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Philippe Di FolcoAuthor · BooksIllustration — Philippe Di Folco
Pierre Antoine DupontAuthor · BooksDivisional-General Pierre-Antoine, comte Dupont de l'Étang (4 July 1765 – 9 March 1840) was a French army officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Pierre BecAuthor · BooksPierre Bec (lang; 11 December 1921 – 30 June 2014) was a French Occitan-language poet and linguist.
Pierre DaruAuthor · BooksPierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte Daru (12 January 1767 – 5 September 1829) was a French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet.
Pierre LarousseAuthor · BooksPierre Larousse was a French lexicographer, linguist, publisher, editor, writer and grammarian (1817–1875). He was born in Toucy and died in Paris.
Pierre-Claude-Victor BoisteAuthor · BooksPierre-Claude-Victor Boiste (1765 – 24 April 1824) was a French lexicographer born in Paris.
Pompeu FabraAuthor · BooksPompeu Fabra i Poch (20 February 1868 – 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer, linguist, and grammarian.
Pomponius PorphyrionAuthor · BooksPomponius Porphyrion (or Porphyrio) was a Latin grammarian and commentator on Horace.
Poul Martin MøllerAuthor · BooksPoul Martin Møller (21 March 1794 – 13 March 1838) was a Danish academic, writer, and poet. During his lifetime, he gained renown in Denmark for his poetry.
Prathivadhi Bhayankaram AnnangaracharyaAuthor · BooksPrathivadhi Bhayankaram Aṇṇā was a Sri Vaishnava acharya, Tamil and Sanskrit scholar, and the composer of the popular Venkateswara Suprabhatam.
Pyotr VyazemskyAuthor · BooksPrince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky (23 July 1792 – 22 November 1878) was a Russian poet and a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry.
Raghunath MurmuAuthor · BooksRaghunath Murmu (5 May 1905 – 1 February 1982) was an Indian writer, educator, and playwright. He developed the Ol Chiki script for the Santali language.
Rallou KaratzaPerson · Film memorabiliaRallou Karatza-Argyropoulos (also rendered as Karatzis, Caradja and Karadja; raˈlu karaˈdza; Ralu Caragea Arghiropol raˈlu karaˈdʒe̯a, commonly Domnița Ralu, "Lady Ralu";
Rami SaariAuthor · BooksRami Saari (born 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.
Rashid al-Din VatvatAuthor · BooksRashid al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Jalil al-Umari (1088/9 – 1182/3), better known by his nickname of Vatvat (وطواط;
Ravindra KelekarAuthor · BooksRavindra Kelekar (7 March 1925 – 27 August 2010) was an Indian author who wrote primarily in the Konkani language, though he also wrote in Marathi and Hindi.
Reiner KunzeAuthor · BooksReiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig.
Richard HowardAuthor · BooksRichard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.
Robert ElsieAuthor · BooksThe Highland Lute (Lahuta e Malcís): The Albanian National Epic.
Robert KerrAuthor · Books
Robèrt LafontAuthor · BooksRobèrt Lafont (March 16, 1923 in Nîmes – June 24, 2009 in Florence) was a French intellectual from Provence.
Robert MajzelsAuthor · BooksRobert Majzels (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
Robert McHenryAuthor · BooksRobert Dale McHenry (born April 30, 1945) is an American editor, encyclopedist, philanthropist and writer. McHenry worked from 1967 for Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.
Robert MorrisonAuthor · BooksRobert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834) was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist,…
Robert van GulikIllustrator · IllustrationRobert Hans van Gulik (9 August 1910 – 24 September 1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the…
Roberto JuarrozAuthor · BooksRoberto Juarroz (5 October 1925 – 31 March 1995) was an Argentine poet famous for his "Poesía vertical" (Vertical poetry).
Roger WillemsenAuthor · BooksRoger Willemsen (15 August 1955 – 7 February 2016) was a German author, essayist and TV presenter.
Roman JakobsonAuthor · BooksRoman Osipovich Jakobson (born Roman Iosel-Berovich Yakobson; 10 October [O.S. 28 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
Ron PadgettAuthor · BooksRon Padgett (born June 17, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School.
