Let’s start an entirely subjective debate for no reason:

Who’s the definitive Bard of each language?

My picks:

• English - Shakespeare

• German - Goethe

• Italian - Dante

• French - Proust

• Russian - Pushkin

• Spanish - Cervantes

• Romanian - Eminescu

• Polish - Mickiewicz

• Albanian - Kadare

• Hungarian - Jókai

• Portuguese - Pessoa

• Ukrainian - Kotliarevsky

• Scots - Burns

• Old Irish - Forgaill

• Latin - Virgil

• Greek - Homer

• Norse - Snorri

• Persian - Rumi

• Bengali - Tagore

• Punjabi - Singh

• Japanese - Bashō

• Mandarin - Li Bai

• Thai - Phu

• Tibetan - Lingpa

• Arabic - Scheherazade (if she doesn’t count, then Mahfouz)

• Turkic - Korkut

• Urdu - Khusrau

• Igbo - Achebe

• Bantu - Thiong’o

• Hebrew - Halevi

What would yours be?