French-language poets

Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)

Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)

Dutch French-language writer and composer (1740-1805)

Greek writer (1856–1910)

British poet who wrote in French

French writer (1884–1960)

Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. (1901–1937)

Lebanese playwright and poet (1905–1989)

Algerian francophone writer, poet and journalist (1906–1962)

Greek academic (1935–2021)

French writer, poet, salonnière (1638–1694)

American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language (1863-1915)

poet (born 1942)

French noblewoman

Belgian writer (1806–1874)

type of poet songwriter in France and Quebec, Canada

writer, poet

Peruvian artist and poet (1903-1956)

French poet (1861–1933)

French poet

Beninese writer

poet, writer and Lebanese diplomat (1929–2020)

Tunisian poet, writer and translator

Ivorian writer (1950–2003)

thumb|Image of Mahmoudan Hawad Hawad, sometimes Mahmoudan Hawad, (born 1950) is a Tuareg poet and author born in the Aïr region of Niger and who currently lives and publishes from Aix-en-Provence, France. Hawad deploys a method he calls furigraphy (a play on the word calligraphy) to create space in his poetry and to illuminate certain themes. Common themes of his work include thirst, movement, wandering, anarchy, and political themes related to Tuareg politics in the region. He is married to Hélène Claudot-Hawad, a Tuareg scholar and translator of Hawad's poetry into French. He has published a

DRC poet and writer

Dutch poet and writer (1832–1890)

Lebanese playwright

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French poet

Lebanese-French poet

Cameroonian poet

French poet from La Réunion (1930-2019)