Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list, which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, and Philip Larkin to Thom Gunn, Les Murray, Paul Muldoon, francine j. Eliot, Pär Lagerkvist, François Mauriac, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nelly Sachs, Yasunari Kawabata, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, Elias Canetti, William Golding, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, Camilo José Cela, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Handke, and Louise Glück. Nobel Prize winners include Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, T.

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