Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
941:
Adipurana by Adikavi Pampa
945:
Publication of Ten Styles of Tadamine by Mibu no Tadamine (approx)
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:
940:
Ferdowsi (died 1020), Persian poet, author of Shahnameh
949:
Fujiwara no Nagayoshi (died unknown), Japanese poet and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period
Ranna (died unknown), writing in Kannada language (approx.)
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
941:
Rudaki (born 858), Persian poet in the Perso-Arabic alphabet or "New Persian" script
943:
Fujiwara no Atsutada, 藤原敦忠, also 権中納言敦忠; also known as 本院中納言 ("Hon'in Chunagon") and 琵琶中納言 ("Biwa Chunagon"), (born 906), middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; one of his poems is included in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology
945:
Ki no Tsurayuki (born 872), Japanese author, poet and courtier of the Heian period
948:
Minamoto no Kintada (born 889), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan
