List of national poets

A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, to be distinguished from successive holders of a bureaucratically-appointed poet-laureate office.
Most national poets are historic figures, though a few contemporary writers working in relatively new or revived national literatures are also considered "national poets." Some nations may have more than one national poet; the idea of a single one is always a simplification.
The following is a list of nations, with their associated national poets. It is not a list of sovereign states or countries, though many of the nations listed may also be such. The terms "nation" (as cultural concept), "country" (as geographical concept) and "state" (as political concept) are not synonyms.
Africa
*Algeria - Si Mohand
*Angola - Agostinho Neto
*Egypt - Ahmed Shawqi
*Ethiopia - Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
*Mali - Fily Dabo Sissoko
*Morocco - Mohammed Awzal
*Nigeria - Chinua Achebe
*Senegal - Leopold Sedar Senghor
*Somalia - Hadrawi
*South Africa - Mazisi Kunene
*Sudan - Gely Abdel Rahman
*Tanzania - Euphrase Kezilahabi
*Tunisia - Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
Asia
*Afghanistan - Khushal Khan Khattak
*Azerbaijan - Fuzûlî, Nizami Ganjavi, Imadaddin Nasimi, Samad Vurgun
*Bangladesh - Kazi Nazrul Islam
*Cambodia - Preah Botumthera Som, Krom Ngoy, Chuon Nath
*China - Du Fu, Li Bai, Lu Xun
*India - Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chatterjee
*Iran - Ferdowsi, Hafez, Rudaki, Nezami Ganjavi, Saadi, Khayyam, Molavi, Naser Khosrow, Adib Boroumand
*Iraq - Maarouf Al Rasafi
*Israel - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Yehuda Amichai, Yehuda Halevi
*Japan - Koizumi Yakumo, Murasaki Shikibu
*Kazakhstan - Abay Qunanbayuli,known as Abai Kunanbaev
*Korea - Kim Sowol, Ko Un
*Kurdistan - Khana Qubadi
*Kyrgyzstan - Toktogul Satylganov
*Lebanon - Gibran Khalil Gibran, Said Akl
*Malaysia - Usman Awang
*Mongolia - Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Byambyn Rinchen, Hadaa Sendoo
*Myanmar - Min Thu Wun
*Nepal - Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Motiram Bhatta
*Ossetia - Kosta Xetagurov
*Pakistan - Allama Muhammad Iqbal
*Palestine - Mahmoud Darwish
*Philippines - Francisco Balagtas
*Saudi Arabia - Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi
*Sri Lanka - Ananda Samarakoon
*Syria - Nizar Qabbani
*Tajikistan - Rudaki, Sadriddin Ayni, Gulnazar Keldi
*Thailand - Sunthorn Phu
*Turkmenistan - Magtymguly Pyragy
*Uzbekistan - Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, Gafur Gulom, Mirtemir
*Vietnam - Nguyen Du
*Yemen- Abdullah Al-Baradouni
Europe
*Albania - Gjergj Fishta, Naim Frashëri
*Andorra - Albert Salvadó
*Armenia - Hovhannes Tumanyan
*Austria - Franz Grillparzer, Peter Rosegger, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
*Basque Country - Joseba Sarrionandia
*Belarus - Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas
*Belgium - Emile Verhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck
*Bosnia - Izet Sarajlic
*Bulgaria - Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov
*Catalonia - Jacint Verdaguer
*Croatia - , Miroslav KrleÅ¾a
*Cyprus - Vasilis Michaelides
*Czech Republic - Karel Hynek Mácha, , Jan Neruda
*Dagestan - Rasul Gamzatov
*Denmark - Adam Oehlenschläger
*England - William Shakespeare
*Estonia - Lydia Koidula, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
*Faroe Island - William Heinesen
*Finland - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Elias Lönnrot
*Flanders- Hendrik Conscience, Guido Gezelle, Hugo Claus
*France - Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
*Friesland - Gysbert Japicx
*Galicia - Rosalía de Castro
*Georgia - Shota Rustaveli
*Germany - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich von Schiller
*Gibraltar - Héctor Licudi
*Greece - Homer, Dionisios Solomos
*Guernsey - George Métivier
*Hungary -
*Iceland - Jonas Hallgrimsson, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Halldór Laxness
*Ireland - Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats
*Italy - Dante Alighieri (known as Dante), Giosuè Carducci, Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Gabriele D'Annunzio
*Kosovo - Din Mehmeti
*Latvia - Rainis, Andrejs Pumpurs
*Liechtenstein - Peter Kaiser
*Lithuania - Adam Mickiewicz, Kristijonas Donelaitis
*Luxembourg - Edmond de la Fontaine( known as Dicks), Michel Rodange
*Macedonia - , Gjorgjija Pulevski and Kole Nedelkovski
*Malta - Dun Karm Psaila
*Moldova - Mihai Eminescu, Grigore Vieru
*Monaco - Louis Notari
*Montenegro - Petar Petrovic Njegos
*Netherlands - Joost van den Vondel, Jacob Cats
*Norway - Henrik Wergeland
*Poland - the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz, ,
*Portugal - Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa
*Romania - Mihai Eminescu
*Russia - Alexander Pushkin
*San Marino - Pio Chiaruzzi
*Scotland - Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Barbour, Edwin Morgan
*Serbia - , Vasko Popa
*Slovakia - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
*Slovenia - France Prešeren
*Spain - Miguel de Cervantes, Federico Garcia Lorca
*Sweden - Carl Michael Bellman, Gustaf Fröding, Verner von Heidenstam, Esaias Tegnér
*Switzerland - Gottfried Keller, Carl Spitteler
*Turkey - Mehmet Akif Ersoy
*Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko
*Wales - Dylan Thomas, Dafydd ap Gwilym
North America
*Canada - Pauline Johnson
*Quebec - Émile Nelligan, Gaston Miron, Octave Crémazie, Gilles Vigneault, Félix Leclerc
*Cuba - José Martí
*Dominican Republic - Pedro Mir
*Guatemala - Miguel Angel Asturias
* Haiti - Jacques Roumain
*Mexico - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Octavio Paz
*Nicaragua - Ruben Dario
*Panama - Ricardo Miró
*Saint Lucia - Derek Walcott
*United States - Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
Oceania
*Australia - Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Dorothea Mackellar,
*New Zealand - Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame
South America
*Argentina - José Hernández, Jorge Luis Borges
*Brazil - Gonçalves Dias, Olavo Bilac, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
*Chile - Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral
*Colombia - Rafael Pombo
*Ecuador - Jose Joaquin de Olmedo, Jorge Enrique Adoum
*Peru - César Vallejo
*Uruguay - Juan Zorrilla de San Martin
*Venezuela - Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco

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