Ruan YuanAuthor · Books
Rudolf Erich RaspeAuthor · BooksRudolf Erich Raspe (March 1736 – 16 November 1794) was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, called by his biographer John Patrick Carswell a "rogue".
Sabine HuynhAuthor · BooksSabine Huynh (born 1972) is a Vietnamese-born French writer, poet, translator, and literary critic.
Salvador ElizondoAuthor · BooksSalvador Elizondo Alcalde (December 19, 1932, in Mexico City – March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature.
Samuel ibn NaghrillahAuthor · BooksShemuel ibn Naghrillah (Šəmuʿēl HalLēvi ben Yosēf), mainly known as Shemuel HaNagid and Isma'il ibn Naghrilla (993–1056), was a Jewish statesman, military commander, scholar, linguist and…
Samuel LindeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Samuel Linde
Samuil MarshakAuthor · BooksSamuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (3 November 18874 July 1964) was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and…
Sándor KányádiAuthor · BooksSándor Kányádi (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃaːndor ˈkaːɲaːdi]; 10 May 1929 – 20 June 2018) was a Hungarian poet and translator from the region of Transylvania, Romania.
Sándor Kőrösi CsomaAuthor · BooksKőrösi Csoma Sándor
Sara ColeridgeAuthor · BooksSara Coleridge (23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852) was an English writer and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.
Sarat Chandra DasPhotographer · PhotographySarat Chandra Das (18 July 1849 – 5 January 1917) was an Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture most noted for his two journeys to Tibet in 1879 and in 1881–1882.
Seamus HeaneyAuthor · BooksSeamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Serhiy ZhadanAuthor · BooksSerhiy Viktorovych Zhadan (born 23 August 1974) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, musician, translator, and social activist. He has been a member of the ska band Zhadan i Sobaky since 2008.
Shinobu OrikuchiAuthor · Books11 February 1887–3 September 1953, also known as Chōkū Shaku, was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet.
Sholeh WolpeAuthor · BooksSholeh Wolpé (born 1962 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian and American award-winning poet, author, playwright, librettist, and literary translator.
Sigitas GedaAuthor · BooksSigitas Geda (full name - Sigitas Zigmas Geda; 4 February 1943 – 12 December 2008) was a Lithuanian poet, translator, playwright, essayist, critic and a member of the Lithuanian…
Sigurd AgrellAuthor · BooksIllustration — Sigurd Agrell
Simmias of RhodesAuthor · BooksSimmias of Rhodes was a Greek poet and grammarian of the Alexandrian school, which flourished under the early Ptolemies.
Simon LeysAuthor · BooksPierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian sinologist and translator. He lived in Australia from 1970.
Sinibaldo de Mas y SanzPhotographer · PhotographySinibaldo de Mas i Sans (1809, Barcelona – 1868, Madrid) was a known Spanish diplomat to Asia during the 19th century.
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st BaronetAuthor · BooksIllustration — Richard Fanshawe
Sonja LangAuthor · BooksToki Pona (toki pona, the language of good) is a philosophical and artistic constructed language designed for its small vocabulary, simplicity, and ease of acquisition.
Stanko VrazAuthor · BooksStanko Vraz (baptized Jakob Fraß; 30 June 1810 – 20 May 1851) was a Slovenian-Croatian poet. He Slavicized his name to Stanko Vraz in 1836.
Stefan GeorgeAuthor · BooksStefan Anton George (12 July 18684 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire.
Sugita GenpakuAuthor · Books
Surjit PatarAuthor · BooksSurjit Patar (born Surjit Hunjan; 14 January 1945 – 11 May 2024) was an Indian Punjabi language writer and poet from Punjab.
Susumu ŌnoAuthor · BooksAugust 23, 1919 – July 14, 2008 was a Tokyo-born linguist, specializing in the early history of the Japanese language.
Sylvia DayAuthor · BooksSylvia June Day (born March 11, 1973) is a Japanese American writer. She also writes under the pseudonyms S.J. Day and Livia Dare.
