Ida Ospelt-Amann
Ida Ospelt-Amann was a notable Liechtenstein dialect poet and recognized as one of the prominent contributors to Liechtenstein dialect poetry.
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Eowudong
Versatile 15th-century Joseon Dynasty artist, excelling in dance, literature, art, and poetry.
Indradevi
Politically influential queen of the Khmer Empire from roughly 1181 to 1219
Yolanda Morazzo
Born in 1927 on the vibrant island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, Yolanda Morazzo emerged as a leading voice in the archipelago’s literary scene.
Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
Agripina Samper Agudelo
1800s Colombian poet and literary figure
Anne-Marie Adiaffi
1900s Ivorian writer
Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil
Prominent Djiboutian poet, singer, and songwriter.
María Cano
María de los Ángeles Cano Márquez was a pioneering Colombian poet, writer, and the country’s first female political leader. Known as the “Labor Flower,” she championed civil rights and workers’ rights, leading strikes and co-founding the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.