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Oles Honchar
Oles Honchar (Олесь Гончар) was a Ukrainian writer and public figure whose 1968 novel Sobor (The Cathedral) won readers and was then suppressed by party censorship.
Olga Orozco
Olga Orozco, full name Olga Nilda Gugliotta Orozco (1920–1999), was an Argentine poet and journalist of the Generación del 40, known for dreamlike, mystical poetry and major prizes including the Juan Rulfo Prize.
Olga Sedakova
Olga Sedakova (Ольга Александровна Седакова), born 1949 in Moscow, is a Russian poet, translator, essayist, and philologist whose Christian-rooted poetry circulated unofficially in the USSR before 1989.
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish novelist born 1962 in Sulechow, author of Flights and The Books of Jacob; 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded 2019) and 2018 International Booker Prize winner.
Olha Kobylianska
Olha Kobylianska (Ольга Кобилянська, 1863–1942) was a Ukrainian modernist prose writer and feminist from Bukovyna who began writing in German and is best known for Tsarivna and Zemlia.
Olinda Beja
Olinda Beja (born 1946) is a São Toméan poet, novelist, and storyteller who writes in Portuguese and is considered a leading voice of São Tomé e Príncipe.
Olive Senior
Olive Senior, born 1941, is a Jamaican writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction who has lived in Toronto since 1993 and served as Jamaica's Poet Laureate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), American physician, anatomist, poet, and essayist; Harvard anatomy professor and dean; author of the Breakfast-Table essays and "Old Ironsides"; coined "anesthesia" and "Brahmin Caste of New England"; father of the Supreme Court justice.
Olivia Manning
Olivia Mary Manning (1908–1980), British novelist of the Fortunes of War sequence, the Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy, based on her wartime flight with husband Reggie Smith through Bucharest, Athens, Cairo, and Jerusalem.
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and journalist born in Ouidah in the late 1920s, best known for his first novel Un piège sans fin (1960).
Olzhas Suleimenov
Olzhas Suleimenov (Олжас Сүлейменов), born 1936 in Almaty, is a Kazakh poet and linguist whose 1975 book AZ i IA sparked a major Soviet literary scandal.
Ömer Seyfettin
Ömer Seyfettin (1884–1920) was a Turkish writer and former army officer regarded as a founder of the modern Turkish short story, writing about 150 stories in a plain style.
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (大中臣能宣, 921–991) was a Japanese court poet and Shinto official, one of the Thirty-six Poetic Immortals and chief priest of Ise Shrine from 973.
Ondjaki
Ondjaki, pen name of Ndalu de Almeida, is an Angolan writer born in Luanda in 1977 whose novels and poetry center on Luanda and childhood memory.
One (manga artist)
ONE (ワン) is a Japanese manga artist born 1986 in Niigata, creator of the webcomic One-Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100, later Versus and Bug Ego, and winner of Shogakukan and Kodansha manga awards.
Onésimo Silveira
Onésimo Silveira (1935–2021) was a Cape Verdean poet, essayist, and diplomat whose 1963 essay attacked the Claridade literary circle and called for literature rooted in Cape Verdean reality.
Ono no Komachi (小野小町)
Ono no Komachi (小野小町), early Heian-period Japanese waka poet, the only woman among the Six Poetic Immortals, famed for love poems such as Hyakunin Isshu No. 9 and for beauty legends.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, known until 1988 as Kath Walker, was an Aboriginal Australian poet and activist whose 1964 collection We Are Going was the first poetry book published by an Aboriginal Australian.
Orhan Kemal
Orhan Kemal, real name Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü (1914–1970), was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer known for social realist works about workers, migrants, and small tradesmen.
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk (Ferit Orhan Pamuk), Turkish novelist born 1952 in Istanbul; first Turkish Nobel laureate in Literature (2006). Novels include The Black Book, My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence; charged under Article 301 in 2005.
Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık, known as Orhan Veli (1914–1950), was a Turkish poet who with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet Anday founded the Garip movement, rejecting meter and rhyme.
Orlando Mendes
Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes (1916–1990) was a Mozambican biologist, poet, novelist, and literary critic whose Portagem (1965/1966) is generally considered the first Mozambican novel.
Orpheu generation
The Orpheu generation (Geração de Orpheu) was the group of young Portuguese poets, led by Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, whose 1915 magazine Orpheu began Portuguese modernism.
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card, born 1951, American science fiction and fantasy author, Mormon, best known for Ender's Game (1985) and Speaker for the Dead (1986), the consecutive Hugo and Nebula double winner, also Alvin Maker, and a figure of 2013 boycott controversy.
Osamu Dazai (太宰治)
Osamu Dazai, born Shuji Tsushima, was a Japanese novelist best known for The Setting Sun (1947) and No Longer Human (1948); he died by suicide in 1948.
Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) was an English man of letters who, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, led a rebellion against the literary establishment and wrote a five-volume autobiography.
Óscar Collazos
Óscar Collazos (1942–2015) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and literary critic known for the urban novel and the 1969 polemic with Cortázar and Vargas Llosa.
Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) was an American novelist of Cuban descent, the first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
Oscar le Pin
Oscar le Pin was a Swiss author nominated once, in 1901, for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1900 work La recherche de l'idéal.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish playwright, poet, and novelist, champion of aestheticism; author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest; imprisoned 1895 after the Queensberry trials.