National Poets

List of national poets of over 200 countries in alphabetical order.

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  Afghanistan
  Khushal Khattak
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  Åland Islands
  Not Declared
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  Albania
  Naim Frasheri
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  Algeria
  Moufdi Zakaria
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  American Samoa
  Not Declared
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  Andorra
  Albert Salvadó
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  Angola
  Agostinho Neto
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  Anguilla
  Not Declared
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  Antigua and Barbuda
  Not Declared
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  Argentina
  José Hernández
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  Armenia
  Hovhannes Tumanyan
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  Australia
  Adam Lindsay Gordon
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  Austria
  Franz Grillparzer, Peter Rosegger, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
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  Azerbaijan
  Nizami Ganjavi
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  Bahamas
  Marion Bethel
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  Bahrain
  Ali al-Sharqawi
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  Bangladesh
  Kazi Nazrul Islam
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  Barbados
  Edward Kamau Brathwaite
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  Belarus
  Adam Mickiewicz
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  Belgium
  Emile Verhaeren
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  Belize
  Not Declared
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  Benin
  Not Declared
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  Bermuda
  Thomas Moore
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  Bhutan
  Not Declared
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  Bolivia
  Luciano Durán Böger
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  Bonaire
  Not Declared
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  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Izet Sarajlić
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  Botswana
  Not Declared
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  Brazil
  Gonçalves Dias, Olavo Bilac, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Machado de Assis
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  British Indian Ocean Territory
  Not Declared
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  British Virgin Islands
  Not Declared
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  Brunei
  Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddin
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  Bulgaria
  Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov
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  Burkina Faso
  Not Declared
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  Burundi
  Not Declared
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  Cambodia
  Preah Botumthera Som, Krom Ngoy, Chuon Nath
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  Cameroon
  Not Declared
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  Canada
  Pauline Johnson, Émile Nelligan, Octave Crémazie, John McCrae, Margaret Atwood
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  Cape Verde
  Not Declared
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  Cayman Islands
  Not Declared
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  Central African Republic
  Not Declared
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  Chad
  Not Declared
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  Chile
  Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral
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  China
  Du Fu, Li Bai, Lu Xun
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  Christmas Island
  Not Declared
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  Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Not Declared
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  Colombia
  Rafael Pombo, José Asunción Silva
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  Comoros
  Not Declared
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  Republic of Congo
  Not Declared
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  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Not Declared
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  Cook Islands
  Not Declared
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  Costa Rica
  Aquileo J. Echeverría, Carmen Lyra
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  Croatia
  Marko Marulić, Miroslav Krleža
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  Cuba
  José Martí, Lezama Lima, Nicolás Guillén
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  Curaçao
  Frank Martinus Arion
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  Cyprus
  Vasilis Michaelides
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  Czech Republic
  Karel Hynek Mácha, Božena Němcová, Jan Neruda
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  Dagestan
  Rasul Gamzatov
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  Denmark
  Adam Oehlenschläger, Søren Kierkegaard
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  Djibouti
  Not Declared
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  Dominica
  Not Declared
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  Dominican Republic
  Pedro Mir
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  East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  Not Declared
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  Ecuador
  José Joaquín de Olmedo, Jorge Enrique Adoum
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  Egypt
  Ahmed Shawqi
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  El Salvador
  Roque Antonio Dalton García
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  England
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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  Equatorial Guinea
  Not Declared
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  Eritrea
  Not Declared
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  Estonia
  Lydia Koidula, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
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  Eswatini (Swaziland)
  Nontobeko 'Ntobie' Ndzabukelwako
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  Ethiopia
  Gibreab Teferi, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
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  Faroe Islands
  Nólsoyar Páll
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  Fiji
  Not Declared
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  Finland
  Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Elias Lönnrot
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  Flanders
  Emile Verhaeren
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  France
  Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
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  French Guiana
  Not Declared
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  French Polynesia
  Not Declared
