Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter O

Was a French Canadian poet. He has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patrio

Was a French Canadian poet. He has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse, often rhetorical in style, celebrating such subjects as Montcalm's defence of Fort Carillon in "Le drapeau de Carillon". Other poems include "Le

Was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field.

Was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field.

Was a Romanian writer, politician, journalist and civil society activist.

Was a Romanian writer, politician, journalist and civil society activist.

A Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

A Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat,Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solórzano and Josefina Lozan

Was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat,Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solórzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of the Revolution against the Diaz regime. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico City) by his mother Josefina, his aunt Amalia Paz, and his paternal grandfather, Ireneo Paz, a liberal intellectual, novelist, publisher and former supporter of President Porfirio Díaz. Because of his family's public support of Emiliano Zapata they were forced into exile after Zapata's assassination. They served their exile in the United States.

Was a Japanese novelist, peace activist, academic and Time Asian Hero.[1]His travels through Europe

Was a Japanese novelist, peace activist, academic and Time Asian Hero.[1]His travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day formed the basis of his 1961 bestseller Nandemo Mite yaro ("I'll go and see everything").[3] His first book Assatte no Shuki ("The Notebook of the Day After Tomorrow") was published in 1951. It was based on experiences during World War II and the Korean War.[4]Oda won the Lotus Prize in 1981 of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association for his book Hiroshima.[5] This led to a 1990 English translation as well as translations in French, Arabic, Italian, Korean and Russian. It was written about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only in Japan but on the Hopi Indians and Americans who lived near the testing sites.

Is an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered as one of the founders of children's litera

Is an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered as one of the founders of children's literature in Hebrew.From 1949 to 1955 Oded Burla lived in the USA where he taught in Hebrew schools, worked as an announcer and speechwriter for a radio station "Kol America". In addition, he started his artist career. When he came back to Israel, Oded Burla had been admitted into Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in which he majored in graphics.

Was a French actress and writer of novels, plays, and scripts. She is also the author of some novels

Was a French actress and writer of novels, plays, and scripts. She is also the author of some novels, of plays, of essays on Nicephore Niepce and on the dance, and of two books of literature for the youth evoking the dance: L'Âge heureux (adapted to the television) and Côté jardin. Joyeux also wrote The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) (adapted to the film).

Greek poet,regarded as one of the most important representatives of romantic modernism in Greece and

Greek poet,regarded as one of the most important representatives of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan. Outside Japan, he is chi

Was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan. Outside Japan, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of The Book of Tea.he attended Tokyo Imperial University, where he first met and studied under Ernest Fenollosa. In 1890, Okakura was one of the principal founders of the first Japanese fine-arts academy, Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (Tokyo School of Fine Arts) and a year later became the head, though he was later ousted from the school in an administrative struggle. Later, he also founded Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Institute of Fine Arts) with Hashimoto Gaho and Yokoyama Taikan. He was invited by William Sturgis Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1904 and became the first head of the Asian art division in 1910.

Was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, poet, and cosmopolitan. He often went under

Was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, poet, and cosmopolitan. He often went under the pseudonym of Olavi Lauri. Paavolainen was the central figure of the literary group Tulenkantajat (The Flame Bearers) and one of the most influential literary opinion leaders between the two World wars in Finland. He represented liberal and Europe oriented views of culture and had an eclectic eye for new ideas.In the late 1920s Paavolainen praised urban life, technology, and roaring cars in his works centering around modernism as the Italian Futurist poet F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944) had done two decades earlier. In the 1930s and 1940s he published a number of works that controversially criticised the members of the Nazi cabinet in Germany and later the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

Was a Brazilian actor, author and theater director. Coan worked in both television and theater as an

Was a Brazilian actor, author and theater director. Coan worked in both television and theater as an actor.Coan was a graduate of the Escola de Arte Dramática (EAD-USP), which is part of the University of São Paulo.[1] He joined the Centro de Pesquisa Teatral (Research Center of Theater), which was headed by Brazilian theater director Antunes Filho.[1] He worked on such plays as Romeo and Juliet (Romeu e Julieta), Macunaíma and Nelson 2 Rodrigues (Nelson Rodrigues 2) while at the Research Center.[1]

Is a Czech composer, pianist, publicist and writer.From 1943 to 1949 he studied at the Prague Conser

