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- 21: Luis Royo
- 02: Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
- 02: Emile Zola (1840-1902)
- 02: Roger (Joseph) Zelazny (1937-1995) - wrote also as Harrison Denmark
- 02: Zhang Xianliang (1936-) - also rendered as Chang Hsien-Liang
- 02: Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937) - name also written Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin
- 02: Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) - original name Marguerite de Crayencour
- 02: Tauno Yliruusi (1927-1994)
- 02: Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-) - name also spelled Jevgeni Jevtusenko; Evgenii Evtushenko
- 02: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- 02: Muhammad Yamin (1903-1962)
- 02: Zara Yacob (1592-1692)
- 02: Xiao Hong (1911 - 1942) - also rendered as Hsiao Hung; pseudonym of Zhang Naiying
- 02: Xenophon (c.431 - c.355 B.C.)
- 02: John Wyndham (1903-1969)
- 02: Hella Maria Wuolijoki (1886-1954) - original surname Murrik - wrote also as Juhani Tervapää
- 02: Richard (Nathaniel) Wright (1908-1960)
- 02: Judith Wright (1915-2000)
- 02: Herman Wouk (1915-)
- 02: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- 02: Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
- 02: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) - in full Adeline Virginia Woolf, original surname Stephen
- 02: Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945)
- 02: Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse (1881-1975)
- 02: Owen Wister (1860-1938)
- 02: Johann Joachim Winkelmann (1717-1768)
- 02: Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson (1913-1991)
- 02: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) - original name Thomas Lanier Williams
- 02: Thornton (Niven) Wilder (1897-1975)
- 02: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900)
- 02: Elie Wiesel (1928-)
- 02: Phyllis A(yame) Whitney (1903-)
- 02: Walt(er) Whitman (1819-1892)
- 02: Patrick (Victor Martindale) White (1912-1990)
- 02: E(lwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985)
- 02: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) - original surname Jones
- 02: Donald E. Westlake (1933-)
- 02: Edvard (Alexander) Westermarck (1862-1939)
- 02: Rebecca West (1892-1983) - in full Dame Rebecca West, pseudonym of Cicily Isabel Andrews, original surname Fairfield
- 02: Nathanael West (1903-1940) - original name Nathan Weinstein (until 1926)
- 02: Morris (Langlo) West (1916-1999) - wrote also under the pseudonyms Michael East and Julian Morris
- 02: Hendrik (Arnold) Wergeland (1808-1845)
- 02: Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
- 02: Albert Wendt (1939-)
- 02: H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells (1866-1946)
- 02: Simone Weil (1909-1943)
- 02: Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)
- 02: J(osef) J(ulius) Wecksell (1838 - 1907)
- 02: Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
- 02: Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
- 02: Andy Warhol (1927-1987) - originally Andrew Warhola
- 02: Wang Anyi (1954-) - written also: Wang An-yi
- 02: Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
- 02: Mika (Toimi) Waltari (1908-1979) - pseudonyms Leo Arne, Kristian Korppi, Nauticus, Leo Rainio, M. Ritvala
- 02: Raimo S. Wallin
- 02: G(eorg) A(ugust) Wallin (1811-1852) - Yrjö Aukusti Wallin - alias Abd al-Wali
- 02: Irving Wallace (1916-1990)
- 02: Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) - in full Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
- 02: Derek (Alton) Walcott (1930-)
- 02: Per Wahlöö (1926-1975)
- 02: Kurt Vonnegut (1922-)
- 02: Georg Henrik von Wright (1916-2003)
- 02: Voltaire (1694-1778) - pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet
- 02: Vitruvius (fl. 46-30 B.C.)
