Taiwanese poets

Yu Hsi (born Hung Ching Yu) (born March 16, 1951) is a Taiwanese Tamil poet and scholar, who has translated the Tirukkural and the poems of Subramaniya Bharathi and poet Bharathidasan in Mandarin. He is the founder president of the Tamil Sangam in Taiwan. He has received various awards, including awards from Seoul World Academy of Arts and Culture (2004), Thiruvalluvar award (2014), and a felicitation from former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

Luo Yijun (Chinese: 駱以軍; pinyin: Luò Yǐjūn; born 29 March 1967) is a Taiwanese writer.

Xi Murong (Chinese: 席慕容; pinyin: Xí Mùróng; born 1943) is a writer and painter. She is most famous for her poetry, especially the collections Qi li xiang (Seven-li scent) and Wuyuan de qingchun (Unregrettable Youth).

John Ching Hsiung Wu (also John C.H. Wu; Traditional Chinese: 吳經熊; pinyin: Wu Jingxiong) (born 28 March 1899, Ningbo – 6 February 1986) was a Chinese jurist and author. He wrote works in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature (including a translation of the Tao Te Ching) and on legal topics.

Wai-lim Yip (Chinese: 葉維廉; pinyin: Ye Weilian; born June 20, 1937), is a Chinese poet, translator, critic, editor, and professor of Chinese and comparative literature at UC San Diego. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University. He is also a visiting teacher at China's Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Chou Meng-tieh (simplified Chinese: 周梦蝶; traditional Chinese: 周夢蝶; pinyin: Zhōu Mèngdié; 29 December 1921 – 1 May 2014) was a Taiwanese poet and writer. He lived in Tamsui District, New Taipei City.

Li Kuei-hsien (Chinese: 李魁賢; pinyin: Lǐ Kuíxián; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Khoe-hiân; born 1937) is a Taiwanese author and poet. He began writing poems in 1953 upon his graduation from the Taipei Institute of Technology. He is noted for writing extended verse in Taiwanese Hokkien and represents an influential figure in the Taiwanese literature movement. Li's work today appears in multi-volume sets of collected poems published in 2001, 2002, and 2003. His "February 28th Incident Requiem" was set to music in 2008 by composer Fan-Long Ko. Translations of Li's poems have been published in Japan, Korea, Russia, New Zealand, Mongolia, India, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Canada. Li has also translated poems and edited collections of modern poems from Italy and other European sources.

Lai He (Chinese: 賴和; pinyin: Lai He; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Loā Hô) (28 May 1894 – 31 January 1943) was a Taiwanese poet who was born in Changhua Hsien, Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan-Province, Qing Taiwan (modern-day Changhua, Taiwan). He was a medical doctor but had enormous fame in literature. His poetry works were especially praised, and Lai was commonly known as one of Taiwan's most representative poets. He is also hailed as the "Father of Modern Taiwanese Literature".

Bo Yang (simplified Chinese: 柏杨; traditional Chinese: 柏楊; pinyin: Bóyáng; 7 March 1920 – 29 April 2008), sometimes also erroneously called Bai Yang, was a Taiwanese poet, essayist and historian. He is also regarded as a social critic. According to his own memoir, the exact date of his birthday was unknown even to himself. He later adopted 7 March, the date of his 1968 imprisonment, as his birthday.

Chan Tah Wei (Chinese: 陳大為; Jyutping: Can4 Daai6 Wai4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Tāi-ûi; born 28 September 1969) is a Malaysian Chinese poet, prose writer and academic. He is currently teaching at the National Taiwan University.

Kuan Yun-loong (Chinese: 管運龍; 27 September 1929 – 1 May 2021) was a Taiwanese painter, poet and writer known by the pen name Guan Guan (管管).

Liang Jingfeng (梁景峰; also Liang Ching-feng, Liang Chingfeng; born 1944 in Gaoshu Township, Pingtung County) is a Taiwanese specialist on Taiwan nativist literature, especially native Taiwanese poetry since the 1920s. He also studies German literature, especially Heinrich Heine. He was a notable activist in the Tangwai movement that took to the streets in the mid-1970s in opposition to the KMT dictatorship and for democracy and the rights of workers, peasants and fishers. In the 1970s, he was very active in the Tangwai movement or Democracy Movement. Liang was active in the folk music movement scene and is known in Taiwan for writing the lyrics of the song Meilidao (Beautiful Island美麗島). This song, composed by Liang's friend, the painter, writer, and composer Li Shuangzi, was the anthem of the Tangwai (or Democracy) movement in the 1970s and later became almost the unofficial anthem of Taiwan.

Rong Zi was the pen name of Wang Rongzi (1928 – 9 January 2021), a Chinese-Taiwanese writer who was considered one of the leading modern day Taiwanese poets.

Tsai Ding Hsin (December 10, 1920 – January 20, 2015) was a Chinese calligraphy master, artist and poet of classical Chinese poetry in Taiwan.

Yang Mu (Chinese: 楊牧; pinyin: Yáng Mù, September 6, 1940 - March 13, 2020) is the pen name of a Taiwanese poet, essayist and critic in Chinese language. He was born as Wang Ching-hsien (王靖獻) on 6 September 1940 in Hualien County, Taiwan. As one of the representative figures in the field of contemporary Taiwanese literature, he is famous for combining the graceful style and writing techniques of Chinese classical poetry with elements of Western culture. Apart from romantic feelings, his works also reflect strong awareness of humanistic concern, which has thus brought him widespread attention and high respect. He was named the laureate of the 2013 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, making him the first poet and the first Taiwanese writer to win the award.

