M. AllegroPhotographer · PhotographyJohn Marco Allegro (17 February 1923 – 17 February 1988) was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
Jon JuaristiAuthor · BooksJon Juaristi Linacero (born in Bilbao in 1951) is a Spanish poet, essayist and translator in Spanish and Basque, as well as a self-confessed former ETA militant. He lives in Madrid.
Jorge de SenaAuthor · BooksJorge Cândido Alves Rodrigues Telles Grilo Raposo de Abreu de Sena (2 November 1919 – 4 June 1978) was a Portuguese-born poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and…
Joscelyn GodwinPerson · Music memorabiliaJoscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945) is a historian of the occult and esotericism.
Joseph AquilinaAuthor · BooksĠużè Aquilina (7 April 1911 – 8 August 1997), often called Joseph Aquilina in English, was a Maltese author and linguist born in Munxar.
Julia StonePerson · Music memorabiliaJulia Natasha Stone (born 13 April 1984) is an Australian folk singer-songwriter. She is a sister of Angus Stone, with whom she has collaborated in professional music, and is also a solo…
Julio CortázarAuthor · BooksJulio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
Jung ChangAuthor · BooksJung Chang (born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in…
Karel TeigeDesigner · Modern designKarel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement.
Karin LannbyAuthor · BooksKarin Tekla Maria Lannby (13 April 1916 – 19 November 2007), credited in French films and publications as Maria Cyliakus, was a Swedish actress, translator, journalist, poet and spy.
Karl DedeciusAuthor · BooksKarl Dedecius (20 May 1921 in Łódź – 26 February 2016) - was a Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature.
Kasym TynystanovAuthor · BooksKasym Tynystanov (10 September 1901 – 6 November 1938) was a Kyrgyz linguist, politician and poet.
Katherine Siva SaubelAuthor · BooksKatherine Siva Saubel (Siva; March 7, 1920 – November 1, 2011) was a Native American scholar, educator, tribal leader, author, and activist committed to preserving her Cahuilla history,…
Kazimierz FlatauPerson · Music memorabiliaKazimierz Flatau (11 July 1910 in Warsaw – 25 July 2000 in Poznań) was a Polish harpsichordist, music critic, physicist, translator, and astrologist.
Ken GeorgeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Kenneth J. George, May 2006
Ken LiuAuthor · Books
Kiyoshi JinzaiAuthor · BooksKiyoshi Jinzai was a Japanese novelist, Russian translator and literary critic active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Klaus EbnerAuthor · BooksKlaus Ebner (born 8 August 1964) is an Austrian writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He started submitting stories to magazines in the 1980s, and also publi
Konstanty Ildefons GałczyńskiAuthor · BooksKonstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (23 January 1905 – 6 December 1953), alias Karakuliambro, was a Polish poet.
Lennart HellsingAuthor · BooksPaul Lennart Hellsing (5 June 1919 – 25 November 2015) was a Swedish writer and translator.
Leonard NathanAuthor · BooksLeonard E. Nathan, (November 8 1924 – June 3, 2007) was an American poet, critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he retired in 1991.
Lidia ZamenhofAuthor · BooksLidia Zamenhof (Esperanto: Lidja Zamenhofo; 29 January 1904–1942) was a Jewish Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara Silbernik and L. L.
Linda Maria BarosAuthor · BooksLinda Maria Baros (born 6 August 1981) is a French-language poet, translator and literary critic. She has won the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 2007 and The Poetical Calling Prize in 2004.
Lisa AppignanesiAuthor · BooksLisa Appignanesi (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression.
Lokesh ChandraAuthor · BooksLokesh Chandra (born 11 April 1927 in Ambala, India) is a prominent scholar of the Vedic period, Buddhism and the Indian arts. Between 1942 and 2004, he published 576 books and 286 articles.
Loreta AnilionytėAuthor · BooksLoreta Anilionytė (born in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian philosopher, writer and translator.
Magli ElsterAuthor · BooksMagli Elster (née Raknes; 21 November 1912 – 11 May 1993) was a Norwegian psychoanalyst, literary critic, poet and translator.
Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad TehraniAuthor · BooksIllustration — Tomb of M. Azad
Máire Mhac an tSaoiAuthor · BooksMáire 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 Irish, a memoirist, and a…
Margarita AligerAuthor · BooksMargarita Iosifovna Aliger (Маргари́та Ио́сифовна Алиге́р; née Zeliger; October 7 1915 – August 1, 1992) was a Soviet-Russian poet, translator, and journalist.
Maria Mercè MarçalAuthor · Books
Mark FreidkinAuthor · BooksIllustration — Mark Freidkin
Matej BorAuthor · BooksIllustration — Matej Bor in the 1930s
Mateja MatevskiAuthor · BooksMateja Matevski (Macedonian: Матеја Матевски; 13 March 1929 – 6 June 2018) was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.
Miguel León PortillaAuthor · BooksMiguel León-Portilla (22 February 1926 – 1 October 2019) was a Mexican anthropologist and historian, specializing in Aztec culture and literature of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras.
Milan RúfusAuthor · BooksMilan Rúfus (December 10, 1928 – January 11, 2009) was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.
Milorad PavićAuthor · BooksMilorad Pavić (Милорад Павић; 15 October 1929 – 30 November 2009) was a Serbian writer, university professor, translator, literary historian and academic.

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