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Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (凡河内躬恒) was a Japanese poet of the Heian period, one of the four compilers of the Kokin Wakashū (905) and one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
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 Loerke
Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) was a German poet, prose writer, critic, and editor in Berlin whose lyric work ranks among the most influential in twentieth-century German poetry.
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.
Osman Lins
Osman Lins, full name Osman da Costa Lins (1924–1978), was a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist from Pernambuco, best known for the formally experimental 1973 novel Avalovara.
Osman Yusuf Kenadid
Osman Yusuf Kenadid (Cismaan Yuusuf Keenadiid) was a Somali poet, writer, and teacher, son of the Sultan of Hobyo, who invented the Osmanya script for Somali around 1920.
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.
Osvaldo Lamborghini
Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940–1985) was an Argentine writer and visual artist whose corrosive, politically charged fiction, including El fiord, shaped the Argentine literary canon of the 1970s and 1980s.
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (1943–1997) was an Argentine novelist and journalist who wrote in exile after the 1976 military coup, best known for No habrá más penas ni olvido.
Oswald de Andrade
Oswald de Andrade (José Oswald de Sousa de Andrade, 1890–1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and essayist who led Brazilian modernism and wrote the 1928 Manifesto Antropófago.
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (born 1940) is a South African poet and lexicographer whose 1971 debut Sounds of a Cowhide Drum is South Africa's best-selling poetry book.
Ōta Nanpo
Ōta Nanpo (大田南畝, 1749–1823), real name Fukashi and also known as Shokusanjin, was a Japanese poet and shogunal official who led the Tenmei-era kyōka comic-poetry boom in Edo.
Ōtagaki Rengetsu
Ōtagaki Rengetsu (太田垣蓮月, 1791–1875), born Nobu, was a Japanese Buddhist nun, waka poet, and potter of Kyoto known for Rengetsu-yaki, pottery incised with her own poems.
Otfrid of Weissenburg
Otfrid of Weissenburg, also Otfried, was a ninth-century Frankish monk at Weissenburg in Alsace, first named Old High German poet and author of the Evangelienbuch, the earliest long poem in Old High German.
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler (1923–2013), German children's author from Reichenberg/Liberec, wrote classics like Der Räuber Hotzenplotz, Die kleine Hexe, and Krabat; 35 books, over 50 million copies, former teacher, Wehrmacht officer and Soviet POW.
Otokar Březina
Otokar Březina, born Václav Jebavý, was a Czech lyric poet, essayist, and schoolteacher who led Czech symbolism with five poetry collections written between 1895 and 1901.
Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume (大伴坂上郎女) was a Japanese poet of the Nara period whose 84 poems in the Man'yōshū make her its most represented woman poet.
Ōtomo no Tabito
Ōtomo no Tabito, also read Ōtomo no Sukune Tabito (大伴旅人; 665–731), was a Nara-period Japanese court noble and leading Man'yōshū poet whose 730 Plum Blossom Banquet supplied the source of the Reiwa era name.
Oton Župančič
Oton Župančič (1878–1949) was a Slovenian poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator, a leading figure of the Slovenian moderna and, with Ivan Cankar, an authority of his generation.
Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh (born 1981, Boston), also Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh, American novelist of Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona; PEN/Hemingway winner, Booker-shortlisted, known for isolated, bodily candid narrators.
Otto Ernst
Otto Ernst was the pen name of Otto Ernst Schmidt (1862–1926), a Hamburg schoolteacher turned writer whose 1900 comedy Flachsmann als Erzieher satirized the authoritarian German schoolmaster.
Otto Lara Resende
Otto Lara Resende (1922–1992) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 1979.
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.
Otto Maria Carpeaux
Otto Maria Carpeaux, born Otto Karpfen in Vienna in 1900, was an Austrian-born literary critic who fled to Brazil in 1939 and became a leading Brazilian literary critic.
Otto René Castillo
Otto René Castillo was a Guatemalan poet and guerrilla fighter, author of the revolutionary anthem "Vámonos patria a caminar," tortured and killed by the army in 1967.
Ouida
Ouida, pen name of Maria Louise de la Ramée (1839–1908), English Victorian novelist of Under Two Flags and Moths; coined "the New Woman" in her 1894 essay; also a libertarian journalist in Italy.
Ouyang Shan
Ouyang Shan (欧阳山, born Yang Fengqi, 1908–2000) was a Chinese novelist whose five-volume saga Yidai Fengliu, beginning with Sanjia Xiang, made him a representative Guangdong writer.
Ouyang Zi
Ouyang Zi (歐陽子), pen name of Hong Zhihui, is a Taiwanese writer born in 1939, known for psychologically intense 1960s short fiction and for co-founding the magazine Modern Literature.
Ovid
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), Roman poet of the Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses, Fasti, and exile poetry (Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto); banished by Augustus in 8 CE to Tomis, where he died; major influence on later European literature and art.
Ovid Densusianu
Ovid Densusianu (Ovid Densușianu) was a Romanian philologist, linguist, and poet, a professor at the University of Bucharest who founded the Bucharest linguistic school and promoted symbolism.