Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic. His works are considered the finest lyric poetry of ancient Rome, and significantly influenced Ovid and Virgil. He wrote in the neoteric style about his personal life and a woman called Lesbia, turning away from classical epic poetry.
José Saramago was a Portuguese writer, awarded with 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works commonly present fantastic and subversive perspectives. Due to the political censorship of his work, Saramago went into exile on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, where he lived until his death in 2010.
Paul Valéry was a French poet, critic and philosopher, also interested in art, politics, science, history and music.
Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet and writer. He contributed to modern poetry by using the French concept of pure poetry. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a French poet and novelist, and one of the founders of French romantic poetry. She is the only female writer included in the famous Les Poètes maudits.
Boris Pasternak was a Russian poet and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest post-revolutionary poets. His novel Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the Soviet Union and secretly published in Europe, winning the Nobel Prize that he was forced to decline in 1958. His descendants accepted it in his name in …
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