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  Gabon
  Not Declared
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  The Gambia
  Not Declared
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  Georgia
  Shota Rustaveli
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  Germany
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller
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  Ghana
  Atukwei John Okai
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  Gibraltar
  Not Declared
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  Greece
  Homer, Dionysios Solomos
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  Greenland
  Not Declared
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  Grenada
  Not Declared
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  Guam
  Not Declared
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  Guatemala
  Rafael Landívar
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  Guernsey
  Not Declared
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  Guinea
  Not Declared
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  Guinea-Bissau
  Not Declared
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  Guyana
  Not Declared
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  Haiti
  Jacques Roumain
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  Honduras
  Not Declared
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  Hong Kong
  Not Declared
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  Hungary
  Sándor Petőfi, János Arany
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  Iceland
  Jónas Hallgrímsson, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Halldór Laxness
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  India
  Valmiki, Jhaverchand Meghani,Vedavyasa, Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore
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  Indonesia
  Chairil Anwar
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  Iran
  Simin Behbahani, Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez, Attar, Abu Sa'eed, Sanai, Rudaki, Nezami Ganjavi, Saadi, Omar Khayyám
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  Iraq
  Maarouf Al Rasafi
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  Ireland
  Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney
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  Isle of Man
  Thomas Edward Brown
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  Italy
  Dante Alighieri, Giosuè Carducci, Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Gabriele D'Annunzio
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  Côte d’Ivoire
  Not Declared
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  Jamaica
  Claude McKay
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  Japan
  Koizumi Yakumo, Murasaki Shikibu, Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, Ishikawa Takuboku, Tanikawa Shuntaro
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  Jersey
  Not Declared
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  Jordan
  Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal
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  Kazakhstan
  Abai Qunanbaiuly
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  Kenya
  Not Declared
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  Kiribati
  Teresia Teaiwa
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  North Korea
  Cho Ki-chon
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  South Korea
  Yun Dongju, Han Yong-un, Park Mok-wol, Jeong Cheol
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  Kosovo
  Din Mehmeti, Ali Podrimja
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  Kuwait
  Not Declared
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  Kyrgyzstan
  Toktogul Satylganov
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  Laos
  Not Declared
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  Latvia
  Not Declared
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  Lebanon
  Kahlil Gibran, Said Akl
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  Lesotho
  Not Declared
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  Liberia
  Not Declared
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  Libya
  Not Declared
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  Liechtenstein
  Peter Kaiser
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  Lithuania
  Kristijonas Donelaitis, Maironis
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  Luxembourg
  Edmond de la Fontaine, Michel Rodange, and Michel Lentz
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  Macau
  Not Declared
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  North Macedonia
  Kočo Racin, Georgi Pulevski and Kole Nedelkovski
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  Madagascar
  Jean Verdi Salomon Razakandrainy
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  Malawi
  Not Declared
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  Malaysia
  Usman Awang
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  Maldives
  Not Declared
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  Mali
  Fily Dabo Sissoko
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  Malta
  Dun Karm Psaila
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  Marshall Islands
  Not Declared
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  Mauritania
  Not Declared
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  Mauritius
  Not Declared
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  Mexico
  Ramón López Velarde, Octavio Paz
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  Micronesia
  Not Declared
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  Moldova
  Grigore Vieru
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  Monaco
  Louis Notari
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  Mongolia
  Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Byambyn Rinchen, Hadaa Sendoo
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  Montenegro
  Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
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  Montserrat
  Not Declared
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  Morocco
  Mohammed Awzal
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  Mozambique
  Not Declared
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  Myanmar (Burma)
  Min Thu Wun
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  Namibia
  Not Declared
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  Nauru
  Not Declared
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  Nepal
  Madhav Prasad Ghimire
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  Netherlands
  Joost van den Vondel and Jacob Cats
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  New Caledonia
  Not Declared
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  New Zealand
  James K. Baxter and Allen Curnow
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  Nicaragua
  Not Declared
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  Niger
  Not Declared
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  Nigeria
  Chinua Achebe
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  Niue
  Not Declared
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  Norfolk Island
  Not Declared
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  Northern Ireland
  Sinéad Morrissey
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  Norway