Sylvia Townsend WarnerAuthor · BooksSylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes (1926) and The Corner That Held…
T. CarmiAuthor · Books
Taha HusseinAuthor · BooksTaha Hussein (Ṭāhā Ḥusayn, lang; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab…
Tatsuo HoriAuthor · BooksTatsuo Hori was a Japanese translator and writer of poetry, short stories and novels.
Theodor BergkAuthor · BooksTheodor Bergk (22 May 1812 – 20 July 1881) was a German philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry.
Theodor NöldekeAuthor · BooksTheodor Nöldeke (lang; born 2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German orientalist and scholar, originally a student of Heinrich Ewald.
Therese Albertine Luise RobinsonAuthor · Books(Thérèse Albertine Louise von Jacob, under Napoleonic occupation.)
Thomas BernhardAuthor · BooksNicolaas Thomas Bernhard (lang; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language…
Thomas De QuinceyAuthor · BooksThomas Penson De Quincey (Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English…
Thomas HarriotAuthor · Maps and atlasesThomas Harriot (c. 1560 – 2 July 1621), also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator to whom the theory of refraction is…
Thomas SebeokAuthor · BooksThomas Albert Sebeok (pron; November 9, 1920December 21, 2001) was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist.
Thomas SheridanAuthor · BooksThomas Sheridan (1687 – 10 October 1738) was an Anglican divine, essayist, playwright, poet, schoolmaster and translator. He is chiefly remembered for his friendship with Jonathan Swift.
Thomas William Rhys DavidsAuthor · BooksThomas William Rhys Davids (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was a Welsh scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.
Thor LangeAuthor · BooksThor Næve Lange (9 April 1851 – 22 February 1915) was a Danish author.
Til BrugmanArtist · PaintingsMathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888, Amsterdam – 24 July 1958, Gouda) was a Dutch author, poet, translator, and linguist.
TolkappiyarAuthor · BooksTolkāppiyam, also romanised as Tholkaappiyam (lit. "ancient poem"), is the oldest extant Tamil grammar text and the oldest extant long work of Tamil literature.
Tomás Navarro TomásAuthor · Books
Tormod HaugenAuthor · BooksTormod Haugen (12 May 1945 – 18 October 2008) was a Norwegian writer of children's books and translator.
Toshihiko IzutsuAuthor · Books4 May 1914 – 7 January 1993 was a Japanese scholar who specialized in Islamic studies and comparative religion.
Uładzimir ŽyłkaAuthor · BooksUladzimir Zhylka (27 May 1900, in Makaszy near Nesvizh, Russian Empire – 1 March 1933) was a Belarusian poet.
Umberto BarbaroPerson · Film memorabiliaUmberto Barbaro (3 January 1902, Acireale – 19 March 1959, Rome) was an Italian film critic and essayist.
Uroš ZupanAuthor · BooksUroš Zupan (born 25 August 1963) is a Slovene poet and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry and his poetry has also been translated into German, Polish, Czech,…
Utako YamadaIllustrator · IllustrationUtako Yamada is a Japanese writer, illustrator and translator from Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of 3 official children's books, on which the most notable were The Story of Cherry the Pig…
Václav HankaAuthor · BooksVáclav Hanka (10 June 1791 – 12 January 1861) was a Czech philologist, poet and literary historian.
Valentin VodnikAuthor · BooksValentin Vodnik (3 February 1758 – 8 January 1819) was a Slovene priest, journalist and poet from Carniola. He was active in the late Enlightenment period.
Valeri BraininPerson · Music memorabiliaValeri "Willi" Borisovich Brainin (Valeri "Villi" Borissovich Brainin, Willi Braynin.ru.vorb.oga;
Vangjel MeksiAuthor · BooksVangjel Meksi (1770–1823) was an Albanian medical doctor, writer, and translator. One-time personal physician to Ali Pasha, the 19th-century Albanian ruler of the Pashalik of Yanina, Meksi…
Veijo MeriAuthor · BooksVeijo Väinö Valvo Meri (31 December 1928 – 21 June 2015) was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity.
Víctor Rodríguez NúñezAuthor · BooksVíctor Rodríguez Núñez (born in Havana, 1955) is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.
Victoria, Lady WelbyArtist · PaintingsVictoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist.