- 02: Vergilius (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.) - in English Virgil or Vergil, Latin in full Publius Vergilius Maro
- 02: Lauri (Sakari) Viljanen (1900-1984)
- 02: Lauri (Arvi) Viita (1916-1965)
- 02: Comte Alfred Victor de Vigny (1797-1863)
- 02: Gore (Eugene Luther) Vidal (1925-) - Original name Eugene Luther Vidal - Detective novels under the pseudonym Edgar Box
- 02: Boris Vian (1920-1959)
- 02: Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970)
- 02: Jules Verne (1828-1905)
- 02: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
- 02: Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635) - in full Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio; byname Fénix de los Ingenios
- 02: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
- 02: Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-)
- 02: Laurens van der Post (1906-1996)
- 02: Valentin (1896 - 1977) - real name Henrik Ensio Rislakki, surname until 1934 Svanberg - pseudonym Henrik Vaanila
- 02: Katri Vala (1901-1944) - Karin Alice Heikel
- 02: Paul Valéry (1871-1945) - in full Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry
- 02: Arja Uusitalo (1951-)
- 02: Iris Uurto (1905 - 1994) - originally Lyyli Ester Mielonen
- 02: Leon (Marcus ) Uris (1924-2003)
- 02: Arthur Upfield (1890*-1964)
- 02: John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-)
- 02: Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)
- 02: Marie Under (1883 - 1980)
- 02: Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936)
- 02: Valev Uibopuu (1913-1997)
- 02: Aale Tynni (1913-1997) - in full Aale Maria Tynni-Haavio
- 02: Anne Tyler (1941-)
- 02: Mark Twain (1835-1910) - pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- 02: Amos Tutuola (1920-1997)
- 02: Arvo (Albin) Turtiainen (1904-1980)
- 02: (Kaarlo) Ilmari Turja (1901 - 1998)
- 02: Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
- 02: Arto Tuovinen (1933-1968)
- 02: Göran Tunström (1937-2000)
- 02: Mao Tun (1896-1981) - ALSO MAO DUN - Pseudonym of Shen Yan-bing, original name Shen Dehong
- 02: Friedebert Tuglas (1886-1971) - surname until 1923 MIKHELSON
- 02: Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) - original surname Wertheim
- 02: Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) - also Marina Cvetaeva, Marina Tsvetayeva
- 02: Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov - b. Jan. 17, 1860 (Jan. 29, New Style); d. July 1/2, 1904 (July 14/15, New Style)
- 02: Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976)
- 01: Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) - Leon Trotski, pseudonym of Leib or Lev Davidovich Bronstein
- 01: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
- 01: Elleston Trevor (1920-95) - born Trevor Dudley Smith - wrote also as Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, T. Dudley-Smith, Roger Fitzalan, Adam Hall, Howard North, Simon Rattray, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, Lesley Stone
- 01: Stieg Trenter (1914-1967) - original name Stig Johansson
- 01: Lawrence Treat (1903-1998) - pseudomym of Lawrence Arthur Goldstone
- 01: B. Traven (1882?-1969) - names associated with Traven: Ret Marut, Hal Croves, Traven Torsvan, Bruno Traven, Arnold, Barker, Feige, Kraus, Lainger, Wienecke and Ziegelbrenner
- 01: Tomas Tranströmer (1931-)
- 01: Michel Tournier (1924-)
- 01: Zacharias Topelius (1818 - 1898)
- 01: Lev Tolstoi - in full Lev Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy - born Aug. 28, 1828 (Sept. 9, New Style); d. Nov. 7, 1910 (Nov. 20, New Style)
- 01: Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1883-1945)
- 01: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)
- 01: Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967)
- 01: (Georg) Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984)
- 01: James (Grover) Thurber (1894-1961)
- 01: Edwin Thumboo (b. 1933)
- 01: Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862)
- 01: Jim Thompson (1906-1977)
- 01: Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- 01: Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
- 01: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) - Pseudonyms Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, George Savage FitzBoodle
- 01: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) - 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater
- 01: Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
- 01: Viljo (William) Tarkiainen (1879 - 1951) - also wrote as -nen, V.T.
- 01: Nyrki Tapiovaara (1911-1940)
- 01: Sony Labou Tansi (1947-1995)
- 01: Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) - written also: Jun’ichiro
- 01: Anton Tammsaare (1878-1940) - originally Anton Hansen
- 01: Maila Talvio (1871-1951) - pseudonym for Maria Mikkola - original surname Winter
- 01: Marton Taiga (1907-1969) - Real name: Martti Erik Hjalmar Löfberg. - Pseudonyms: M. Levä, L. Martin, Margot Lagarto, Erkki Ruoste, Bones, Ali-Baba, Asinus Minor, Maija Laurinmaa, etc.
