But commedia dell'arte and 20th century writers such as Mayakovski and Brecht have provided him with important impulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize for Literature 1997 - Press Release] Reference

Suddenly, there were things about Gorki and Mayakovski, and no poetry at all from further west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing, was both an artist and one of China's most revered contemporary poets, who as a young man studied Baudelaire and Mayakovski in Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ventura County Star Stories] Reference