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Oskar Braaten
Oskar Braaten (full name Oskar Alexander Braaten, 1881–1939) was a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and magazine editor who depicted factory life on the east side of Kristiania, now Oslo.
Oskar Luts
Oskar Luts was an Estonian prose writer and playwright, sometimes called the Estonian Dickens, whose novel Kevade (Spring, 1912–1913) remains a core text of Estonian culture.
Ostap Vyshnia
Ostap Vyshnia, pen name of Pavlo Hubenko, was a Ukrainian satirist and humorist, 1889 to 1956, the most widely read Ukrainian prose writer of the 1920s.
Otto Ludwig (writer)
Otto Ludwig was a German writer, dramatist, and critic born in Eisfeld in 1813 who died in Dresden in 1865 and is credited with coining the term poetic realism.
P. C. Jersild
P. C. Jersild, full name Per Christian Jersild, is a Swedish novelist and physician born in 1935 whose satirical fiction takes up social and ethical questions from medicine.
Paavo Rintala
Paavo Rintala (1930–1999) was a Finnish novelist and playwright regarded as a moral conscience of Finnish literature, whose war novels and Mannerheim trilogy stirred strong public controversy.
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".
Panas Myrny
Panas Myrny, pen name of Panas Yakovych Rudchenko (1849–1920), was a Ukrainian writer, principal author of the novel Do Oxen Low When the Mangers Are Full?
Panteleimon Kulish
Panteleimon Kulish (Пантелеймон Куліш) was a Ukrainian writer, historian, and ethnographer who wrote the first Ukrainian historical novel, Chorna rada, led the first complete Ukrainian Bible translation, and reformed Ukrainian orthography.
Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature, best known for his novel Barabbas (1950).
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano, born in 1945 near Paris, is a French novelist whose books return to the German Occupation of Paris; he won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Paul Bourget
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) was a French novelist, critic, and journalist elected to the Académie française in 1894, a master of the psychological novel Le Disciple (1889).
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 Heyse
Paul Heyse (1830–1914) was a German poet, novelist, and translator based in Munich who received the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote the novella L'Arrabbiata.
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 Toutain
Paul Toutain, who wrote as Jean Revel, was a French notary in Rouen and fiction writer praised by Octave Mirbeau and nominated for the 1921 Nobel Prize.
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).
Pavel Vilikovský
Pavel Vilikovský (1941–2020) was a Slovak prose writer and translator, a central figure in Slovak postmodern literature and the only two-time winner of the Anasoft litera award.
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.
Per Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist, known as PO Enquist, was a Swedish novelist and playwright, a leading author of his generation who won the August Prize for Livläkarens besök (1999).
Per Petterson
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist, born in Oslo in 1952, whose restrained fiction about family, loss, and memory, including Out Stealing Horses (2003), has won major international prizes.
Peter Altenberg
Peter Altenberg, pen name of Richard Engländer (1859–1919), was a Jewish-Austrian writer and Vienna bohemian known for very short sketches and prose poems admired by Kafka and Rilke.
Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel (1935–2025) was a Swiss writer of German known for very short prose. He made his breakthrough in 1964 and later won the Prize of the Gruppe 47.
Péter Esterházy
Péter Esterházy (Esterházy Péter, 1950–2016) was a Hungarian writer and essayist, winner of the Kossuth Prize, whose family novel Harmonia caelestis (2000) brought postmodern technique into Hungarian literature.
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (born 1942, Griffen, Carinthia) is an Austrian novelist and playwright, author of Die Hornissen, Publikumsbeschimpfung, Wunschloses Unglück and Die Wiederholung, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature and a controversial figure for his pro-Serbian writings on the Yugoslav wars.
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.
Petronius
Petronius (died 66 CE), Nero's arbiter elegantiae in Tacitus, is the ascribed author of the Satyricon, a fragmentary Latin Menippean novel featuring Encolpius, Giton, and Trimalchio's banquet.
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.
Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers, pen name of Philippe Joyaux (1936-2023), French novelist, critic, and founder-leader of the avant-garde review Tel Quel (1960-1982) and L'Infini (1983); experimental novels like Paradis, then the 1983 bestseller Femmes; husband of Julia Kristeva.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803) was a French artillery officer and writer best known for Les Liaisons dangereuses, the 1782 epistolary novel of seduction and scandal.