Jean Tardieu (01 November 1903 - 27 January 1995) was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author.

Maurice Tasnier has won several awards for his poetry, and his haiku have been translated into seven languages.

Cecil Philip Taylor usually credited as C. P. Taylor, was a Scottish playwright. He wrote almost 80 plays during his 16 years as a professional playwright, including several for radio and television.

Born in London in 1923 Ken Taylor joined the Royal Navy in 1938. He served on several ships and naval bases during and after the end of the war after receiving training and specialising in radio operations. In 1952 Taylor joined the British North Greenland Expedition as a radio operator. The 2 year expedition was wide ranging and undertook research in fields including geology, meteorology, glaciology, seismology, physiology and the logistics of long term polar exploration. Following the expedition Taylor continued his naval service serving in ships and shore bases until his retirement from the service in 1963.

Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935), is a Cornish novelist, poet, playwright and translator.

Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. He attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth Grammar School before graduating with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford in 1959. He lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall.

He published poetry and some prose in the British Science fiction magazine New Worlds (from 1968). The work that made him famous is his erotic and somewhat fantastical novel The White Hotel (1981), the story of a woman undergoing psychoanalysis, which has proved very popular in continental Europe and the United States. It was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1981, coming a close second, in the view of some, to the winner, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. It has also elicited considerable controversy, as some of its passages are taken from Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar, a novel about the Holocaust. In general, however, Thomas's use of such "composite material" (material taken from other sources and imitations of other writers) is seen as more postmodern than plagiarist.

In the 1950s, at height of the Cold War, Thomas studied Russian during his National Service. He retained a lifelong interest in Russian culture and literature. This culminated in a series of well-received translations of Russian poetry in the 1980s.