Writers and literary biographies

O. N. V. Kurup (ഒ. എൻ. വി. കുറുപ്പ്)

O. N. V. Kurup (ഒ. എൻ. വി. കുറുപ്പ്), also O.N.V., 1931–2016, Malayalam poet and film lyricist from Chavara, Kollam; Jnanpith Award 2007, Padma Vibhushan 2011, National Film Award for Vaishali.

O. V. Vijayan

O. V. Vijayan, born Oottupulackal Velukkutty Vijayan, was an Indian Malayalam novelist and political cartoonist (1930–2005) whose debut novel Khasakkinte Ithihasam (1969) is treated as a dividing line in Malayalam fiction.

Objectivist poets

The Objectivist poets were a loose group of American and British modernist writers named by Louis Zukofsky, including Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and Basil Bunting.

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong (born 1988, Saigon) is a Vietnamese American poet and novelist, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (T.S. Eliot Prize), On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Time Is a Mother, and The Emperor of Gladness.

Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), American science fiction author of Kindred and the Parable novels; first SF writer to win a MacArthur Fellowship (1995), two-time Hugo and Nebula winner, archive at the Huntington Library.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican poet and essayist, 1990 Nobel laureate in Literature and first Mexican to win it. Author of El laberinto de la soledad, Piedra de sol, and Blanco; ambassador to India who resigned after the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre; founder of Plural and Vuelta.

Ödön von Horváth

Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938), born Edmund Josef von Horváth, was an Austrian-Hungarian writer who renewed the Volksstück folk play and wrote the antifascist novel Jugend ohne Gott.

Odysseus Elytis

Odysseus Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης), pen name of Odysseus Alepoudelis, was a Greek poet who received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry rooted in Greek tradition.

Ofelia Zepeda

Ofelia Zepeda (born 1952) is a Tohono O'odham poet and linguist who wrote the first pedagogical grammar of the O'odham language and won a MacArthur Fellowship.

Ogahiy

Ogahiy, full name Muhammad Rizo Ogahiy (1809–1874), was an Uzbek poet, historian, and translator of the Khiva Khanate who wrote chronicles of Khiva, lyric ghazals, and Persian translations.

Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash (Frederic Ogden Nash, 1902 to 1971) was an American poet of whimsical, punning light verse whose work filled The New Yorker and included the Broadway hit One Touch of Venus.

Oğuz Atay

Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a Turkish novelist and civil engineer whose experimental first novel Tutunamayanlar, ignored in his lifetime, became one of Turkish literature's most reprinted works.

Oh Jung-hee

Oh Jung-hee (오정희, born 1947) is a South Korean novelist whose fiction centers on women's psychology, alienation, and female identity, winning both the Yi Sang and Dong-in Literary Awards.

Ojārs Vācietis

Ojārs Vācietis (1933–1983) was a Latvian poet, translator, and publicist who led the Soviet-era Thaw generation and was banned from publishing from 1960 to 1966.

Okamoto Kanoko

Okamoto Kanoko, born Kano Ōnuki, was a Japanese novelist, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar who wrote acclaimed fiction such as Rōkishō before her death in 1939.

Oksana Zabuzhko

Oksana Zabuzhko, born 1960 in Lutsk, is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist whose 1996 novel Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international event in post-Soviet Ukrainian literature.

Oktay Akbal

Oktay Akbal (1923–2015) was a Turkish short-story writer, novelist, and columnist of the Republican era, known for autobiographical Istanbul fiction, plain poetic prose, and a daily Cumhuriyet column until 2014.

Oktay Rifat

Oktay Rifat, full name Ali Oktay Rifat (1914–1988), was a Turkish poet, playwright, and novelist who co-founded the Garip movement in 1941 and later embraced the Second New.

Olaf Bull

Olaf Bull (1883–1933) was a Norwegian poet, regarded in Denmark and Sweden as the leading Nordic lyricist of his time, debuting with Digte in 1909.

Olav Aukrust

Olav Aukrust (1883–1929) was a Norwegian teacher, folk high school headmaster, and poet who wrote in Nynorsk and counted among the leading lyric poets of the interwar years.

Olav Duun

Olav Duun (1876–1939) was a Norwegian novelist and teacher, ranked among Norway's foremost, best known for the six-volume Juvikfolke cycle (1918–1923) and the Medmenneske trilogy (1929–1933).

Olav H. Hauge

Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994) was a Norwegian poet and fruit farmer in Ulvik who wrote in Nynorsk and became one of Norway's foremost lyric poets.

Olavo Bilac

Olavo Bilac (1865–1918) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist, and school inspector who founded the Academia Brasileira de Letras and wrote the Hino à Bandeira lyrics.

Ole Edvart Rølvaag

Ole Edvart Rølvaag (1876–1931), born Ole Edvart Pedersen, was a Norwegian-American novelist and St. Olaf professor whose Giants in the Earth (1927) became a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection.

Ole Sarvig

Ole Sarvig (1921–1981) was a Danish writer and one of the central Danish lyric poets of the twentieth century, known for religiously toned poetry expressing cultural crisis after World War II.

Olegário Mariano

Olegário Mariano (1889–1958) was a Brazilian poet, politician, and diplomat elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras and named Prince of Brazilian Poets in 1938.

Olegario Víctor Andrade

Olegario Víctor Andrade (1839–1882) was an Argentine Romantic poet and journalist, regarded as the national poet of Argentina, known for El nido de cóndores and Atlántida.

Oleksandr Oles

Oleksandr Oles (Олександр Олесь), real name Oleksandr Kandyba, was a Ukrainian lyric poet and dramatist born in 1878 who was central to Ukrainian symbolism and died in Prague in 1944.

Olena Pchilka

Olena Pchilka (Олена Пчілка), pen name of Olha Petrivna Kosach, was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, and editor, and the mother of the poet Lesia Ukrainka.