1931 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 6 –
  • Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist
  • P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster
• January 14 – Ahmed Faraz, pseudonym of Syed Ahmad Shah (died 2008), Pakistani Urdu-language poet, son of Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, a leading traditional poet
• February 2 – Judith Viorst, American author known for her children's books and poetry
• April 15 – Ruth Fainlight, Swedish poet, short story writer, translator and librettist
• April 19 – Etheridge Knight, (died 1991), an African-American poet
• May 16 – Peter Levi, (died 2000), professor of poetry at Oxford University and an English poet, Jesuit priest, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, scholar, prolific reviewer and critic
• May 27 – O. N. V. Kurup, Indian, Malayalam language
• June 13 – Jay Macpherson, Canadian lyric poet and scholar; she is a member of the "mythopoeic school of poetry"
• June 21 – Patricia Goedicke, poet
• July 28 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist
• December 15 – Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎, Japanese poet and translator (surname: Tanikawa)

• Also:
  • P'Bitek, African poet
  • Sonja Dunn
  • Makoto Ooka 大岡信, Japanese poet and literary critic
  • Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish writer, poet and translator