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Isaac Babel
Literature & Poetry
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Isaac Babel

Исаак Эммануилович Бабель
🇺🇦 Russian Empire
1894 – 1940 (45 years old)

Peerless Russian-Jewish master of the short story whose Red Cavalry and Odessa Tales brought vivid brutality and poetic lyricism to world literature.

Moscow, Russia
William Butler Yeats
Literature & Poetry
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
🇮🇪 Ireland
13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 (73 years old)

Supreme Irish lyric poet and 1923 Nobel laureate who spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival, co-founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory, and chronicled the turbulent birth of modern Ireland in Easter, 1916 and The Second Coming.

Menton (French Riviera), France
Osip Mandelstam
Literature & Poetry
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Osip Mandelstam

Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам
🇵🇱 Russian Empire
1891 – 1938 (47 years old)

Foremost Russian Acmeist poet and martyr whose collections Stone and Tristia, and fatal 'Stalin Epigram', made him an eternal symbol of artistic integrity.

Vladivostok, Russia
Alfonsina Storni
Literature & Poetry
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Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni
🇦🇷 Switzerland (moved as child to Argentina)
1892 – 1938 (46 years old)

Argentine modernist and avant-garde poet whose daring feminist verses confronted patriarchal hypocrisy and celebrated female sexual, intellectual, and economic autonomy.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sir Muhammad Iqbal
Literature & Poetry
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal

علامہ محمد اقبال (Mufakkir-e-Pakistan)
🇵🇰 British Raj
1877 – 1938 (60 years old)

Renowned philosopher, barrister, and poet (1877–1938), revered as 'Allama Iqbal' and 'The Poet of the East', whose visionary poetry in Persian and Urdu inspired selfhood (Khudi) and the Pakistan Movement.

Lahore (Punjab), Pakistan
Cesar Vallejo
Literature & Poetry
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Cesar Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza
🇵🇪 Peru
1892 – 1938 (46 years old)

Peruvian poet and writer widely considered one of the greatest poetic innovators of the twentieth century, author of the revolutionary avant-garde collection Trilce.

Paris, France
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Literature & Poetry
1
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
🇮🇳 British India
1876 – 1938 (61 years old)

Bengali novelist and short story writer whose works, including Devdas, Pather Dabi, and Charitraheen, made him the most widely translated and popular Indian fiction writer of the twentieth century.

Kolkata, India
Horacio Quiroga
Literature & Poetry
1
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Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza
🇺🇾 Uruguay
1878 – 1937 (58 years old)

Uruguayan-Argentine short story writer regarded as the master of the Latin American gothic tale, whose Stories of Love, Madness and Death captured the lethal perils of the Misiones jungle.

Salto, Uruguay
Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)
Literature & Poetry
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Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

魯迅 (周樹人)
🇨🇳 China
25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936 (55 years old)

Revered as the foundational father of modern Chinese literature whose revolutionary vernacular stories A Madman's Diary (1918) and The True Story of Ah Q spearheaded the May Fourth cultural revolution, fiercely attacking feudal hypocrisy.

Shanghai, China
Munshi Premchand
Literature & Poetry
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Munshi Premchand

मुंशी प्रेमचंद (Dhanpat Rai Srivastava)
🇮🇳 British Raj
1880 – 1936 (56 years old)

Foremost pioneer of modern realist Hindi and Urdu literature (1880–1936), honored as 'Upanyas Samrat' (Emperor of Novels), who wrote 'Godaan', 'Kafan', and hundreds of stories exposing social injustice and rural poverty.

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), India
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Literature & Poetry
11
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa
🇵🇹 Portugal
13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935 (47 years old)

Enigmatic Portuguese modernist genius who fractured his identity into over seventy distinct literary alter-egos ('heteronyms'—Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares) and authored the sublime existential diary The Book of Disquiet.

Lisbon, Portugal
Abou el Kacem Chebbi
Literature & Poetry
3
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Abou el Kacem Chebbi

أبو القاسم الشابي
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1909 – 1934 (25 years old)

Immortal national poet of Tunisia whose fiery romantic and revolutionary verses in 'The Will of Life' (Iradat al-Hayat) and 'To the Tyrants of the World' inspired generations of Arab anti-colonial struggles and the 2011 Arab Spring.

Tozeur, Tunisia
Kenji Miyazawa
Literature & Poetry
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Kenji Miyazawa

宮沢賢治
🇯🇵 Meiji Japan
1896 – 1933 (37 years old)

Beloved Japanese poet, children's author, and agronomist (1896–1933) whose magical realist masterpiece 'Night on the Galactic Railroad' and selfless poem 'Be Not Defeated by the Rain' (Ame ni mo Makezu) are cultural treasures.

Hanamaki (Iwate), Japan
Ahmed Shawqi
Literature & Poetry
3
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Ahmed Shawqi

أحمد شوقي
🇪🇬 Khedivate of Egypt
1868 – 1932 (63 years old)

Egyptian literary titan crowned by delegations from across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets) in 1927, who revived classical Arabic poetic eloquence and pioneered verse drama.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt
Ahmad Shawqi
Literature & Poetry
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Ahmad Shawqi

أحمد شوقي (أمير الشعراء)
🇪🇬 Egypt
16 October 1868 – 14 October 1932 (63 years old)

Venerated across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets), who spearheaded the neoclassical Arabic literary renaissance (Al-Nahda) and pioneered Arabic poetic drama in Cleopatra and Majnun Layla.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt
Hafez Ibrahim
Literature & Poetry
3
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Hafez Ibrahim

حافظ إبراهيم
🇪🇬 Khedivate of Egypt
1872 – 1932 (60 years old)

Beloved Egyptian national poet known as 'The Poet of the Nile', whose resonant verses championed the Egyptian peasant, celebrated the Arabic language, and mourned the victims of the Denshawai massacre.

Cairo, Egypt
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Literature & Poetry
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Gibran Khalil Gibran

جبران خليل جبران
🇱🇧 Lebanon
6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931 (48 years old)

Lebanese-American mystic poet and artist whose prose-poetry masterwork The Prophet (1923)—translated into over one hundred languages—ranks as the third best-selling poet in history after Shakespeare and Laozi.

New York City, United States
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