Yu Kwang-chung, also Romanised as Yu Guangzhong (Chinese: 余光中; 21 October 1928 – 14 December 2017) was a Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic.

William W. Marr (simplified Chinese: 马为义; traditional Chinese: 馬為義; born September 3, 1936) is a retired engineering researcher and poet.

Lian Heng/Lien Heng (Chinese: 連橫; pinyin: Lián Héng; Wade–Giles: Lien Hêng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân Hêng; 1878–1936) was a Taiwanese historian, politician, poet, merchant, editor of a pro-Japanese newspaper, and advocate of the opium trade in the island of Taiwan. He authored the General History of Taiwan [zh]. Some have claimed that he contributed to the creation and spread of a unified and strong Taiwanese cultural identity through his historical research and works of poetry. But as a journalist he was also a supporter of the Japanese, in particular their expansion of the opium trade into Taiwan. In this regard he worked in opposition to the Taiwanese People's Party and medical associations across Taiwan, as well as the New People Society in Tokyo. For this, he was ostracized by cultural circles and expelled by the Oak Tree Poetry Society, Taiwan's top poetry club. "Feeling that he had no footing among the Taiwanese people," Lien took his family and left for Shanghai. Lian is also known for being the grandfather of Lien Chan, former Chairman of the Kuomintang, and great-grandfather of Sean Lien, the Kuomintang candidate for mayor of Taipei in 2014.

Qiu Fengjia or Chiu Feng-Chia (Chinese: 丘逢甲; pinyin: Qiū Féngjiǎ; Wade–Giles: Ch'iu Feng-chia; 26 December 1864 – 25 February 1912) was a Taiwanese Hakka−Chinese patriot, educator, and poet.

Lin Yang-min (Chinese: 林央敏; pinyin: Lín Yāngmǐn; born 1955) is a Taiwanese author and poet. Lin's body of work totals over twenty published volumes of novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. His Rouge Tears, a poem of 110,000 words set in 9,000 lines, is the first epic poem to be written in Taiwanese. A number of his poems, including "Never Disregard Taiwan", have been set to music by Taiwanese composer Tyzen Hsiao. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the United Daily News Prize for Literature and the Rong Hou Award for Taiwanese Poetry.

Wu Chuo-liu (Chinese: 吳濁流; pinyin: Wú Zhuóliú), born Wu Jiantian (吳建田) (2 June 1900, Xinpu, Hsinchu – 7 October 1976, Taipei?) was an influential Taiwanese journalist and novelist of Hakka ancestry. He has been described as the most powerful witness to history in Taiwanese letters. Many of his most important novels were first written in Japanese.

Shen Guangwen (1612–1688), also known as Wenkai and Si'an, was a scholar, poet, educator, and the founder of Taiwanese literature. He is considered as such, despite having been born in Zhejiang in mainland China, the Qing conquest of Ming forced him to move to Taiwan in 1652. After that, he devoted the rest of his life mainly to enlightening inhabitants in modern-day Tainan until he died in 1688. Significantly, this was the very first opportunity for local people to learn Han Chinese culture. As such, the achievement of Shen Guangwen was a crucial foundation in the development of education and culture in Taiwanese history. As a result, people show their respect for him by giving him another name Taiwanese Confucius.

Mo Yun-tuan (Chinese: 莫運端; pinyin: Mò Yùnduān; 11 May 1928 – 19 March 2018), known by the pen name Luo Fu (洛夫; Luòfū), was a Taiwanese writer and poet.

Fangge Dupan (Chinese: 杜潘芳格; pinyin: Dùpān Fānggé; 9 March 1927 – 10 March 2016) was a Taiwanese poet. Born to a prestigious Hakka family in Xinpu, Hsinchu, she began writing as a teenager in high school. Most of her early work is written in Japanese because she was educated in that language. Due to political pressure, she stopped writing in Japanese and did not publish until the 1960s, in Mandarin. In the late 1980s, Fangge Dupan turned to her native Hakka language.

Yang Chia-hsien (Chinese: 楊佳嫻; born 15 June 1978) is a contemporary Taiwanese writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is also an assistant professor of Department of Chinese Literature at the National Tsing Hua University. Yang sees Lu Xun, Zhang Ai-ling and Yang Mu as the influences of her writings. Yang is regarded as an iconic poet of the cyber-age. Her works, including The Civilization of Holding One’s Breath and Sea Breeze and Sparks, are described as incorporating classical concepts and modern perceptions. Yang was also the youngest poet to be included in the Comprehensive Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature in Taiwan(Vol. 2), and the youngest entrant of the Thirty Years of Elite Taiwan Literature: Thirty New Poets.

Chung Ling (Chinese: c鍾玲; born 1945) is a Taiwan-Chinese writer, critic, educator and translator. Her name also appears as Zhong Ling.

Bukun Ismahasan Islituan (born 1956), also known as Lin Sheng-hsien (林聖賢) in Chinese, is a Taiwanese indigenous poet and writer from Isbukun Bunun. He was born in 1956 in the Maia community, Sanmin Township, Kaohsiung County (now Namasia District, Kaohsiung City). He has served as a junior high school teacher, the chairman of the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation, and the president of the Bunun Cultural Development Association.

Fong Minh (方 明, * July 28, 1954, in Saigon, Vietnam) is a Taiwanese-born French writer and poet.