Zenon Przesmycki, was a Polish poet, translator and art critic of the literary period of Młoda Polska, who studied law in Italy, France and England; in 1887–1888 he served as the editor-in-chief of the Warsaw magazine Życie (Life), an influential first-ever publication on modernism in Poland.
Zenta Mauriņa was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive.
Carl Zeth "Zäta" Konstantin Höglund was a leading Swedish communist politician, anti-militarist, author, journalist and mayor (finansborgarråd) of Stockholm (1940–1950).
Zetta Elliott is a Canadian-American poet, playwright, and author. Her first picture book Bird, won many awards. She has also been recognized for other contributions to children's literature, as well as for her essays, plays, and young adult novels.
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei was a pioneer Iranian novelist and a social reformer. He is most known for the 1895 story of Travel Diary of Ebrahim Beg. This work was critical in the development of novel writing in twentieth-century Iran, and played an important political role as well. The story was a criticism on Iran's political and social affairs. It was widely read in Iran and gained the interest of revolutionaries and reformers who made the Constitutional Revolution of 1906.
Zhaleh Alamtaj Ghaemmaghami was one of the first Iranian female poets who showed her feminist attitudes in her poetry. The book Mirror of Dew was the first translation of her poems into English.