- 01: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
- 01: Antonio Tabucchi (1943-)
- 01: Wislawa Szymborska (1923-)
- 01: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - pseudonyms: Isaac Bickerstaff, A Dissenter, A Person of Qauality, A Person of Honour, M.B. Drapier, T.R.D.J.S.D.O.P.I.I. (The Reverend Doctor Jonathan Switft, Dean of Partick’s in Ireland)
- 01: Italo Svevo (1861-1928) - pseud. of Ettore Schmitz
- 01: Emanuel von Swedenborg (1688-1772)
- 01: Anni Swan (1875-1958) - Anni Emilia Manninen - used also pen name A.S.
- 01: Efua Theodora Sutherland (née Efua Theodora Morgue) 1924-1996
- 01: Kari (Yrjänä) Suomalainen (1920-1998) - pseudonym Kari
- 01: Naguib Surur (1932-1978)
- 01: René Sully-Prudhomme (1839-1907) - original name RENÉ FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME
- 01: Eugène Sue (1804-1857) - real name Marie-Joseph Sue
- 01: Snorri Sturluson (born 1179- died 22.9.1241)
- 01: Arkady Strugatski (1925-1991)
- 01: (Johan) August Strindberg (1849-1912)
- 01: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - original name Harriet Elisabeth Beecher
- 01: Rex Stout (1886-1975)
- 01: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- 01: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
- 01: Sam Stephens (1979-)
- 01: Stendhal (1783-1842) - Pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle
- 01: John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
- 01: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
- 01: Christina Stead (1902-1983)
- 01: Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) - originally John Rowlands
- 01: Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein (1766-1817)
- 01: Carl (Friedrich Georg) Spitteler (1845-1924) - pseudonym Carl Felix Tandem
- 01: Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) - pseudonym of Frank Morrison Spillane
- 01: Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (1880-1936)
- 01: Wole Soyinka (1934-) - in full Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
- 01: Villy Sørensen (1929-2002)
- 01: Marin Sorescu (1936-1996)
- 01: Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
- 01: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-)
- 01: Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927) - pseud. of Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov
- 01: Edith Södergran (1892 - 1923)
- 01: Maj Sjöwall (1935-)
- 01: Frank G(ill) Slaughter (1908-2001) - pseudonym "C.V. Terry"
- 01: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) - pseudonym Warshofsky
- 01: Elvi Sinervo (1912-1986) - wrote also as Aulikki Prinkki - full name Elvi Aulikki Sinervo-Ryömä
- 01: Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968 )
- 01: Claude Simon (1913-2005)
- 01: Georges (Joseph Christian) Simenon (1903-1989)
- 01: Alan Sillitoe (1928-)
- 01: Frans Emil Sillanpää (1888-1964)
- 01: Juhani Siljo (1888-1918) - original surname Sjögren
- 01: (Otto) Olavi Siippainen (1915-1963)
- 01: Henry(k) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) - psydonym Litwos
- 01: Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942)
- 01: Nevil Shute (1899-1960) - original name Nevil Shute Norway
- 01: Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov (1905-1984) - born May 11, 1905 (May 24, New Style)
- 01: Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) - pseudonym of Masaoka Tsunenori
- 01: Sam Shepard (1943-) - in full Samuel Shepard Rogers
- 01: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- 01: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) - original surname Godwin
- 01: Hanan al-Shaykh (1945-)
- 01: Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) - original name Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff
- 01: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- 01: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- 01: Shahnon Ahmad (1933-)
- 01: Emil Nestor Setälä (1864 - 1935)
- 01: Léopold (Sédar) Senghor (1906-2001)
- 01: Sembène Ousmane (1923-)
- 01: Hubert Selby Jr (1928-2004)
- 01: Lasana M. Sekou (b. 1959)
- 01: Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986)
- 01: Anna Seghers (1900-1983) - original name Netty Radványi, née Reiling
- 01: George Seferis (1900-1971) - original name Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades
- 01: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- 01: Paul (Mark) Scott (1920-1978)
- 01: Bruno Schulz (1892-1942)
- 01: BUDD SCHULBERG
- 01: Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)
- 01: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- 01: Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)
- 01: (Karl Wilhelm) Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829)
- 01: Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
- 01: Jack (Warner) Schaefer (1907-1991)
- 01: Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
- 01: Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers (1893-1957)
- 01: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- 01: Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) - born Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak
- 01: William Saroyan (1908-1981)
- 01: Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995)
- 01: Kaarlo Sarkia (1902-1945)
- 01: Mauri Sariola (1924-1985) - wrote also as Esko Laukko
- 01: José Saramago (1922-)
- 01: Sappho (fl. c. 610-c.580 B.C.)
