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Padmakar
Padmakar (पद्माकर) was a Braj-language poet of the late ritikal period of North Indian court poetry, c. 1753 to c. 1833, regarded as its last major formalist figure.
Padmanath Gohain Baruah
Padmanath Gohain Baruah (1871–1946) was an Assamese poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote the first Assamese novels and served as the Assam Sahitya Sabha's first president.
Pai Hsien-yung
Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇, born 1937) is a Chinese-language writer known for Taipei People, the novel Crystal Boys, and the Youth Edition of the Kun opera The Peony Pavilion.
Paige Lewis (writer)
Paige Lewis, American poet and novelist, author of Space Struck (Sarabande, 2019) and the epic debut novel Canon (Viking, 2026); co-editor of Another Last Call with Kaveh Akbar and curator of Ours Poetica.
Pak Tu-jin
Pak Tu-jin (박두진, pen name Hyesan, 1916–1998) was a Korean poet who co-authored the 1946 anthology Cheongnokjip and was known for nature poetry built on sun and mountain imagery.
Pál Gyulai
Pál Gyulai (Gyulai Pál, 1826–1909) was a Hungarian literary historian, poet, novelist, and critic who shaped Hungarian literary and theatrical taste in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Palladas
Palladas (Παλλαδᾶς) was a Greek epigrammatist and schoolmaster in 4th-century Alexandria, whose roughly 150 surviving epigrams in the Greek Anthology make him a principal late-antique epigrammatist.
Palmach generation
The Palmach generation, also known as Dor Tashach, is the group of Hebrew writers, mostly Palmach veterans, who led Hebrew literature in the 1940s and 1950s.
Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres (born 1947) is a British poet, comedian, and broadcaster of humorous rhymed verse, famous since winning Opportunity Knocks in 1975; the UK's fifth best-selling poet in 1998-99.
Pan Yue (poet)
Pan Yue, also known as Pan An, was a Western Jin poet and official known for his mourning poems for his wife and his legendary good looks.
Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati (born Gherasim Istrate, 1884–1935) was a Romanian writer of Greek paternal origin who wrote chiefly in French; Romain Rolland called him a "Gorki of the Balkans".
Panas Myrny
Panas Myrny, pen name of Panas Yakovych Rudchenko (1849–1920), was a Ukrainian writer, principal author of the novel Do Oxen Low When the Mangers Are Full?
Panchasakha
Panchasakha (Odia: ପଞ୍ଚସଖା, "five friends") is the group of five Odia saint-poets of the 15th and 16th centuries, contemporaries of Chaitanya, who first translated Hindu Sanskrit texts into Odia.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra, born 1969, is an Indian author, essayist, and literary critic known for the novel The Romantics and the histories From the Ruins of Empire and Age of Anger.
Pannalal Patel
Pannalal Patel (1912–1989) was a Gujarati novelist and playwright who won the 1985 Jnanpith Award for Manvini Bhavai, a leading figure of the Gujarati regional novel.
Panteleimon Kulish
Panteleimon Kulish (Пантелеймон Куліш) was a Ukrainian writer, historian, and ethnographer who wrote the first Ukrainian historical novel, Chorna rada, led the first complete Ukrainian Bible translation, and reformed Ukrainian orthography.
Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature, best known for his novel Barabbas (1950).
Paramanand Das
Paramanand Das (1493–1584) was a Brajbhasha devotional poet of the Pushtimarg, one of the eight Ashtachhap poets, known for vatsalya poetry about the child Krishna.
Paranar
Paranar (பரணர்) was a Tamil poet of the Sangam age, one of the three great Old Tamil poets, best known for the fifth Ten of the Pathirruppattu praising the Chera king Chenguttuvan.
Park In-hwan
Park In-hwan (박인환) was a South Korean poet and journalist, a leading post-liberation modernist best known for the poem "The Wooden Horse and the Lady" and the song lyric "When Time Goes By."
Park Kyong-ni
Park Kyong-ni (박경리), born Park Geum-i, was a South Korean novelist whose five-part epic Land, written over 26 years, is regarded as a monumental work of modern Korean literature.
Park Wan-suh
Park Wan-suh (박완서, 1931–2011) was a South Korean novelist who debuted in 1970 with The Naked Tree and wrote about war trauma, division, and women's lives for forty years.
Parveen Shakir
Parveen Shakir (پروین شاکر), 1952 to 1994, was a Pakistani Urdu poet known for a feminine voice in the traditionally male ghazal; her debut collection, Khushbu, won the Adamjee Literary Award.
Parvin E'tesami
Parvin E'tesami (پروین اعتصامی), born Rakhshanda E'tesami, was an Iranian poet (1907–1941) best known for perfecting the monāẓara, a Persian poem cast as a debate between personified beings.
Parviz Natel Khanlari
Parviz Natel Khanlari (پرویز ناتل خانلری) was an Iranian scholar of Persian language and literature, poet, and founding editor of the monthly Sokhan, best known for his three-volume history of Persian.
Pash (poet)
Pash (Punjabi: ਪਾਸ਼), pen name of Avtar Singh Sandhu (1950–1988), was an Indian poet who wrote in Punjabi and is regarded as a major revolutionary poet of twentieth-century Punjabi literature.
Pashko Vasa
Pashko Vasa (1825–1892) was an Albanian writer and Ottoman administrator, a leading ideologue of the Albanian National Renaissance and author of the patriotic poem "O moj Shqypni."
Pat Barker
Pat Barker (Patricia Barker, born 1943) is a British novelist, author of Union Street and the Regeneration trilogy; The Ghost Road won the 1995 Booker Prize, The Eye in the Door the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize.
Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan (Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan, born 1953), American science fiction writer in London, twice winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Synners and Fools, Hugo-winning cyberpunk author.
Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy (Donald Patrick Conroy, 1945–2016), American novelist and memoirist of the South Carolina lowcountry; author of The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, The Lords of Discipline, and Beach Music; Citadel graduate and autobiographical writer.