Is a Czech composer, pianist, publicist and writer.From 1943 to 1949 he studied at the Prague Conservatory, as a pupil of F. Pícha. He was forced to interrupt his studies in 1944-45, when he was imprisoned in a concentration camp.[1] Following the communist Victorious February in 1948 Korte was once more affected by the political situation in former Czechoslovakia. He was forced to find work out of the artistic professions.[1] Nevertheless, he never gave up his musical and literary activities, and gradually became a respected composer and pianist.[1]

Was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland. He was the father of Nils Torvalds and grand

Was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland. He was the father of Nils Torvalds and grandfather of Linus Torvalds.His full name was Ole Torvald Elis Saxberg, but he was also named Karanko after his step father, Toivo T. Karanko. In 1935 when he had moved to Helsinki for studies he changed his name to Torvalds. In 1944 he was awarded a literature prize from Svenska Dagbladet (shared with Harry Martinson, Lars Ahlin and Elly Jannes). In 1978 he received an honorary doctorate from Åbo Akademi.

Was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lectur

Was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world. (Ukrainian: ????????? ??????, Oleksandr Koshyts’, first name sometimes translated Alexander). At

Was a Ukrainian poet and activist. Olena Teliha was born Elena Shovgeneva in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Was a Ukrainian poet and activist. Olena Teliha was born Elena Shovgeneva in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her father was a Russian civil engineer while her mother came from a family of Russian Orthodox priests. In 1918, she moved to Kiev with her family, where

Was a Dutch physician and writer. He wrote books about history and geography, although he never trav

Was a Dutch physician and writer. He wrote books about history and geography, although he never travelled outside Holland. Until today, his book Description of Africa (1668) is a key text for Africanists.Olfert Dapper was born in 1635 or possibly early 1636 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. In January 1636, he was baptized in the Lutheran church in Amsterdam.[1]

Is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, con

Is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, contains erotic poems toward her women lovers.[1] Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series[2] in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award[citation needed]. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade

Was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.

Was an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.Masters wrote as a journalist for most

Was an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.Masters wrote as a journalist for most of her life, and supplemented the family income by writing for local newspapers in the towns she lived in with her husband. On their return to Sydney, she wrote for papers such as The Manly Daily and The Sydney Morning Herald.While she wanted to write fiction from an early age, she was not published as a writer of fiction until the late 1970s. During this decade she wrote several radio plays, receiving many rejections, but on 29 April 1977, her radio play The Penny Ha-penny Stamp was broadcast.[3] However with the publication of her short story, Call me Pinkie, in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1978, she moved from writing drama to prose fiction.[3] Between 1979 and 1980, she won nine awards for her short stories.[4] She wrote fiction full-time from 1982, after the publication of The Home Girls.[5]

Writer and educator on theater arts, author of articles and monographs on dance and dancers. Her pub

Writer and educator on theater arts, author of articles and monographs on dance and dancers. Her published books are on ballet, modern dance, opera and the integration of performing arts into general education. She lectured widely and was active internationally as dance-historian and liberal arts educator—also as critic, jurist and consultant. She published hundreds of articles, reviewing most of the leading figures and institutions of the ‘dance boom’ of the mid 1960s into the 1980s, interacting with leading figures and institutions in the arts, notably dance.

Is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist and professor.Olga Nolla studied in Colegio La Milagrosa

Is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist and professor.Olga Nolla studied in Colegio La Milagrosa in Mayagüez during her formative years. She enrolled in Manhattanville College together with her Rosario Ferré. She obtained a Bachelors of Natural Science

Was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was

Was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents where she initiated her career as a writer.Orozco directed some literary publications using some pseudonymous names while she worked as a journalist. She was a member of so-called «Tercera Vanguardia» generation, which had a strong surrealist tendency

Was a Ukrainian modernist writer. Together with Lesya Ukrainka she was the first to explore feminist

Was a Ukrainian modernist writer. Together with Lesya Ukrainka she was the first to explore feminist topics in Ukrainian literature. She is also considered the most important Ukrainian writer to emerge from the region of Bukovyna. From 1891 until her deat

Was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Sto

Was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it tackled the issues of its day, ranging from agnosticism to the treatment of women.When Olive was six, Gottlob transferred to Healdtown in the Eastern Cape to run the Wesleyan training institute there. As with so many of his other projects, he simply was not up to the task and was expelled in disgrace for trading against missionary regulations. He was forced to make his own living for the first time in his life, and tried a business venture. Again, he failed and was insolvent within a year. The family lived in abject poverty as a result.