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Ovídio Martins
Ovídio de Sousa Martins (1928–1999) was a Cape Verdean poet and journalist who wrote in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole, known for the anticolonial poem "Anti-evasão" (1962).
Owen King
Owen King (Owen Philip King, born 1979, Maine) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter, youngest son of Stephen and Tabitha King; author of Double Feature and The Curator, coauthor of Sleeping Beauties (2017), and writer-producer on Paramount+'s The Stand.
Özdemir Asaf
Özdemir Asaf (real name Halit Özdemir Arun; 1923, Ankara–1981, Istanbul) was a Turkish poet, translator, and publisher best known for short, paradoxical verses and the book Yalnızlık Paylaşılmaz (1978).
P Moe Nin
P Moe Nin (ပီမိုးနင်း, 1883–1940) was a Burmese writer and journalist who pioneered modern Burmese prose; his novel Nay Nyo Nyo appeared in 1920, and he co-founded the daily Myanma Alin.
P. Bhaskaran
P. Bhaskaran (പി. ഭാസ്കരൻ), born Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran, was an Indian Malayalam poet and film-song lyricist known as "Bhaskaran Master" who wrote over 1,500 songs and co-directed Neelakuyil (1954).
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.
P. D. Eastman
P. D. Eastman, born Philip Dey Eastman, was an American children's book author and illustrator whose books, including Go, Dog. Go!, have sold more than fifty million copies.
P. D. James
P. D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James White, 1920-2014), British crime novelist, creator of poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, life peer Baroness James of Holland Park, author of The Children of Men and Death Comes to Pemberley.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse, born Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, was an English comic novelist (1881–1975) who created Jeeves and Bertie Wooster and wrote more than seventy novels and hundreds of short stories.
P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke (Patrick Jake O'Rourke, 1947 to 2022) was an American political satirist and journalist who wrote more than twenty books, best known for Parliament of Whores, a comic explanation of the United States government.
P. K. Balakrishnan
P. K. Balakrishnan (പി. കെ. ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ; 1926–1991) was a Malayalam writer and journalist known for the epic novel Ini Njan Urangatte and studies of Kerala's caste history.
P. K. Page
P. K. Page, born Patricia Kathleen Page, was a Canadian poet and visual artist who won the 1954 Governor General's Award for poetry for The Metal and the Flower.
P. K. Parameswaran Nair
P. K. Parameswaran Nair (1903–1988) was a Malayalam literary historian, critic, and biographer whose Malayala Sahitya Charitram, written for the Sahitya Akademi, became the standard one-volume history of Malayalam literature.
P. Kesavadev
P. Kesavadev, born Kesava Pillai (1904–1983), was a Malayalam novelist, short-story writer, and social reformer who pioneered social realism in Kerala fiction, best known for Odayil Ninnu (1942) and winner of the 1964 Sahitya Akademi Award.
P. Kunhiraman Nair
P. Kunhiraman Nair, known to Malayalam readers as Mahakavi P, was an Indian poet writing in Malayalam whose romantic verse celebrated Kerala's natural beauty; his long poem Kaliyachan won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1959.
P. L. Travers
P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, 1899–1996), Australian-born British author of Mary Poppins (1934) and seven sequels; resisted Disney's 1964 film adaptation, which made her wealthy but dissatisfied.
P. Mustapää
P. Mustapää was the pen name of Martti Haavio (1899–1973), a Finnish poet, folklorist, and professor at the University of Helsinki who introduced free-rhythm modernism into Finnish lyric poetry.
P. T. Mtuze
P. T. Mtuze (Peter Tshobisa Mtuze) was a South African writer in isiXhosa, a playwright, novelist, poet, translator, priest, and academic who translated Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom.
P. V. Thampi
P. V. Thampi (പി.വി. തമ്പി) was a Malayalam novelist from Kerala, best known for the tantric horror novel Krishnapparunthu (1984), which was adapted into a film.
P. Valsala
P. Valsala (Malayalam: പി. വത്സല; 1938–2023) was an Indian Malayalam novelist and short story writer whose fiction centered on the Adivasi people of Wayanad, women, and nature.
Paal Brekke
Paal Brekke (1923–1993) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, and translator who introduced high modernism into Norwegian poetry in the 1940s and 1950s and defended it in the tungetaledebatten.
Paavo Haavikko
Paavo Haavikko (1931–2008) was a Finnish poet, writer, and publisher, a central figure of the 1950s modernist breakthrough in Finnish poetry who won the Neustadt International Prize in 1984.
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.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Pablo Antonio Cuadra Cardenal (1912–2002), known as PAC, was a Nicaraguan poet and essayist who co-founded the vanguardia movement, wrote about Nicaraguan identity, and led the Nicaraguan Academy of Letters.
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), born Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, Chilean poet-diplomat and 1971 Nobel laureate; author of Veinte poemas de amor, Residencia en la tierra, and Canto general; his 1973 death remains under investigation.
Pablo Palacio
Pablo Palacio (1906–1947) was an Ecuadorian avant-garde writer and lawyer whose brief fiction, including Débora and Vida del ahorcado, became among the most studied in Ecuadorian letters.
Pacuvius
Marcus Pacuvius (c. 220–130 BC) was a Roman tragic dramatist and painter from Brundisium, the nephew of Ennius and, by Cicero's judgment, Rome's greatest tragedian.
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (Sidney Chayefsky, 1923–1981), American playwright and screenwriter of television's Golden Age; wrote Marty, The Hospital, and Network, winning three solo Best Screenplay Oscars.
Padethayaza
Padethayaza (ပဒေသရာဇ်) was a Burmese poet, playwright, and court minister of the Nyaungyan period, remembered for writing Maniket, the first secular play in Burmese literature, and for verse about ordinary working people.
Padma Sachdev
Padma Sachdev (1940–2021) was an Indian poet and novelist who wrote in Dogri and Hindi, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971 and the Padma Shri in 2001.