Armenia

 Sayat-Nova (Harutyun Sayatyan) ( 1712) was an Armenian poet, musician and ashik, who had compositions in a number of languages.

 Kostan Zarian (1885 –1969) the traveller and his road Picasso and Marc Chagall illustrated his works, Respighi set his poems to music, Lawrence Durrell called him "a wild and roguish literary man of almost mythological quality." Armenian literary scholars and critics are unanimous in regarding him as a unique phenomenon in modern Armenian literature. Gostan Zarian (1885-1969) was born in the Caucasus, educated in Paris, Brussels, and Venice, and was a poet, editor, journalist, teacher, and bon vivant in nearly all the population centers of Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and the Soviet Union. He produced works of an astonishing variety in French, Russian, Italian, and Armenian.