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Phạm Đình Hổ
Phạm Đình Hổ (范廷琥, 1768–1839) was a Vietnamese scholar and poet known for the Chinese-language essay collection Vũ trung tùy bút, written during the late Lê and early Nguyễn periods.
Phạm Duy Tốn
Phạm Duy Tốn (1883–1924) was a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and translator who pioneered the modern short story; his Sống chết mặc bay (1918) is treated as the first of its kind.
Phạm Quỳnh
Phạm Quỳnh, who wrote as Thượng Chi, was a Vietnamese scholar and journalist who edited Nam Phong tạp chí from 1917 and served as a minister at the Huế court.
Phạm Tiến Duật
Phạm Tiến Duật (1941–2007) was a Vietnamese poet known for his verse about the Trường Sơn road, later called the Ho Chi Minh Trail, winning the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 2012.
Phanishwar Nath Renu
Phanishwar Nath Renu (फणीश्वरनाथ रेणु, 1921–1977), born Phanishwarnath Mandal, was an Indian Hindi writer whose novel Maila Anchal founded the regional novel genre in Hindi literature.
Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo (1941-2026), American novelist and journalist, Marine lieutenant in early Vietnam, Chicago Tribune Pulitzer co-winner, author of the memoir A Rumor of War and Horn of Africa.
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), American science fiction author of 44 novels and 121 short stories including The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Hugo winner whose reality-questioning fiction inspired Blade Runner and the Philip K. Dick Award.
Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr (1956–2018), British novelist, creator of the Bernie Gunther historical detective series beginning with March Violets (1989) and the Berlin Noir trilogy; also wrote Gridiron and Children of the Lamp as P. B. Kerr.
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922–1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian at Hull from 1955, known for collections like The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows.
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman (born 1946, Norwich) is the English author of His Dark Materials (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) and The Book of Dust trilogy, winner of the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year, knighted in 2019.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth (1933-2018), American novelist of Newark, New Jersey; author of Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, and the American trilogy; National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and two National Medals winner.
Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier, soldier, and critic who wrote Astrophil and Stella, Arcadia, and The Defence of Poesy before dying of a wound at Zutphen in 1586.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), was a British Whig politician, diplomat, and wit best known for Letters to His Son, an influential conduct book published after his death.
Philip Wylie
Philip Gordon Wylie (1902–1971), American novelist and social critic; wrote Gladiator (1930), When Worlds Collide (1933, with Edwin Balmer), and Generation of Vipers (1942), where he coined "Momism."
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory (born 1954, Nairobi) is a British historical novelist, author of Wideacre, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The White Queen, CBE 2021, founder of Gardens for The Gambia, and author of Normal Women.
Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers, pen name of Philippe Joyaux (1936-2023), French novelist, critic, and founder-leader of the avant-garde review Tel Quel (1960-1982) and L'Infini (1983); experimental novels like Paradis, then the 1983 bestseller Femmes; husband of Julia Kristeva.
Philitas of Cos
Philitas of Cos (Philetas, c. 340 – c. 285 BC) was a Greek poet and scholar who tutored the future Ptolemy II and wrote the glossary Ataktoi glossai.
Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Phillip Kennedy Johnson (born 1970) is an American comic book writer and Army Field Band trumpeter known for DC's Superman/Action Comics Warworld Saga, Marvel's Alien and Incredible Hulk, The Last God, and BOOM!'s Last Sons of America.
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Wheatley Peters, c. 1753-1784), enslaved in Boston, published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773), the first book of poetry by an African American; first published at 14, patronized by the Countess of Huntingdon.
Philostratus
Philostratus (Lucius Flavius Philostratus, c. 170 – c. 247 CE) was an Athenian Greek sophist and writer, best known for the Lives of the Sophists and the Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Pi Rixiu
Pi Rixiu (皮日休), courtesy name Ximei, was a late Tang dynasty poet and essayist from Xiangyang, Hubei, known for socially critical verse and his exchange poetry with Lu Guimeng.
Pia Tafdrup
Pia Tafdrup is a Danish poet and member of the Danish Academy, born in Copenhagen in 1952, who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1999.
Piedad Bonnett
Piedad Bonnett (Piedad Bonnet Vélez) is a Colombian poet, novelist, playwright, and critic born in 1951 in Amalfi, Antioquia, who won the 2024 Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), Italian poet, novelist, essayist, and film director of Accattone, Il vangelo secondo Matteo, and Salò; Friulian-language poet, polemicist against consumerism, murdered at Ostia in an officially contested case.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown, American science fiction author of the Red Rising Saga (Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, Iron Gold, Dark Age, Light Bringer), the Sons of Ares prequel comics, and the announced Book of Lorn; debut published 2014.
Piero Boitani
Piero Boitani, born in Rome in 1947, is an Italian literary critic and emeritus professor of Comparative Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on Chaucer, Dante, and Ulysses.
Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton (1920–2004) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and popular historian who wrote about 50 books on Canadian history and won three Governor General's Awards.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803) was a French artillery officer and writer best known for Les Liaisons dangereuses, the 1782 epistolary novel of seduction and scandal.
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) was a French dramatist and lawyer from Rouen whose Le Cid (1637) provoked France's most famous literary quarrel and founded classical French theater.
Pierre Emmanuel
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël-Jean Mathieu (1916–1984), was a French poet of Christian inspiration whose Resistance verse was learned by heart; he joined the Académie française in 1968.