What is "poet-diplomat"

Poet-diplomats are poets who have also served their countries as diplomats. Perhaps the best known is Geoffrey Chaucer. Some of them, such as Gabriela Mistral, Saint-John Perse, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, George Seferis, Czesław Miłosz and Octavio Paz have won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Contemporary poet-diplomats include Abhay K, Indran Amirthanayagam, Kofi Awoonor, Philip McDonagh, Yiorgos Chouliaras among others. The Ghanaian poet-diplomat Kofi Awoonor, who was widely translated and anthologized, was killed recently at Nairobi Mall Massacre.