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Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (Poul William Anderson, 1926–2001), American science fiction and fantasy author, seven-time Hugo and three-time Nebula winner, SFWA Grand Master, author of Tau Zero, Brain Wave, the Technic History, and the Time Patrol series.
Pragati Lekhak Samiti
Pragati Lekhak Samiti, the Progressive Writers' Association, was a Bengali literary organization founded in Dhaka in 1939 that made hunger and poverty the material of literature, dissolving after the 1947 partition.
Pralhad Keshav Atre
Pralhad Keshav Atre (प्रल्हाद केशव अत्रे), known as Acharya Atre, was a Marathi writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker who led the Samyukta Maharashtra movement that created Maharashtra state in 1960.
Pramatha Chaudhuri
Pramatha Chaudhuri, also known as Pramathanath Chaudhuri and writing as Birbal, was a Bengali writer and critic who championed colloquial prose and edited the magazine Sabujpatra, founded in 1914.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Pram, 1925-2006), Indonesian novelist from Blora, author of the Buru Quartet (Bumi Manusia and sequels), imprisoned by the Dutch, Sukarno, and Suharto regimes; 50+ works in 42 languages.
Prasoon Joshi (प्रसून जोशी)
Prasoon Joshi (प्रसून जोशी), born 1971 in Almora, is an Indian poet, lyricist, screenwriter, and McCann advertising executive; CBFC chairperson since 2017 and Prasar Bharati Chairman from 2026, known for Rang De Basanti and Taare Zameen Par.
Pratap Narayan Mishra
Pratap Narayan Mishra (प्रतापनारायण मिश्र, 1856–1894) was a Hindi essayist, poet, and journalist of the Bharatendu era, best remembered as editor of the monthly magazine Brahman.
Pratibha Basu
Pratibha Basu (প্রতিভা বসু) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer, and essayist who was a celebrated child singer in Dhaka before marrying the writer Buddhadeva Bose, and wrote about 45 novels.
Pratibha Ray
Pratibha Ray is an Indian novelist who writes in Odia, best known for the feminist Mahabharata retelling Yajnaseni and for winning the Jnanpith Award in 2011.
Pratibha Satpathy
Pratibha Satpathy is an Indian Odia-language poet, critic, translator, and editor, born in 1945 in Cuttack district, Odisha, who received the Padma Shri in 2025.
Prayag Shukla
Prayag Shukla (प्रयाग शुक्ल), born 1940 in Kolkata, is an Indian Hindi poet, fiction writer, translator, and art critic who has written on the arts for over five decades.
Premchand (धनपत राय श्रीवास्तव)
Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, 1880–1936), also Nawab Rai, Hindi-Urdu novelist and short-story writer of Lamhi near Varanasi; wrote Sevasadan, Nirmala, Rangbhoomi, Gaban, and Godaan; pioneered idealistic realism and rural themes in Hindi fiction.
Premendra Mitra
Premendra Mitra was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, novelist, editor, and film director of the Kallol era, best known for creating the popular character Ghanada.
Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919–1987), Italian Jewish chemist and writer, Auschwitz survivor; author of If This Is a Man, The Truce, and The Periodic Table; deported to Auschwitz III-Monowitz in 1944 and later recognized among the twentieth century's major writers.
Prince Thammathibet
Prince Thammathibet (เจ้าฟ้าธรรมธิเบศร, 1715–1755) was a Siamese prince who served as Viceroy of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and is remembered as its leading late-period poet.
Prince Tomohira
Prince Tomohira (具平親王, 964–1009) was a mid-Heian Japanese imperial prince, the seventh son of Emperor Murakami, celebrated as a poet, calligrapher, and man of letters, and ancestor of the Murakami-Genji court line.
Princess Shikishi
Princess Shikishi (式子内親王, 1149–1201) was a Japanese imperial princess and waka poet, third daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who served as Kamo Saiin and left about 400 poems.
Priyadas
Priyadas (प्रियादास) was an early eighteenth-century Hindi devotional poet best known for the Bhaktirasabodhini, completed in 1712, the earliest and most influential commentary on Nabhadas's Bhaktamal.
Priyādāsa
Priyādāsa (प्रियादास), also written Priyā Dās, was a Vaiṣṇava poet of Vṛndāvana who completed in 1712 the Bhaktirasabodhinī, the earliest known commentary on Nābhādās's Bhaktamāl, in Braj Bhāṣā verse.
Propala hramota
Propala hramota (Пропала грамота, "The Lost Charter") was an avant-garde group of three Kyiv poets, Yurko Pozayak, Viktor Nedostup, and Semen Lyboń, active during perestroika in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Propertius
Sextus Propertius (Sextus Propertius, ca. 50–16 BC), Augustan Latin elegiac poet of four books of Elegies centered on his mistress Cynthia; rival of Tibullus, model for Ovid, self-styled Roman Callimachus.
Prudentius
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348–after 405), Spanish Christian Latin poet, author of Cathemerinon, Peristephanon, Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Contra Symmachum, and the Psychomachia, the first full-scale personification allegory.
Pu Songling
Pu Songling (蒲松龄, 1640–1715) was a Qing dynasty writer from Zichuan, Shandong, best known for Liaozhai zhiyi, a collection of nearly 500 tales of fox spirits and ghosts.
Pudhumaipithan
Pudhumaipithan (புதுமைப்பித்தன்), the pen name of C. Vridhachalam (1906–1948), was an influential Tamil writer who wrote about 100 short stories and brought realism, satire, and modernist technique to Tamil fiction.
Pugalendi
Pugalendi (Pugazhendhi Pulavar) was a medieval Tamil poet, honored as "Pugazhendhi of the venba," who retold the Nala and Damayanti story from the Mahabharata in his Nalavenba.
Punathil Kunjabdulla
Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940–2017) was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and medical doctor from Kerala, best known for Smarakasilakal, which won the Kerala and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Punjabi Sahitya Akademi
The Punjabi Sahitya Akademi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਾਹਿਤ ਅਕਾਦਮੀ) is an association of Punjabi writers based at Punjabi Bhavan in Ludhiana, founded in 1954, that promotes Punjabi literature and book reading.
Purushottam Agrawal
Purushottam Agrawal (born 1955) is an Indian scholar of Hindi literature, critic, and novelist known for his work on the poet Kabir and his concept of vernacular modernity.
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे)
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे), known as Pu La (1919–2000), was a Marathi humorist, playwright, actor, musician, and orator; author of Vyakti ani Valli and Batatyachi Chawl, Sahitya Akademi 1965, Padma Bhushan 1990.
Pushkin studies
Pushkin studies (пушкинистика) is the branch of literary scholarship devoted to the work and biography of Alexander Pushkin, spanning textology, biography, and the study of his works.