1911 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984), Pakistani poet
• February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
• February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
• February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
• March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian
• April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poet
• May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet
• May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
• June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary critic
• June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poet
• June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
• June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004), Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
• July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic
• July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poet
• August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
• September 9 – Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet
• October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet
• November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), Greek
• November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), Australian
• December 13 – Kenneth Patchen, (died 1972) American poet and novelist

• Also:
  • C. B. Christesen (died 2003), Australian
  • Robert Clark, Australian
  • Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), French
  • Ernst Meister (died 1979), German
  • Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
  • Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator
  • Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist
  • Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist