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Ethel Irene Kabwato
(Zimbabwe, 1970)
Ethel Irene Kabwato is a mother, teacher and writer. In 2004-05, she participated in …
Hédi Kaddour
(Tunisia, 1945)
Hédi Kaddour (Tunis, 1945) is one of the French writers currently designated as …
Jayant Kaikini
(India, 1955)
Jayant Kaikini is regarded as one of the most significant of the younger writers in …
Wakako Kaku
(Japan)
To many Japanese people, Wakako Kaku is known as a lyricist for famous pop singers and …
Ronelda Kamfer
(South Africa, 1981)
Ronelda S Kamfer has entered Afrikaans literature like a Guy Fawkes’ rocket at …
Ilya Kaminsky
(Ukraine, 1977)
Poet Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union city of Odessa. He lost most of …
Kamlesh
(India, 1937)
Kamlesh (born 1937) is a senior Hindi poet and translator. He writes prolifically but …
Manju Kanchuli
(Nepal, 1951)
Born the youngest daughter of the Nepali dramatist, Bhim Niddhi Tiwari, Manju Kanchuli …
Meena Kandasamy
(India, 1984)
Meena Kandasamy is a young Chennai-based poet, fiction writer and translator. Her first …
Mitsuharu Kaneko
(Japan, 1895–1975)
Mitsuharu Kaneko (1895–1975), one of the most prominent poets of …
Péter Kántor
(Hungary, 1949)
Liat Kaplan
(Israel, 1956)
Liat Kaplan, born on a kibbutz and today a resident of Tel Aviv, is a poet, creative …
Jaan Kaplinski
(Estonia, 1949)
Jaan Kaplinski was born in the Estonian university city of Tartu in 1941. His mother …
Yonadav Kaploun
(Australia, 1963)
Yonadav Kaploun was born in Melbourne and moved to Israel as a child with his parents, …
Katia Kapovich
(Moldova, 1960)
Katia Kapovich (1960) is a bilingual Russian poet. Born in Chişinău, the capital of …
Angshuman Kar
(India, 1975)
Angshuman Kar is the author of nine collections of poems, two novels, two novellas …
Nikos Karouzos
(Greece, 1926–1990)
Nikos Karouzos was born in Nafplion in 1926 and died in Athens in 1990. He is …
Mary Karr
(United States, 1955)
Poet and memoirist Mary Karr was born in 1955 and raised in Texas. The author of …
Mari Kashiwagi
(Germany, 1970)
Mari Kashiwagi was born in Erlangen, Germany, where her father was teaching as an …
Laura Kasischke
(USA, 1961)
Poet and novelist Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the …
Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
(Philippines, 1980)
Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (1980) is the author of four books, including two collections …
Anne Kawala
(France, 1980)
In the work of Anne Kawala, the performative dimension is key. The written version of …
Hiroshi Kawasaki
(Japan, 1930–2004)
Born in Tokyo, Hiroshi Kawasaki published countless numbers of poems, essays, stories, …
Jackie Kay
(United Kingdom, 1962)
Jackie Kay is a poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and …
István Kemény
(Hungary, 1961)
István Kemény entered university to study law, but switched to Hungarian literature and …
Luke Kennard
(United Kingdom, 1981)
In 2007 Luke Kennard became the youngest ever poet to be shortlisted for the Forward …
Brendan Kennelly
(Ireland, 1936)
Brendan Kennelly is a celebrated figure among his own countrymen, almost as much so as …
Bakhyt Kenzjejev
(Kazakhstan, 1950)
Bakhyt Shkurullaevich Kenzjejev (also spelled Kenjeev) was born on 2 August 1950 in …
Sachin Ketkar
(India, 1972)
Sachin Ketkar was selected by Marathi poet Hemant Divate for the November 2008 …
Keorapetse Kgositsile
(South Africa, 1938)
Born in 1938, Keorapetse ‘Willie’ Kgositsile left South Africa in 1961 as one of the …
Tabish Khair
(India, 1966)
Tabish Khair (born 1966) is a poet, novelist and essayist. His significant poetry …
Mimi Khalvati
(Iran, 1944)
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, but grew up in England, and has made London her …
Shamshad Khan
(United Kingdom, 1964)
Shamshad Khan was conceived in Karachi and born in Britain. Her published works include …
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
(Lebanon, 1937)
Vénus Khoury-Ghata was born in the Lebanese mountain village of Bsherre, also the …
Kim Hyesoon
(South Korea)
Kim Hyesoon is one of the most important contemporary poets of South Korea. She lives …
David Kinloch
(United Kingdom, 1959)
David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959 and educated at Glasgow and Oxford …
John Kinsella
(Australia, 1963)
There is little doubt that John Kinsella’s vibrant poetic intellect stakes out an …
Esther Kinsky
(Germany, 1956)
Esther Kinsky was born in Engelskirchen. A year after her birth, however, her family …
Giriraj Kiradoo
(India, 1975)
Giriraj Kiradoo (born 1975) has published poems, criticism, translations and short …
Miroslav Kirin
(Croatia, 1965)
Miroslav Kirin’s poetry of the powerful, immediate moment bears the imprint of both …
