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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti, pen name of French naval officer Julien Viaud (1850–1923), wrote about forty novels from his seagoing career and joined the Académie française in 1891.
Pierre-Henri Simon
Pierre-Henri Simon (1903–1972) was a French novelist, poet, and literary critic who held Le Monde's literary column from 1961 and was elected to the Académie française in 1966.
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.
Pınar Kür
Pınar Kür (1943–2025) was a Turkish novelist, playwright, and translator, best known for Yarın Yarın (1976) and as a pioneer of feminist literature in Türkiye.
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.
Rafael Chirbes
Rafael Chirbes (1949–2015) was a Spanish novelist and literary critic whose nine novels trace Spain's private history from the Civil War through the Transition to the 2008 crisis.
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and journalist of the Generation of the 50, best known for El Jarama (1955), a landmark of postwar Spanish narrative.
Raffaele La Capria
Raffaele La Capria (1922–2022) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and screenwriter born in Naples whose best-known novel, Ferito a morte, won the Strega Prize in 1961.
Raffi
Raffi (Րաֆֆի) was the pen name of Hakob Melik-Hakobian, 1835 to 1888, an Armenian novelist best known for The Fool and Samvel and for creating the Armenian historical novel.
Ragnar Hovland
Ragnar Hovland is a Norwegian author, translator, and publishing consultant, born in Bergen in 1952, whose prolific Nynorsk works span most genres and earned the 2012 Aschehoug Prize.
Ragnhild Jølsen
Ragnhild Jølsen (1875–1908) was a Norwegian novelist who published one book a year from 1903 to 1907, best known for the Gothic novel Rikka Gan (1904), and regarded as an original renewer of Norwegian literature.
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Goetz, born 1954 in Munich, is a German writer of novels, plays, and online diaries, a central figure of German Popliteratur who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015.
Ramón J. Sender
Ramón J. Sender, in full Ramón José Sender Garcés, was an Aragonese Spanish novelist exiled after the Spanish Civil War, known for Réquiem por un campesino español.
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.
Rasim Özdenören
Rasim Özdenören (1940–2022) was a Turkish short-story writer, novelist, and essayist, a leading figure of post-1970 Turkish storytelling whose more than thirty books explore spiritual dissolution between tradition and modernization.
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.
Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem
Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem (Recâizâde Mahmud Ekrem, 1847–1914) was an Ottoman poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and civil servant, remembered as teacher of the Servet-i Fünun writers and author of Araba Sevdası, the first realist Turkish novel.
Regīna Ezera
Regīna Ezera, real name Regīna Kindzule, born Regīna Šamreto, was a Latvian prose writer known for psychological novels and short stories such as Aka (1972) and Zemdegas (1977).
René Bazin
René Bazin (1853–1932) was a French novelist and professor of law at Angers, elected to the Académie française in 1903, whose novels depicted rural life.
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.
Ričardas Gavelis
Ričardas Gavelis (1950–2002) was a Lithuanian prose writer, playwright, and publicist whose 1989 novel Vilnius Poker is considered a landmark of Lithuanian postmodern fiction.
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.
Roger Peyrefitte
Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000), French diplomat-turned-novelist, Prix Renaudot winner for Les Amitiés particulières (1944), a boarding-school love story; also wrote satirical keys to the Vatican, diplomacy, and Freemasonry.