Foreign Minister and a published poet in July 2002. Notable poet-diplomats José Asunción Silva Rubén Darío Abe no Nakamaro Giovanni Boccaccio Thomas Wyatt Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Constantijn Huygens Matthew Prior Joel Barlow Valentin Iremonger Nizar Qabbani Ahmed Fouad Shennib Abioseh Davidson Nicol Eduardo Cote Lamus Shathel Taqa Salah Stétié David Rubadiri Salah Ahmed Ibrahim John Weston Li Zhaoxing Homero Aridjis Ljubomir Nedić Reda Mansour Aleksander Griboyedov George Henry Boker Robert Bulwer-Lytton Abd al Aziz al-Amawi Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior James Rennell Rodd Elena Vacarescu Émile Martel Félix Rubén García Sarmiento Paul Claudel Pablo Neruda Miguel Ángel Asturias James Weldon Johnson Abdul Hadi Dawai José Gorostiza Alcalá Jorge Carrera Andrade Denis Devlin Vinicius de Moraes Peter Zsoldos Milan Rakić Jānis Peters Jovan Dučić Miloš Crnjanski Ivo Andrić Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan Yamanoue no Okura Poet-Ambassadors These poets have also served as Ambassadors of their countries Thomas Wyatt: He was an Ambassador in the service of Henry VIII Pablo Neruda: He served as Ambassador of Chile to France from 1970-1972. Octavio Paz: He served as Ambassador of Mexico to India from 1962-1968. George Seferis: He served as Ambassador of Greece to UK from 1957-1962. Saint-John Perse: He was given the rank of Ambassador of France in 1950 but did not serve as Ambassador to any country. Abhay K: He is India's 21st Ambassador to Madagascar with concurrent accreditation to Comoros. Amarendra Khatua: He served as India's Ambassador and High Commissioner to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Dora Vasconcellos: She served as the Brazilian ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from 1970 to her death. References External links Poetry and Diplomacy Poetry Diplomacy in the Congo Poetry as an Act of International Diplomacy Poetry the new tool of soft diplomacy In Washington, Poetry Diplomacy With Iran Poetry and Diplomacy in the Zuozhuan Leilani Tamu - poetry and diplomacy Diplomatic poetic literature: A growing creativity Homecoming for poet-diplomat The Diplomat as a creative writer Diplomats by role Poets