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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 Kemal
Orhan Kemal, real name Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü (1914–1970), was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer known for social realist works about workers, migrants, and small tradesmen.
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.
Osamu Dazai (太宰治)
Osamu Dazai, born Shuji Tsushima, was a Japanese novelist best known for The Setting Sun (1947) and No Longer Human (1948); he died by suicide in 1948.
Óscar Collazos
Óscar Collazos (1942–2015) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and literary critic known for the urban novel and the 1969 polemic with Cortázar and Vargas Llosa.
Osman Lins
Osman Lins, full name Osman da Costa Lins (1924–1978), was a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist from Pernambuco, best known for the formally experimental 1973 novel Avalovara.
Osvaldo Lamborghini
Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940–1985) was an Argentine writer and visual artist whose corrosive, politically charged fiction, including El fiord, shaped the Argentine literary canon of the 1970s and 1980s.
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. K. Balakrishnan
P. K. Balakrishnan (പി. കെ. ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ; 1926–1991) was a Malayalam writer and journalist known for the epic novel Ini Njan Urangatte and studies of Kerala's caste history.
P. Kesavadev
P. Kesavadev, born Kesava Pillai (1904–1983), was a Malayalam novelist, short-story writer, and social reformer who pioneered social realism in Kerala fiction, best known for Odayil Ninnu (1942) and winner of the 1964 Sahitya Akademi Award.
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.
Pai Hsien-yung
Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇, born 1937) is a Chinese-language writer known for Taipei People, the novel Crystal Boys, and the Youth Edition of the Kun opera The Peony Pavilion.
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 Kyong-ni
Park Kyong-ni (박경리), born Park Geum-i, was a South Korean novelist whose five-part epic Land, written over 26 years, is regarded as a monumental work of modern Korean literature.
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.
Patricia Grace
Patricia Grace, born in 1937, is a New Zealand novelist and short story writer of Ngāti Toa descent, a key figure in Māori fiction in English from the 1970s.
Patrick Chakaipa
Patrick Chakaipa (1932–2003) was a Zimbabwean Roman Catholic archbishop and Shona-language novelist, the first black Archbishop of Salisbury (Harare) from 1976 until his death in 2003.
Patrick Chamoiseau
Patrick Chamoiseau, born 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, is a French novelist and essayist, a leading figure of the créolité movement who won the 1992 Prix Goncourt for Texaco.
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.
Paulina Chiziane
Paulina Chiziane, born 1955 in Manjacaze, Mozambique, is a Mozambican novelist, the first woman in her country to publish a novel, best known for Niketche (2002).
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).