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Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, born Pavol Országh, was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and lawyer (1849–1921) whose Realist work laid the foundations of modern Slovak poetry.
Paweł Jasienica
Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar (1909–1970), a Polish historian and Home Army officer whose essay cycle on pre-partition Poland made him one of the most widely read Polish writers on history.
Payrav Sulaymoni
Payrav Sulaymoni (Пайрав Сулаймонӣ) was a Tajik poet born in Bukhara in 1899 whose ghazals blended classical Persian verse with the social themes of Soviet Central Asia.
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck (Sai Zhenzhu, 赛珍珠, 1892–1973), American novelist raised by missionaries in Zhenjiang, China; The Good Earth (1931) won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize, and she became the first American woman Nobel literature laureate in 1938.
Peary Chand Mitra
Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883) was a Bengali writer, librarian, and social reformer of Calcutta whose Alaler Gharer Dulal is counted the first novel in the Bengali language.
Pedro de Oña
Pedro de Oña (1570–c. 1643) was a Chilean-born colonial poet, regarded as the first poet born on Chilean soil, best known for the epic poem Arauco domado, printed in Lima in 1596.
Pedro Mir
Pedro Mir (Pedro Julio Mir Valentín, 1913–2000) was a Dominican poet known for the poem Hay un país en el mundo, declared Poeta Nacional in 1984.
Pedro Nava
Pedro Nava (1903–1984) was a Brazilian physician and writer who practiced rheumatology for about fifty years, then won the Machado de Assis Prize for his six-volume memoirs (1972–1983).
Pedro Salinas
Born in Madrid and dying in Boston, Pedro Salinas (1891–1951) was a Spanish poet, professor, and literary critic of the Generation of '27, noted for his love poetry.
Peelu
Peelu (پیلو) was a seventeenth-century Punjabi poet, remembered as the first to tell a Punjabi folktale in verse through his qissa Mirza Sahiban, the tragic love story of Mirza and Sahiban.
Pen League
The Pen League (al-Rābiṭa al-Qalamiyya) was a literary society founded in New York in April 1920 by Arab émigré writers, including Khalil Gibran and Mikhail Naimy, until Gibran's death in 1931.
Pencho Slaveykov
Pencho Slaveykov (Пенчо П. Славейков, 1866–1912) was a Bulgarian modernist poet, essayist, and translator, son of the writer Petko Slaveykov, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Penelope Delta
Penelope Delta (Πηνελόπη Δέλτα, 1874–1941) was a Greek writer of historical novels for children who wrote in living demotic Greek and helped shape modern Greek children's literature.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald, born Penelope Knox (1916–2000), was an English novelist and biographer who won the 1979 Booker Prize for Offshore and the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower.
Pentti Saarikoski
Pentti Saarikoski (1937–1983) was a Finnish poet, translator, and journalist and a central figure of twentieth-century Finnish literature, famous for his 1962 collection What Really Happens? and for translating Homer, Joyce, and Salinger into Finnish.
Pepetela
Pepetela, pen name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, is an Angolan novelist born in Benguela in 1941, known for Mayombe and the 1997 Camões Prize.
Per Hallström
Per Hallström (1866–1960) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, and translator, remembered as the greatest name in the Swedish short story and a key figure behind the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Per Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist, known as PO Enquist, was a Swedish novelist and playwright, a leading author of his generation who won the August Prize for Livläkarens besök (1999).
Per Petterson
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist, born in Oslo in 1952, whose restrained fiction about family, loss, and memory, including Out Stealing Horses (2003), has won major international prizes.
Per Wahlöö
Per Wahlöö was a Swedish author and journalist who, with his partner Maj Sjöwall, wrote the ten Martin Beck detective novels that laid the foundation for Nordic noir.
Pêr-Jakez Helias
Pêr-Jakez Helias (Pierre-Jakez Hélias, 1914–1995) was a Breton-language author, ethnographer, teacher, and radio broadcaster whose Le Cheval d'orgueil (1975), rewritten by him in French, sold more than 2 million copies.
Percival Everett
Percival Everett (born 1956) is an American novelist, poet, and USC English professor, author of Erasure, The Trees, Dr. No, and James, the 2024 National Book Award and 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning retelling of Huckleberry Finn.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic poet and radical essayist, author of Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, and A Defence of Poetry; expelled from Oxford in 1811, drowned at Viareggio, Italy, in July 1822.
Pere Gimferrer
Pere Gimferrer is a Spanish poet, essayist, and critic born in Barcelona in 1945 who writes in Spanish and Catalan; his breakthrough collection was Arde el mar (1966).
Pero Vaz de Caminha
Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – December 1500) was a Portuguese scribe who sailed with Cabral in 1500 and wrote the letter describing Brazil's discovery.
Persius
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus, 34–62 CE) was a Roman poet who wrote six Stoic verse satires and ranks with Horace and Juvenal among the canonical Roman satirists.
Petar Preradović
Petar Preradović (1818–1872) was a Croatian poet and officer in the Austrian army who ended his career as a general, a central figure of the Illyrian movement alongside Ivan Mažuranić and Stanko Vraz.
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams, full name Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (1919–2017), was a South African-born novelist and journalist whose 1946 novel Mine Boy drew world attention to conditions under apartheid.
Peter Altenberg
Peter Altenberg, pen name of Richard Engländer (1859–1919), was a Jewish-Austrian writer and Vienna bohemian known for very short sketches and prose poems admired by Kafka and Rilke.
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley (1940-2006), American author and journalist, wrote the 1974 bestseller Jaws, co-wrote its Spielberg film adaptation, then became a leading shark and ocean conservation advocate with his wife Wendy.