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Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati (born Gherasim Istrate, 1884–1935) was a Romanian writer of Greek paternal origin who wrote chiefly in French; Romain Rolland called him a "Gorki of the Balkans".
Paul Ernst (German writer)
Paul Ernst (1866–1933) was a German writer of novels, novellas, and dramas, a chief representative of German Neuklassik who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Paul Nizan
Paul Nizan (Paul-Yves Nizan) was a French writer and philosopher, a friend of Sartre, who broke with the Communist Party in 1939 and died at Dunkirk in 1940.
Paul Vialar
Paul Vialar (1898–1996) was a French novelist and short-story writer, author of roughly eighty works, best known for the hunting novel La Grande Meute (1943).
Per Hallström
Per Hallström (1866–1960) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, and translator, remembered as the greatest name in the Swedish short story and a key figure behind the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Petras Cvirka
Petras Cvirka (1909–1947) was a Lithuanian writer of novels, short stories, and children's books, later the most canonized prose writer of Soviet Lithuania and a contested figure.
Peyami Safa
Peyami Safa (1899–1961), who also wrote as Server Bedii, was a Turkish novelist and journalist best known for Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu and Fatih-Harbiye and the Cingöz Recai detective series.
Pío Baroja
Pío Baroja y Nessi (1872–1956) was a Spanish novelist of the Generation of '98 who wrote almost a hundred novels, including Zalacaín el aventurero and El árbol de la ciencia.
Radoje Domanović
Radoje Domanović (Радоје Домановић), 1873 to 1908, was a Serbian writer, journalist, and political activist, regarded as the founder of the allegorical-satirical short story and best known for Danga, Vođa, and Stradija.
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880–1962) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and diplomat, a leading figure of the Generation of 1914 known for Belarmino y Apolonio.
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau, a French poet, novelist, and editor, co-founded the Oulipo workshop for experimental writing in 1960 and was known for Zazie dans le métro and Exercices de style.
Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet was a French writer who died of typhoid fever at 20 in 1923, leaving the novels Le Diable au corps and Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.
René Béhaine
René Béhaine, pseudonym of René Béhenne (1880–1966), was a French novelist who spent over fifty years writing Histoire d'une société, a sixteen-volume study of provincial bourgeois life, winning literary prizes but remaining little known.
René Maran
René Maran (1887–1960) was a French writer and colonial administrator who in 1921 became the first Black writer to win the Prix Goncourt, for his novel Batouala.
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (born Mehmet Reşat, 1889–1956) was a Turkish novelist and playwright best known for Çalıkuşu (1922), about a young Istanbul woman teaching in Anatolian villages.
Ricarda Huch
Ricarda Huch (1864–1947) was a German poet, novelist, and historian, the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts' poetry section and a public opponent of the Nazi regime.
Riccardo Bacchelli
Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, playwright, and critic who championed Renaissance and 19th-century narrative styles against modernist experiment, best known for the trilogy Il mulino del Po.
Robert Musil
Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian novelist and essayist, author of the unfinished modernist masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities), known for its essayism, the fictional Kakania, and his Mach-based philosophical training.
Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was a Swiss writer known for the novels The Tanners, The Assistant, and Jakob von Gunten and for his microscopic pencil manuscripts.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) was a French novelist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for Les Thibault, a cycle about two brothers before World War I.
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and musicologist who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for the ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe and his wartime pacifist writings.
Rosa Chacel
Rosa Chacel (1898–1994) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, diarist, and translator of the Generation of '27 who spent roughly three decades in exile after the Spanish Civil War.
Rudolf Hans Bartsch
Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952) was an Austrian novelist and former military officer, one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of pre-war and interwar Austria, best known for the Schubert novel Schwammerl (1912).
Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948) was a Turkish novelist, poet, and educator, a major figure of Republican-era literature, best known for Kürk Mantolu Madonna and stories of Anatolian villagers and laborers.
Sally Salminen
Sally Salminen (1906–1976) was a Finland-Swedish writer from Vårdö in the Åland Islands whose debut novel Katrina (1936), written while she worked as a maid in New York, sold 53,000 copies.
Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (1900–1989), born in Kassa, was a leading Hungarian novelist and journalist who left communist Hungary in 1948; his novel Embers brought him posthumous international fame.
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), Swedish author of Gösta Berlings saga and Nils Holgerssons underbara resa; first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909) and first woman in the Swedish Academy (1914).
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch (שלום אש, 1880–1957), Yiddish novelist and playwright from Kutno, Poland; author of A shtetl, God of Vengeance, and the controversial Christian trilogy The Nazarene, The Apostle, and Mary.
Sigfrid Siwertz
Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) was a Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright best known for Selambs (1920) and Mälarpirater (1911), serving in the Swedish Academy from 1932.
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), Norwegian novelist and 1928 Nobel laureate in Literature, famous for the medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter; Catholic convert, Nazi-banned author, wartime exile in the USA.