Karin Kiwus
(Germany, 1942)
August Kleinzahler
(USA, 1949)
Thomas Kling
(Germany, 1957–2005)
Thomas Kling, unquestionably one of the most important German-language poets of the …
Hester Knibbe
(Netherlands, 1946)
Een dunne duurzaamheid (A thin permanence) is the title of one of Hester …
Edvard Kocbek
(Slovenia, 1904–1981)
Edvard Kocbek is a great unknown East European poet. Although born in 1904, he …
Frank Koenegracht
(The Netherlands, 1945)
Frank Koenegracht is one of the best, albeit not yet best-known, poets of the Dutch …
John Koethe
(USA, 1945)
The author of several collections of poetry, including North Point North: New and …
Barbara Köhler
(Germany, 1959)
Barbara Köhler is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential poets of …
Masayo Koike
(Japan, 1959)
Masayo Koike is a poet who treasures words. From an early age she was attracted to the …
Ingrid de Kok
(South Africa, 1951)
Uwe Kolbe
(Germany, 1957)
Uwe Kolbe is from Prenzlauer Berg, the GDR-Bohemian quarter of literature, rock-music, …
antoine de kom
(Netherlands, 1956)
antoine de kom was born in The Hague in 1956 but spent his formative years in …
Claudiu Komartin
(Romania, 1983)
Claudiu Komartin was born in Bucharest. His first book, Păpușarul și alte …
Gerrit Komrij
(The Netherlands, 1944–2012)
Gerrit Komrij was a lone figure in Dutch poetry at the time of the appearance of his …
Yusef Komunyakaa
(USA, 1947)
Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1947, Yusef Komunyakaa grew up during the Civil Rights …
Rutger Kopland
(The Netherlands, 1934–2012)
Rutger Kopland is convinced that scientific research is fundamentally no different to …
Barbara Korun
(Slovenia, 1963)
Barbara Korun, born in 1963 in Ljubljana, is a leading figure in the generation of …
Admiel Kosman
(Israel, 1957)
Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa to an observant Orthodox Jewish family. His …
Srečko Kosovel
(Slovenia, 1904)
Srečko Kosovel is the Slovenian Rimbaud, the strongest and the strangest poetical …
Uroš Kotlajić
(Serbia, 1982)
Uroš Kotlajic (1982) schreef over Belgrado, waar hij opgroeide en nog …
Gerrit Kouwenaar
(The Netherlands, 1923–2014)
Gerrit Kouwenaar was first published in clandestine publications during World War II. …
Mustafa Köz
(Turkey, 1959)
Mustafa Köz draws the political landscape of the Turkish peninsula while …
Rustum Kozain
(South Africa, 1966)
Rustum Kozain was born, raised and schooled in Paarl, Western Cape and studied English …
Urszula Koziol
(Poland, 1931)
Urszula Koziol was born in southeast Poland and has lived and worked in Wroclaw since …
Taja Kramberger
(Slovenia, 1970)
Taja Kramberger is a poet, historical anthropologist, essayist and translator. She is …
Marc Kregting
(The Netherlands, 1965)
On his blog, Marc Kregting, born in Breda in 1965, introduces himself as follows: …
Gerður Kristný
(Iceland, 1970)
Gerður Kristný (Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir) …
Antjie Krog
(South Africa, 1952)
Antjie Krog was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm in the Kroonstad District of the …
Gerrit Krol
(The Netherlands, 1934–2013)
Gerrit Krol studied mathematics. He worked as a computer programmer for Shell Oil and …
Halyna Krouk
(Ukraine, 1974)
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, Halyna Krouk is a poet, writer of fiction and a researcher in …
Michael Krüger
(, 1943)
Hasso Krull
(Estonia, 1964)
Hasso Krull is one of the most important writers and thinkers to emerge from Estonia …
Elmar Kuiper
(The Netherlands, 1969)
Elmar Kuiper, born in Sneek, lives and works in the small Friesian village of Huins. He …
Endre Kukorelly
(Hungary, 1951)
Endre Kukorelly was born and raised in Budapest, where he worked as a librarian for the …
Nitin Kulkarni
(India, 1970)
Nitin Kulkarni is an architect by profession. A graduate of BKPS College of …
Nilim Kumar
(India, 1961)
Nilim Kumar is the author of seventeen volumes of poetry and three novels in …
Monika Kumar
(India, 1977)
Monika Kumar is a Hindi poet of growing acclaim. Her poetry has been published in …
Mazisi Kunene
(South Africa, 1930–2006)
The heritage of Kunene, this great spokesman,is without a doubt indispensable to …
Zaffar Kunial
(United Kingdom, 1975)
Zaffar Kunial is a Hebden Bridge-based poet whose impact on the UK scene belies a small …
Shinjiro Kurahara
(Japan, 1899–1965)
Shinjiro Kurahara was an artist of multiple genres – he sketched, wrote short …
Meta Kušar
(Slovenia, 1952)
Meta Kušar was born in Ljubljana in 1952. She is a poet and essayist.
Kiji Kutani
(Japan, 1984)
Every country has its own breed of precocious poet, those who make their debuts in …
 

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