Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
William Tyndale

William Tyndale

male, deceased (1536)
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (ca. 1494-September 6, 1536) was a 16th century Protestant reformer and scholar who...
Paul Auster

Paul Auster

male, 62 years old
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947, Newark, New Jersey) is a Brooklyn-based author. He is probably most famous for his collection, The New...
Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

male, deceased (1867)
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was an influential nineteenth century French poet. He was also a critic and translator.
Coleman Barks

Coleman Barks

male (Nobleboro, Maine, United States)
Coleman Barks (b. 1937) is an American poet and world-renowned translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia.
Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles

male, 76 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Robert Fagles (born September 11, 1933) is an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek...
Paul Celan

Paul Celan

male, deceased (1970)
Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. Celan is widely considered...
Lu Xun

Lu Xun

female, deceased (1936)
Lu Xun or Lu Hsün, pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. C...
John Dryden

John Dryden

male, deceased (1700)
John Dryden (August 19 {August 9 O.S.1631 – May 12 {May 1 O.S.}, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and pl...
Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak

male, 81 years old
Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak, Arabic: محمد حسنى سيد مبارك Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak, commonly known as Hosni Mubarak, Arabic: حسنى مبارك Ḥusnī Mubār...