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Njabulo Ndebele
Njabulo Ndebele (Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele), born 1948, is a South African fiction writer, essayist, and academic known for Fools and Other Stories, which won the Noma Award.
O. V. Vijayan
O. V. Vijayan, born Oottupulackal Velukkutty Vijayan, was an Indian Malayalam novelist and political cartoonist (1930–2005) whose debut novel Khasakkinte Ithihasam (1969) is treated as a dividing line in Malayalam fiction.
Ömer Seyfettin
Ömer Seyfettin (1884–1920) was a Turkish writer and former army officer regarded as a founder of the modern Turkish short story, writing about 150 stories in a plain style.
Ondjaki
Ondjaki, pen name of Ndalu de Almeida, is an Angolan writer born in Luanda in 1977 whose novels and poetry center on Luanda and childhood memory.
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk (Ferit Orhan Pamuk), Turkish novelist born 1952 in Istanbul; first Turkish Nobel laureate in Literature (2006). Novels include The Black Book, My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence; charged under Article 301 in 2005.
Orlando Mendes
Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes (1916–1990) was a Mozambican biologist, poet, novelist, and literary critic whose Portagem (1965/1966) is generally considered the first Mozambican novel.
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (1943–1997) was an Argentine novelist and journalist who wrote in exile after the 1976 military coup, best known for No habrá más penas ni olvido.
Ouyang Shan
Ouyang Shan (欧阳山, born Yang Fengqi, 1908–2000) was a Chinese novelist whose five-volume saga Yidai Fengliu, beginning with Sanjia Xiang, made him a representative Guangdong writer.
P Moe Nin
P Moe Nin (ပီမိုးနင်း, 1883–1940) was a Burmese writer and journalist who pioneered modern Burmese prose; his novel Nay Nyo Nyo appeared in 1920, and he co-founded the daily Myanma Alin.
P. T. Mtuze
P. T. Mtuze (Peter Tshobisa Mtuze) was a South African writer in isiXhosa, a playwright, novelist, poet, translator, priest, and academic who translated Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom.
P. V. Thampi
P. V. Thampi (പി.വി. തമ്പി) was a Malayalam novelist from Kerala, best known for the tantric horror novel Krishnapparunthu (1984), which was adapted into a film.
P. Valsala
P. Valsala (Malayalam: പി. വത്സല; 1938–2023) was an Indian Malayalam novelist and short story writer whose fiction centered on the Adivasi people of Wayanad, women, and nature.
Pablo Palacio
Pablo Palacio (1906–1947) was an Ecuadorian avant-garde writer and lawyer whose brief fiction, including Débora and Vida del ahorcado, became among the most studied in Ecuadorian letters.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra, born 1969, is an Indian author, essayist, and literary critic known for the novel The Romantics and the histories From the Ruins of Empire and Age of Anger.
Pannalal Patel
Pannalal Patel (1912–1989) was a Gujarati novelist and playwright who won the 1985 Jnanpith Award for Manvini Bhavai, a leading figure of the Gujarati regional novel.
Park Wan-suh
Park Wan-suh (박완서, 1931–2011) was a South Korean novelist who debuted in 1970 with The Naked Tree and wrote about war trauma, division, and women's lives for forty years.
Patrice Nganang
Patrice Nganang (full name Alain Patrice Nganang) is a Cameroonian novelist, poet, essayist, and professor of comparative literature at Stony Brook University, born in Yaoundé in 1970.
Patrick White
Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel laureate in Literature, the first and only Australian to win it; author of Voss, The Tree of Man, Riders in the Chariot, and Flaws in the Glass.
Pauline Smith
Pauline Smith was a South African novelist and short story writer whose fiction depicts Afrikaner farming life in the Little Karoo, notably The Little Karoo (1925) and The Beadle (1926).
Peary Chand Mitra
Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883) was a Bengali writer, librarian, and social reformer of Calcutta whose Alaler Gharer Dulal is counted the first novel in the Bengali language.
Pepetela
Pepetela, pen name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, is an Angolan novelist born in Benguela in 1941, known for Mayombe and the 1997 Camões Prize.
Phạm Duy Tốn
Phạm Duy Tốn (1883–1924) was a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and translator who pioneered the modern short story; his Sống chết mặc bay (1918) is treated as the first of its kind.
Phanishwar Nath Renu
Phanishwar Nath Renu (फणीश्वरनाथ रेणु, 1921–1977), born Phanishwarnath Mandal, was an Indian Hindi writer whose novel Maila Anchal founded the regional novel genre in Hindi literature.
Pius Ngandu Nkashama
Pius Ngandu Nkashama (1946–2023) was a Congolese novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic who wrote in French and Tshiluba and taught at Louisiana State University.
Piyadasa Sirisena
Piyadasa Sirisena (පියදාස සිරිසේන, 1875–1946) was a Sinhala novelist, poet, and journalist called the father of the Sinhala novel, with over twenty novels to his name.
Ponjikkara Rafi
Ponjikkara Rafi (പോഞ്ഞിക്കര റാഫി), born Joseph Raphael, was an Indian Malayalam novelist and screenwriter (1924–1992) whose 1958 novel Swargadoothan introduced stream-of-consciousness technique to Malayalam fiction.
Ponneelan
Ponneelan (பொன்னீலன்) is the pen name of Kandeswara Bhaktavatsalan, a Tamil writer from Kanyakumari district, India, whose novel Pudhiya Dharisanangal won the 1994 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Poornachandra Tejaswi (ಪೂರ್ಣಚಂದ್ರ ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ)
Poornachandra Tejaswi (ಪೂರ್ಣಚಂದ್ರ ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ), 1938–2007, Kannada writer, son of Kuvempu; Navya and Bandaaya literature author of Karvalo, Jugari Cross, Chidambara Rahasya; Sahitya Akademi and Pampa award winner.
Porfirio Parra
Porfirio Parra y Gutiérrez (1854–1912) was a Mexican physician, logician, and novelist, a leading positivist who succeeded his teacher Gabino Barreda in the chair of logic at Mexico's Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Pram, 1925-2006), Indonesian novelist from Blora, author of the Buru Quartet (Bumi Manusia and sequels), imprisoned by the Dutch, Sukarno, and Suharto regimes; 50+ works in 42 languages.