- 01: George Santayana - in full Jorge Agustín Nicolás de Santayana (1863-1952)
- 01: Aksel Sandemose (1899-1965)
- 01: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
- 01: George Sand (1804-1876) - Pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin
- 01: J(erome D(avid) Salinger (1919-)
- 01: Saki (1870-1916) - pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro
- 01: Comte de Saint-Germain (?-1784)
- 01: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) - in full Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry
- 01: Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) - pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez
- 01: Sa’di (c. 1213-1292)
- 01: Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) - byname of Donatien Alphonse François, count de Sade
- 01: Vita (Victoria Mary) Sackville-West (1892-1962)
- 01: Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)
- 01: Pentti Saarikoski (1937-1983) - wrote also humorous columns under the name ‘Nenä’ (the nose)
- 01: Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931) - name also written: Nawal al-Sa’dawi
- 01: Douglas Rutherford (1914-1988) - Pseudonym for James Douglas Rutherford McConnell
- 01: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl (1872-1970)
- 01: Salman Rushdie (1947-)
- 01: (ALFRED) DAMON RUNYON (1884-1946) - original surname Runyan
- 01: Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)
- 01: Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 - 1273)
- 01: Juan Rulfo (1918-1986)
- 01: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
- 01: Philip (Milton) Roth (1933-)
- 01: Joseph Roth (1894-1939)
- 01: Henry Roth (1906-1995)
- 01: Edmond (Eugège Alexix) Rostand (1868-1918)
- 01: D(ante) G(abriel) Rossetti (1828-1882) - original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
- 01: Christina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830-1894) - Pseydonym Ellen Alleyne
- 01: Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
- 01: Francisco de Rojas Zorilla (1607-1648)
- 01: Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) - original name ARTHUR HENRY SARSFIELD WARD - wrote also as Michael Furey
- 01: Christiane Rochefort (1917-1998)
- 01: Mazo de la Roche (1879-1961)
- 01: Harold Robbins (1916-1997) - originally Harold Rubin, also: Frank Kane
- 01: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-)
- 01: Paavo Rintala (1930-1999)
- 01: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
- 01: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
- 01: Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003)
- 01: Jean Rhys (1890-1979) - pseudonym of Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams
- 01: Wladyslaw Reymont (1867-1925) - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Rejment
- 01: Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)
- 01: Pertti Reponen (1941-1998) - pseudonym Alan Dorkin
- 01: Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
- 01: Georges Remi, alias Hergé (1907-1983)
- 01: Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) - pseudonym for Erich Paul Remark
- 01: Erkki (Vilho Kalevi) Rekimies (1923-1995)
- 01: John (Silas) Reed (1887-1920)
- 01: Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968)
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- 30: Raja Rao (1908-2006)
- 30: Ayn Rand (1905-1982) - original name Alice (in some sources Alissa) Rosenbaum
- 30: Povel Ramel (1922-)
- 30: Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944)
- 30: Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923)
- 30: Jean Racine (1639-1699)
- 30: François Rabelais 1484(?)-1553(?)
- 30: Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo (1901/1902?-1904?-1937)
- 30: Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937)
- 30: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
- 30: Raymond Queneau (1903-1976)
- 30: Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
- 30: Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998), also: Nizar Kabbani
- 30: Pythagoras (570?-495? B.C.)
