WJānis Akuraters was a Latvian poet, writer, playwright and politician. He founded the Latvian National Theatre in 1919 and was director of Radio of Riga between 1930 and 1934.
WUldis Bērziņš is a Latvian poet and translator.
WLeons Briedis was a Latvian poet, a novelist, an essayist, a literary critic and publisher, translator of prose and poetry from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages, Swahili, Albanian and other languages. He was also an author of several musicals produced on the radio and staged at the biggest theatres in Latvia, script writer wrote much for children, author of song texts, translated 10 plays staged at Latvian theatres and rendered in verse opera librettos.
WMāris Čaklais was a Latvian poet, writer, and journalist.
WAleksandrs Čaks, was a Latvian poet and writer. Čaks is arguably the first Latvian writer whose works are distinctly urban, compared to the usual depictions of country life or small villages in earlier Latvian literature.
WJuris Kronbergs was a Latvian-Swedish poet and translator who lived in Stockholm.
WOrbita is a Latvian Russian-language poetry and multimedia art collective formed in Riga, Latvia in 1999.
WRainis was the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns, a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts and Indulis un Ārija, and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
WRichard Rudzitis was a Latvian and Soviet poet, writer, translator and philosopher. He was chairman of the Latvian Roerich Cultural Relations Association from 1936 to 1940.
WOjārs Vācietis was a Latvian writer and poet. He is often considered one of the most famous and influential poets in the Latvian SSR.
WImants Ziedonis was a Latvian poet and writer who first rose to fame during the Soviet era in Latvia.