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Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Lennart Meri
Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
Serhiy Zhadan
Ukrainian poet
John Stewart Bell
Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)
Musa Cälil
Soviet poet
Maksim Bahdanovič
Belarusian writer (1891–1917)
Leszek Engelking
Polish writer and translator (1955-2022)
Andreu Nin
Spanish politician (1892-1937)
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Soviet politician (1892-1940)
Olena Pchilka
Ukrainian academic (1849–1930)
Ihor Pavlyuk
Ukrainian writer
František Čelakovský
Czech poet, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, professor, publicist, translator, writer, university educator and science writer (1799–1852)
Laza Lazarević
Serbian writer (1851–1891)
Stanley Kunitz
American poet (1905-2006)
Yuri Rytkheu
Russian Chukchi writer (1930-2008)
Hamida Javanshir
Azerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist (1873-1955)
Gʻafur Gʻulom
Uzbekistani writer (1903–1966)
Nathan Alterman
Israeli poet (1910–1970)
Stijn Streuvels
Belgian writer (1871–1969)
Choʻlpon
Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov (, 1893 – 4 October 1938), most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon (sometimes spelled Cholpán in English), was an Uzbek poet, playwright, novelist, and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first person to translate William Shakespeare's plays into the Uzbek language.
Mirdza Ķempe
Latvian poet (1907–1974)
Abdulla Qodiriy
Uzbek and Soviet poet, literary translator, and writer (1894–1938)
Abdulla Qahhor
Uzbek author (1907-1968)
Bhisham Sahni
Indian writer, playwright, and actor (1915-2003)
Hamid Olimjon
writer, poet (1909–1944)
Alfred Jensen
Swedish historian, slavist, writer, poet, and translator (1859-1921)
Abdulla Oripov
Uzbekistani poet
Avraham Shlonsky
Israeli poet, translator and editor (1900-1973)
Suleyman Rustam
Azerbaijani Soviet poet (1906-1989)
Byambyn Rinchen
Mongolian academic (1905-1977)
Jerzy Ficowski
Polish writer and translator (1924–2006)
Erkin Vohidov
Uzbek poet, translator and statesman
Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova
Ukrainian writer and translator of Esperanto
Ojārs Vācietis
Latvian writer (1933–1983)
Hamlet Isakhanli
Azerbaijani mathematician
Panas Saksahansky
Ukrainian theatre actor, playwright and translator (1859–1940)
Agop Melkonyan
Bulgarian writer and journalist (1949-2006)
Rajendra Yadav
Indian writer (1929-2013)
D. M. Thomas
British writer (1935–2023)
Todur Zanet
Gagauz and Moldovan journalist, folklorist and poet
Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Austrian writer and translator (1883–1951)
Yoshiko Yuasa
Japanese translator
Dmytro Kremin
Ukrainian poet
Dora Montefiore
suffragette, socialist, writer (1851–1933)
Shalva Nutsubidze
Georgian philosopher (1888–1969)
Véronique Schiltz
French archaeologist and art historian (1942–2019)
Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi
Iranian writer and politician
Khurshid Davron
Soviet writer and poet
Gegham Saryan
Armenian poet and translator
Oʻtkir Hoshimov
Uzbek writer
Vladimir Gagloyev
Ossetian writer (1928–1996)
Ly Seppel
Estonian poet and translator (born 1943)
Xösäyen Yamaşef
Tatar Bolshevik (1882-1912)
Bora Chung
South Korean writer
Luboš Dobrovský
Czech diplomat, publicist and translator
Ludwig Rubiner
German translator and writer (1881–1920)
Olga Sergeyevna Lebedeva
Russian orientalist
Manjari Joshi
Indian author, journalist and translator
Juhani Konkka
Finnish politician and journalist (1904-1970)
Maksim Łužanin
Soviet playwright, translator and writer (1909–2001)