Poet-diplomats are poets who have also served their countries as diplomats. The best known poet-diplomats are perhaps Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Wyatt; the category also includes recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ivo Andrić, Gabriela Mistral, Saint-John Perse,[1] Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, George Seferis, Czesław Miłosz and Octavio Paz.[2][3][4] Contemporary poet-diplomats include Abhay K,[5] Indran Amirthanayagam, Kofi Awoonor,[6][7] Philip McDonagh[8] and Yiorgos Chouliaras.[9]
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- ^ Abhay Kumar (November 3, 2012). "Two shades of passion". The Kathmandu Post.
- ^ Diplomats as litterateurs The Hindu August 29, 2004
- ^ Bertolet, Craig E. (1998). "Chaucer's Envoys and the Poet-Diplomat". The Chaucer Review. 33 (1): 66–89. JSTOR 25096037.
- ^ "Well versed in diplomacy". Nepali Times. 17–23 January 2014.
- ^ Kofi Awoonor: the literary world pays tribute, The Telegraph September 22, 2013
- ^ "The face of a massacre: eminent poet, diplomat Kofi Awoonor is killed". stanford.edu. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ "Glucksman Ireland House". nyu.edu. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Yiorgos Chouliaras Harvard Review July 24, 2013