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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.
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams, full name Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (1919–2017), was a South African-born novelist and journalist whose 1946 novel Mine Boy drew world attention to conditions under apartheid.
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey (born 1943, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) is an Australian novelist, two-time Booker Prize winner for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang, three-time Miles Franklin winner, New York resident since 1990.
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.
Pratibha Basu
Pratibha Basu (প্রতিভা বসু) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer, and essayist who was a celebrated child singer in Dhaka before marrying the writer Buddhadeva Bose, and wrote about 45 novels.
Pratibha Ray
Pratibha Ray is an Indian novelist who writes in Odia, best known for the feminist Mahabharata retelling Yajnaseni and for winning the Jnanpith Award in 2011.
Premchand (धनपत राय श्रीवास्तव)
Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, 1880–1936), also Nawab Rai, Hindi-Urdu novelist and short-story writer of Lamhi near Varanasi; wrote Sevasadan, Nirmala, Rangbhoomi, Gaban, and Godaan; pioneered idealistic realism and rural themes in Hindi fiction.
Pu Songling
Pu Songling (蒲松龄, 1640–1715) was a Qing dynasty writer from Zichuan, Shandong, best known for Liaozhai zhiyi, a collection of nearly 500 tales of fox spirits and ghosts.
Pudhumaipithan
Pudhumaipithan (புதுமைப்பித்தன்), the pen name of C. Vridhachalam (1906–1948), was an influential Tamil writer who wrote about 100 short stories and brought realism, satire, and modernist technique to Tamil fiction.
Punathil Kunjabdulla
Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940–2017) was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and medical doctor from Kerala, best known for Smarakasilakal, which won the Kerala and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Qi Dengsheng
Qi Dengsheng (七等生; born Liu Wuxiong, 1939–2020) was a Taiwanese modernist novelist, essayist, and painter known for "I Love Black Eyes" (1967) and winner of the National Award for Arts.
Qiu Miaojin
Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津, 1969–1995) was a Taiwanese novelist, a foundational figure of queer Sinophone literature, best known for Notes of a Crocodile and Last Words from Montmartre.
Qu Bo
Qu Bo (曲波, 1923–2002) was a Chinese novelist and former guerrilla commander whose debut novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest became a widely read "red classic".
Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder, known as Annie Aapa, was an Urdu novelist whose 1959 novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) is revered in India and Pakistan alike.
R. K. Narayan
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami, was an Indian novelist and short-story writer in English whose 14 novels set in the fictional town of Malgudi include Swami and Friends and The Guide.
Rachel de Queiroz
Rachel de Queiroz (1910–2003) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist from Fortaleza, Ceará, whose debut novel O Quinze (1930) made her a national figure at twenty.
Rachid al-Daif
Rachid al-Daif (رشيد الضعيف), born 1945 in Zgharta, Lebanon, is a Lebanese novelist, poet, and academic known for spare novels treating the civil war, including Dear Mr. Kawabata.
Rachid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra (رشيد بوجدرة), born in 1941, is an Algerian novelist and essayist who writes in French and Arabic and broke Maghrebi literary taboos with his 1969 novel La Répudiation.
Raduan Nassar
Raduan Nassar, born in 1935, is a Brazilian writer of Lebanese descent whose sparse work, including the novel Lavoura arcaica, earned him the 2016 Prêmio Camões.
Rafael Delgado
Rafael Delgado (1853–1914) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright based in Orizaba, Veracruz, a leading figure of the late nineteenth-century Mexican realist novel.
Raghuveer Chaudhari
Raghuveer Chaudhari (રઘુવીર ચૌધરી), born 1938 in North Gujarat, is an Indian novelist, poet, critic, and playwright writing chiefly in Gujarati; he received the 51st Jnanpith Award in 2015.