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Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell (1924–2012), American literary and cultural historian, author of The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), National Book Award winner; also wrote on WWII, American class, and language, distinct from other Fussells.
Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico (1897–1976), American sportswriter turned novelist, author of The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure, the Mrs Harris books, and the Dempsey sparring story; died in Monaco.
Paul Groussac
Paul Groussac (Paul-François Groussac) was a French-born Argentine writer, critic, and historian who directed the National Library of Argentina for 44 years, from 1885 to 1929.
Paul Heyse
Paul Heyse (1830–1914) was a German poet, novelist, and translator based in Munich who received the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote the novella L'Arrabbiata.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American poet and writer, best known for his Black dialect verse and becoming the first African American to achieve an international audience.
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (born 1951) is an Irish poet from Portadown, County Armagh, known for allusive, formally intricate verse and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Paul Nizan
Paul Nizan (Paul-Yves Nizan) was a French writer and philosopher, a friend of Sartre, who broke with the Communist Party in 1939 and died at Dunkirk in 1940.
Paul Raynal
Paul Raynal (1885–1971) was a French dramatist from Narbonne who wrote seven plays premiered between 1920 and 1948, chiefly remembered for Le Tombeau sous l'Arc de Triomphe (1924).
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born 1941, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and travel writer, author of The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast, Peace Corps volunteer expelled from Malawi, Royal Geographical Society Royal Medal recipient, father of Louis Theroux.
Paul Toutain
Paul Toutain, who wrote as Jean Revel, was a French notary in Rouen and fiction writer praised by Octave Mirbeau and nominated for the 1921 Nobel Prize.
Paul Valéry
Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French poet and essayist: author of La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière marin, and Charmes; wrote the daily Cahiers, held the Collège de France Chair of Poetics, and joined the Académie française in 1925 in Anatole France's seat.
Paul van Ostaijen
Paul van Ostaijen (1896–1928) was a Flemish modernist poet who introduced expressionism and dada into Dutch literature through his typographically experimental 1921 Antwerp collection Bezette stad.
Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French lyric poet born at Metz, author of Poèmes saturniens, Fêtes galantes, Romances sans paroles, Sagesse, and Les Poètes maudits; the musical Symbolist precursor, elected Prince des Poètes in 1894.
Paul Vialar
Paul Vialar (1898–1996) was a French novelist and short-story writer, author of roughly eighty works, best known for the hunting novel La Grande Meute (1943).
Paula Fox
Paula Fox (1923–2017), American author of 20 children's books and six adult novels; Newbery Medal 1974 for The Slave Dancer, Hans Christian Andersen Award 1978, memoirist of Borrowed Finery.
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen, born Paula Marie Francis (1939–2008), was an American poet and scholar of Native American literature whose 1986 study The Sacred Hoop founded Indigenous feminist criticism.
Paula Hawkins (author)
Paula Hawkins, Zimbabwe-born British novelist, author of The Girl on the Train (23 million copies), plus Into the Water, A Slow Fire Burning, and The Blue Hour; wrote four earlier novels as Amy Silver.
Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke (1929–2019), was an American novelist whose fiction portrays Black women across the African diaspora; her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), is considered a foundational Black feminist work.
Paulina Chiziane
Paulina Chiziane, born 1955 in Manjacaze, Mozambique, is a Mozambican novelist, the first woman in her country to publish a novel, best known for Niketche (2002).
Pauline Smith
Pauline Smith was a South African novelist and short story writer whose fiction depicts Afrikaner farming life in the Little Karoo, notably The Little Karoo (1925) and The Beadle (1926).
Paulius Širvys
Paulius Širvys, born Povilas Širvys (1920–1979), was a Lithuanian poet and journalist whose lyric poetry on war, homeland, and love made him one of the most popular Lithuanian poets of the Soviet era.
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho, born 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian novelist whose allegorical novel The Alchemist (1988) has sold over 320 million books worldwide.
Paulo Francis
Paulo Francis, pen name of Franz Paul da Matta Heilborn, was a Brazilian journalist and theater critic known for polemical commentary, living in New York from 1971.
Paulo Henriques Britto
Paulo Henriques Britto is a Brazilian poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator of about 120 books from English; born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951, he teaches at PUC-Rio.
Paulo Leminski
Paulo Leminski (1944–1989) was a Brazilian poet, translator, and critic from Curitiba, Paraná, whose work joined the rigor of concrete poetry with popular language and haiku.
Paulo Mendes Campos
Paulo Mendes Campos (1922–1991) was a Brazilian poet, chronicler, and translator from Minas Gerais whose short newspaper pieces made him one of Brazil's recognized masters of the crônica.
Pavel Jozef Šafárik
Pavel Jozef Šafárik, also Pavel Josef Šafařík, was a Slovak philologist, poet, and librarian in Prague who wrote the first systematic histories of Slavic languages and literatures.
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian writer and playwright, born in Prague in 1928, a leading figure of the 1968 Prague Spring who was banned and exiled to Vienna.
Pavel Vilikovský
Pavel Vilikovský (1941–2020) was a Slovak prose writer and translator, a central figure in Slovak postmodern literature and the only two-time winner of the Anasoft litera award.
Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Tychyna (Павло Тичина, 1891–1967) was a Ukrainian modernist poet, translator, and scholar whose 1918 collection Clarinets of the Sun created clarinetism, though he later produced Soviet conformist verse.