  Henrik Wergeland
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  Oman
  Not Declared
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  Pakistan
  Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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  Palau
  Not Declared
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  Palestine
  Mahmoud Darwish
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  Panama
  Ricardo Miró
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  Papua New Guinea
  Not Declared
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  Paraguay
  Not Declared
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  Peru
  César Vallejo
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  Philippines
  Francisco Balagtas
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  Pitcairn Islands
  Not Declared
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  Poland
  Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Jan Kochanowski, Cyprian Norwid
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  Portugal
  Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa
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  Puerto Rico
  Manuel Fernández Juncos
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  Qatar
  Not Declared
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  Romania
  Mihai Eminescu
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  Russia
  Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Mikhail Lermontov, Gavrila Derzhavin, Nikolay Nekrasov, Vladimir Vysotsky
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  Rwanda
  Not Declared
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  Saba
  Not Declared
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  Saint Barthélemy
  Not Declared
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  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Not Declared
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  Samoa
  Not Declared
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  San Marino
  Pio Chiaruzzi
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  Sao Tome and Principe
  Not Declared
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  Saudi Arabia
  Not Declared
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  Scotland
  Robert Burns
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  Senegal
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
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  Serbia
  Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Vladislav Petković Dis, Oskar Davičo, Desanka Maksimović
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  Seychelles
  Not Declared
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  Sierra Leone
  Not Declared
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  Singapore
  Edwin Thumboo
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  Sint Maarten
  Lasana M. Sekou
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  Slovakia
  Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
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  Slovenia
  France Prešeren
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  Solomon Islands
  Not Declared
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  Somalia
  Hadrawi
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  Somaliland
  Not Declared
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  South Africa
  Mazisi Kunene
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  South Sudan
  Not Declared
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  Spain
  Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Federico García Lorca
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  Sri Lanka
  Ananda Samarakoon
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  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Not Declared
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  Saint Lucia
  Not Declared
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  Sudan
  Gely Abdel Rahman
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  Suriname
  Trefossa
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  Svalbard
  Not Declared
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  Sweden
  Carl Michael Bellman, Gustaf Fröding, Verner von Heidenstam, Esaias Tegnér
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  Switzerland
  Gottfried Keller and Carl Spitteler
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  Syria
  Nizar Qabbani
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  Taiwan
  Loa Ho, Du Fu, Li Bai, Lu Xun
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  Tajikistan
  Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Saadi, Molavi, Nasir Khusraw, Sadriddin Ayni, Gulnazar Keldi
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  Tanzania
  Shaaban bin Robert
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  Tatarstan
  Abdullah Tuqay
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  Thailand
  Thammathibet, Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai, Sunthorn Phu, Vajiravudh, Thommayanti
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  Togo
  Not Declared
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  Tokelau
  Not Declared
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  Tonga
  Not Declared
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  Trinidad and Tobago
  Not Declared
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  Tunisia
  Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
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  Turkiye
  Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Nâzım Hikmet
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  Turkmenistan
  Magtymguly Pyragy
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  Turks and Caicos Islands
  Not Declared
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  Tuvalu
  Not Declared
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  Uganda
  Not Declared
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  Ukraine
  Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka
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  United Arab Emirates
  Not Declared
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  United Kingdom
  Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (England)
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  United States of America
  Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks
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  Uruguay
  Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
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  Uzbekistan
  Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Mirtemir
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  Vanuatu
  Not Declared
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  Holy See (Vatican City)
  Not Declared
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  Venezuela
  Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco
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  Vietnam
  Nguyễn Du, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Hàn Mặc Tử
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  Wales
  Ifor ap Glyn
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  Yemen
  Not Declared
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  Zambia
  Not Declared
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  Zimbabwe
  Not Declared