- 30: Mario Puzo (1920-1999)
- 30: Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin (1799-1837)
- 30: Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)
- 30: Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
- 30: Marcel (Valentin-Louis-George-Eugene) Proust (1871-1922)
- 30: V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett (1900-1997)
- 30: J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley (1894-1984)
- 30: Hugo Pratt (1927-1995)
- 30: Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006)
- 30: Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972)
- 30: Dennis Potter (1935-1994)
- 30: (Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
- 30: Chaim Potok (1929-2002) - original name Herman Harold Potok
- 30: Raymond (William) Postgate (1896-1971)
- 30: Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
- 30: Gene Stratton Porter (1863-1924)
- 30: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- 30: Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943)
- 30: Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999)
- 30: Lauri Pohjanpää (1889-1962) - surname until 1906 Nordqvist
- 30: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- 30: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) - pseudonym Victoria Lucas
- 30: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
- 30: Harold Pinter (1930-)
- 30: Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983)
- 30: Joel Pettersson (1892-1937)
- 30: Gaius Petronius Arbiter (d. AD 66?)
- 30: Petrarch (1304-1374) - in full Francesco Petrarca
- 30: Sándor Petõfi (1823-1849?)
- 30: Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - pseudonyms Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis
- 30: Arhippa Perttunen - Karjalan suurin runonlaulaja (1762 - 1841)
- 30: Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) - Pseudonym for Marie-René-Auguste-Aléxis Saint-Léger
- 30: Georges Perec (1936-1982)
- 30: Jarno (Elisar) Pennanen (1906-1969)
- 30: Eila Pennanen (1916 - 1994)
- 30: Juhani Peltonen (1941 - 1998)
- 30: Toivo (Richard) Pekkanen (1902-1957)
- 30: Charles Péguy (1873-1914) - pseudonyms: Charles Pierre Baudouin, Pierre Deloire
- 30: Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
- 30: Okot p’Bitek (1931-1982)
- 30: Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
- 30: Milorad Pavic (1929-)
- 30: Alan (Stewart) Paton (1903-1988)
- 30: Boris (Leonidovich) Pasternak (1890-1960)
- 30: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)
- 30: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- 30: Pertti Pasanen (1930-2001)
- 30: Ralf (Thomas Friedrich) Parland (1914-1995)
- 30: Oscar Parland (1912 - 1997)
- 30: Henry Parland (1908-1930)
- 30: Robert B(rown) Parker (1932-)
- 30: Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) - original surname Rothschild
- 30: Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541) - original name Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim - Note: in some sources the birth date is November 10, 1493.
- 30: Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
- 30: Vera (Fëdorovna) Panova (1905-1973)
- 30: Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)
- 30: Leif Panduro (1923-1977)
- 30: Orhan Pamuk (1952-)
- 30: Jacob Paludan (1896-1975)
- 30: Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)
- 30: Olavi (Lauri) Paavolainen (1903-1964)
- 30: Kalle Päätalo (1919-2000)
- 30: Ovidius (43 BC-17 AD) - OVID - in full Publius Ovidius Naso
- 30: Outsider (1904-1961) - Real name Aarne Viktor Laitinen until 1935. Other pseudonyms: Henrik Horna, Viktor Mario, William B. Harrow, Rigor Morton, Charles Snyder, Rautamies, Jack B. Murphy etc. Pseudonym Outsider, under which Haapakoski wrote most of his works, was used first time in 1933 in the magazine Lukemista kaikille
- 30: Ouologuem, Yambo (1940- ) - pseudonym Utto Rodolph
- 30: George Orwell (1903-1950) - pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair
- 30: José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1956)
- 30: Aarne (Alarik) Orjatsalo (1883-1941)
- 30: Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) - Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy
- 30: Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994)
- 30: L. Onerva (1882 - 1972) - Hilja Onerva Madetoja, née Lehtinen
- 30: Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill (1888-1953)
- 30: Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)
- 30: Hagar Olsson (1893-1978)
- 30: Olli (1889-1967) - pseudonym for Väinö Nuorteva - surname until 1919 Nyberg
- 30: Stephen Oliver
- 30: Yury (Karlovich) Olesha (1899 - 1960) - also: Iurii Karlovich Olesha - born Feb. 19 (March 3, New Style), 1899 - died May 10, 1960
- 30: Ben Okri (1959- )
- 30: Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967)
- 30: Kenzaburo Oe (1935-)
- 30: Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
- 30: Edna O’Brien (1932-)