Villem Grünthal-RidalaAuthor · BooksVillem Grünthal-Ridala, born Wilhelm Grünthal (30 May 1885 in Kuivastu, Muhu, Kreis Ösel, Governorate of Livonia – 16 January 1942 in Helsinki, Finland) was an Estonian poet, translator,…
Vítězslav NezvalAuthor · BooksVítězslav Nezval (26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) was a Czech poet, writer and translator.
Vladimir BeekmanAuthor · BooksVladimir Beekman (23 August 1929 – 3 October 2009) was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.
Vladimir BogorazAuthor · BooksVladimir Germanovich Bogoraz (Russian: Влади́мир Ге́рманович Богора́з), born Natan Mendelevich Bogoraz (Russian: Ната́н Ме́нделевич Богора́з) and used the literary pseudonym N. A.
Vladimir DalAuthor · Books
Vladimir ProppAuthor · BooksVladimir Yakovlevich Propp (29 April 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify…
Volodymyr HnatiukAuthor · BooksVolodymyr Mykhailovych Hnatiuk (9 May 1871 – 6 October 1926) was a writer, literary scholar, translator, journalist, and one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.
Vyacheslav IvanovAuthor · BooksVyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist…
Vyvyan HollandAuthor · BooksVyvyan Beresford Holland, (born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator.
Waheed QureshiAuthor · BooksWaheed Qureshi (Urdu: وحید قریشی) (14 February 1925 – 17 October 2009) was a Pakistani linguist, literary critic, writer, researcher, educationalist and scholar of Urdu literature and…
Walter ScottAuthor · BooksSir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature.
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel BleekPhotographer · PhotographyWilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist who lived in the Cape Colony (modern-day South Africa) and developed a particular interest for the…
Wilhelm SchererAuthor · BooksWilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature.
Wilhelm von HumboldtAuthor · BooksFriedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt…
Willard FiskeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Willard Fiske
William Edmondstoune AytounAuthor · BooksProfessor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University (1845–65)
William James SidisAuthor · BooksWilliam James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with mathematical and linguistic skills. He was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author.
William JonesAuthor · BooksWilliam Jones was a British and English anthropologist, linguist, judge, translator, poet and writer (1746–1794). He was born in Westminster and died in Kolkata.
William SmithAuthor · BooksSir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Greek and Latin in schools.
William TyndaleAuthor · BooksWilliam Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – October 1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant…
William Williams PantycelynAuthor · Books
Władysław SyrokomlaAuthor · BooksLudwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz (29 September 1823 – 15 September 1862), better known as Władysław Syrokomla (Vladislovas Sirokomlė), was a Polish–Lithuanian poet, writer and…
Yakiv HolovatskyAuthor · BooksYakiv Holovatsky (Yakov Golovatsky; 17 October 1814 – 13 May 1888) was a Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, poet and leader of…
Yakov KnyazhninAuthor · BooksYakov Borisovich Knyazhnin (November 3, 1742 or 1740, Pskov – January 1, 1791, St. Petersburg) was a Russian writer.
Yasmina RezaPerson · Film memorabiliaYasmina Reza (lang; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and God of Carnage.
Yekaterina DashkovaAuthor · BooksPrincess Yekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (born Countess Vorontsova; 28 March 1743 – 15 January 1810)Though her memoirs list her birth date as 1744, they are footnoted as a "slip of the pen".
Yone NoguchiAuthor · Books
Yuriy FedkovychAuthor · BooksOsyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.
Zaal SamadashviliAuthor · BooksZaal Samadashvili (ზაალ სამადაშვილი; 3 October 1953 – 1 November 2024) was a Georgian writer.
Zbyněk HejdaAuthor · BooksZbyněk Hejda (2 February 1930, Hradec Králové – 16 November 2013, Prague) was a Czech poet, essayist and translator (mainly from English - Emily Dickinson;
Zenobia CamprubíAuthor · BooksZenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
Zhao JingshenAuthor · BooksZhao Jingshen (1902–1985) was a popular Chinese novelist. He taught at Fudan University in Shanghai.
ZiryabAuthor · BooksAbu al-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi' (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي ابن نافع, زریاب; c. 857), commonly known as Ziryab, was a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teacher.

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