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Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973)
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
André Breton
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet (1898–1984)
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)
Paul Éluard
French poet (1895–1952)
Antonin Artaud
French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)
Jean Arp
Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954–2013)
Daniil Kharms
Russian writer (1905–1942)
Aimé Césaire
Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)
Robert Desnos
French writer
Philippe Soupault
French writer (1897–1990)
Gennadiy Aygi
Chuvash poet, writer, and translator (1934-2006)
Olga Orozco
Argentine writer (1920-1999)
Michel Leiris
French surrealist writer and ethnographer (1901–1990)
Tomaž Šalamun
Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia
František Halas
Czech politician, poet and writer (1901-1949)
Benjamin Péret
French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism (1899–1959)
Benjamin Fondane
Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)
Karel Teige
Czech photographer, literature reviewer, literary theorist, translator, typographer and science writer (1900–1951)
Joyce Mansour
Egyptian-French author, notable as a surrealist poet (1928–1986)
Roland Penrose
British artist and art historian (1900-1984)
Konstantin Biebl
Czech poet (1898–1951)
Louis Scutenaire
Belgian poet (1905-1987)
Nikos Engonopoulos
Greek artist (1907-1985)
Philip Lamantia
American poet, lecturer (1927–2005)
Andreas Embirikos
Greek poet (1901–1975)
Murilo Mendes
Brazilian writer (1901–1975)
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Russian/Irish novelist, poet, literary translator and magazine editor
Juan Larrea
Spanish poet (1895-1980)
Joseph Delteil
French poet (1894–1978)
Valentine Penrose
French writer and artist (1898–1978)
Kansuke Yamamoto
Japanese avant-garde poet-photographer, editor and publisher (1914–1987)
James Tate
American poet (1943–2015)
Gisèle Prassinos
French artist (1920–2015)
Paul Nougé
Belgian writer (1895–1967)
Andrei Codrescu
American writer
Edip Cansever
Turkish poet (1928–1986)
Ilarie Voronca
French writer (1903–1946)
César Moro
Peruvian artist and poet (1903-1956)
Annie Le Brun
French poet (1942 - 2024)
Ángel Crespo
Spanish poet (1926–1995)
Ciro Pessoa
Brazilian singer (1957–2020)
José María Hinojosa
Spanish poet, editor and lawyer (1904-1936)
Jana Černá
Czech writer and poet (1928–1981)
Vratislav Effenberger
Czech poet, literary theorist and writer (1923–1986)
Nikolas Calas
Greek poet (1907-1988)
David Gascoyne
English Surrealist poet (1916-2001)
Joseph Noiret
Poet and painter (1927-2012)
Jean Venturini
French poet and sailor (1919–1940)
Jack Dann
American writer
Gilbert Lely
French poet (1904–1985)
Mary Low
British poet
John Yau
American poet (born 1950)
Jalal Khoury
Lebanese playwright
Marcel Lecomte
Belgian poet (1900–1966)
António Maria Lisboa
Portuguese surrealist poet
Eva Švankmajerová
Czech artist, poet and writer (1940–2005)