- 30: Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)
- 30: Flora Nwapa (1931-1993)
- 30: Severi Nuormaa (1865-1924) - surname until 1906 Nyman
- 30: Gustaf von Numers (1848-1913)
- 30: Novalis (1772-1801) - PSEUDONYM FOR FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, BARON VON HARDENBERG
- 30: Nostradamus (1503-1566) - true name Michel de Notredame or Nostredame
- 30: Charles (Bernard) Nordhoff ( 1887-1947)
- 30: Baron Nils A(dolf) E(rik) Nordenskiöld (1832-1901)
- 30: Cees Nooteboom (b. 1933)
- 30: Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
- 29: Peter Nilson (1937-1998)
- 29: Hannu Niklander (1951- )
- 29: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- 29: Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1938-) - formerly known as James Ngugi
- 29: Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) - pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie
- 29: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) - Original name Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
- 29: Jan Neruda (1834-1891)
- 29: Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)
- 29: Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul (1932-)
- 29: Péter Nádas (1942-)
- 29: Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) - pen name Vladimir Sirin
- 29: Agnar Mykle (1915-1994)
- 29: P. Mustapää (1899 - 1973) - real name Martti Haavio
- 29: Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
- 29: Robert Edler von Musil (1880-1942)
- 29: Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) - in full Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, married name Mrs. J.O. Bailey
- 29: Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (1857-1949) - used the pen name Puck Munthe
- 29: Alice Munro (1931-)
- 29: Kaj Munk (1898-1944) - Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen
- 29: Abdelrahman Munif (1933- ) - also spelled ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif
- 29: Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794) & Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron (Freiherr) von Münchhausen (1720-1797)
- 29: MULTATULI (1820-1887) - pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker - (Multatuli - in Latin "I have suffered much")
- 29: Timo K. Mukka (1944-1973)
- 29: Slawomir Mrozek (b. 1930)
- 29: Toni Morrison (1931-) - originally Chloe Anthony Wofford
- 29: James Douglas ‘Jim’ Morrison (1943-1971)
- 29: William Morris (1834-1896)
- 29: Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) - pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle
- 29: Elsa Morante (1918-1985)
- 29: Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
- 29: Marianne (Craig) Moore (1887-1972)
- 29: L(ucy) M(aud) Montgomery (1874-1942)
- 28: Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
- 28: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- 28: Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)
- 28: Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) - Pseudonym of Ferenc Neumann
- 28: Molière (1622-1673) - pseudonym of JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN
- 28: Carl Arthur Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973)
- 28: Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
- 28: Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) - pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
- 28: Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914)
- 28: Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Pseudonym for Hiraoka Kimitake
- 28: John Milton (1608-1674)
- 28: Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)
- 28: A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (1882-1956)
- 28: Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923 - 1996)
- 28: Henry (Valentine) Miller (1891-1980)
- 28: Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
- 28: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
- 28: Margaret Ellis Millar (1915-1994) - née Sturm
- 28: Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
- 28: James A(lbert) Michener (1907-1997)
- 28: Henri Michaux (1899-1984)
- 28: Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870)
- 28: Lennart Meri (1929-2006)
- 28: H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956)
- 28: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- 28: Cecília Benevides Meireles (1901-1964)
- 28: Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
- 28: (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
- 28: William P(eter) McGivern (1922-1982) - also wrote as Bill Peters
- 28: (Lula) Carson McCullers (1917-1967) - original name Lula Carson Smith
- 28: Horace McCoy (1897-1955)
- 28: Helen McCloy (1904-1994) - pseudonym Helen Clarkson
- 28: Mary (Therese) McCarthy (1912-1989)
- 28: Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) - Also: Vladimir Vladimirovich Maiako
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