Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a Finnish journalist and television reporter. He is a presenter of TV program Uutisvuoto[2] and h

Is a Finnish journalist and television reporter. He is a presenter of TV program Uutisvuoto[2] and hosts Premier league studio in Canal+. Before Uutisvuoto, Nyman was known as a host of Mediapeli.[citation needed]

Is a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, a

Is a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, a kind of female action hero / undercover trouble-shooter / enforcer. He is also an historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent.O'Donnell began to write professionally prior to World War II at the age of 16. From 1938 and during the war he served as an NCO in mobile radio detachment (3 Corps) of Royal Signals Corps in 9th army in Persia in 1942. Afterwards his unit was moved to Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, Italy, and Greece in October 1944.

Is an American poet best known for his lifelong relationship with Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsber

Is an American poet best known for his lifelong relationship with Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.Orlovsky was born to Russian parents named Oleg and Katharina Orlovsky in New York City. Orlovsky was raised in poverty and was forced to drop out of hig

Is a brand strategist, writer, columnist, editor, publisher, designer, creative director, public spe

Is a brand strategist, writer, columnist, editor, publisher, designer, creative director, public speaker, corporate celebrity, radio and television personality from Malaysia. He is best known as the creative director of New Nation, a British tabloid; the editor-in-chief of Food & Beverage magazine; publisher of Malaysian Superbrands; and for his work in branding.

Is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for

Is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

German writer, who has significantly influenced the German post-war literature.

German writer, who has significantly influenced the German post-war literature.

Australian author and poet, is remembered in Australia for his attempt to assassinate federal Opposi

Australian author and poet, is remembered in Australia for his attempt to assassinate federal Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell in 1966.Kocan was born Peter Raymond Douglas in Newcastle, New South Wales and raised in Melbourne. His father, an engineer, was killed in a car accident three months before his birth. Kocan's mother then moved to Melbourne and remarried, but the marriage failed so Peter, his mother and younger brother moved to Sydney. Escaping a childhood of loneliness, disadvantage and family violence, Kocan left school at fourteen to work in country New South Wales as a labourer and station-hand, before returning to Sydney, where he gained work as a factory-hand in a dye factory.

Is the author of A Beast in View (André Deutsch), The Future of Treason (Ballantine), A Gardener To

Is the author of A Beast in View (André Deutsch), The Future of Treason (Ballantine), A Gardener Touched with Genius: The Life of Luther Burbank (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; rev. ed., University of California Press; new, expanded ed., Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, Santa Rosa), and Martyrs and Fanatics: South Africa and Human Destiny (Simon & Schuster; Secker & Warburg). He was born and brought up in South Africa, where he was involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, serving on the Cape Provincial Committee of the Liberal Party, founded and led by Alan Paton, and as secretary of the Western Province Press Association, which published the fortnightly The Citizen (which ceased publication in 1959 and should not be confused with the pro-apartheid tabloid of the same name launched in 1976). Dreyer left South Africa in 1961 and subsequently launched and edited Omphalos: A Mediterranean Review in Athens. In 1972, however, he was expelled from Greece by the military junta then in power there and moved to the United States. During the 1970s, he was book columnist for San Francisco magazine. He has lived in Virginia since 1988.

An Australian author. Robb spent his formative years in both Australia and New Zealand, and between

An Australian author. Robb spent his formative years in both Australia and New Zealand, and between 1978 and 1992 he spent most of his time in Naples and southern Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Brazil. At the end of 1992 he returned to Sydney.His first book, Midnight in Sicily, was published in Australia in October 1996. It won the Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for non-fiction in 1997

An Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical[3] and crime fiction.[4].

An Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical[3] and crime fiction.[4]. As crime fiction writer, he has been described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing".[4]Corris' secondary school education was at Melbourne High School[5][2] He was a Bachelor level student at the University of Melbourne, then gained a Master of Arts in History at Monash University.[2] Corris then studied at the Australian National University where he awarded a PhD in History.[1].

Was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria. He was a farmer's boy and grew up in the forests a

Was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria. He was a farmer's boy and grew up in the forests and fields. Rosegger (or Rossegger) went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary. In his later years,

Is a German composer and conductor of classical music. Peter Ruzicka was born in Düsseldorf on July

Is a German composer and conductor of classical music. Peter Ruzicka was born in Düsseldorf on July 3, 1948. He received his early musical training (piano, oboe and composition) at the Hamburg Conservatory. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte. He studied law and musicology in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin (doctoral thesis: Berlin, 1977). The list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera „Celan“, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. His new opera “Hölderlin” had its premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2008.

Is a Franco-German journalist and publicist. After taking a master's degree at Institut d’études

Is a Franco-German journalist and publicist. After taking a master's degree at Institut d’études politiques de Paris and subsequently completing his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne, he gained another master's in Arab and Islamic studies at Saint Joseph U

Is a Filipino poet, fictionist, and author.Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Aw

Is a Filipino poet, fictionist, and author.Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature[1], the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture and the Arts)awardee.[

Was a writer for theater, television and movies. He was born in Los Angeles. His father John Stone (

Was a writer for theater, television and movies. He was born in Los Angeles. His father John Stone (born Saul Strumwasser) was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies.[1] He graduated from University High School and he attended Bard College starting 1947, received Master's Degree from Yale University in 1953

Is a German journalist and collector. His collection was the basis of Hamburg's International Mariti

Is a German journalist and collector. His collection was the basis of Hamburg's International Maritim Museum in 2008. He collected militaria and model ships, among other things. From his collection, he founded the Wissenschaftliches Institut für Schifffah

An Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to f

An Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels (Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point, and White Dog) are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist. He has also written four stand-alone novels: An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, In the Evil Day (Identity Theory in the US), and The Broken Shore. He has won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, the most recent in 2006 for The Broken Shore, which also won the Colin Roderick Award for best Australian book and the Australian Book Publishers' Award for best general fiction. The Broken Shore also won the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2007.[1]Temple is the first Australian to win a Gold Dagger.[2]

Is a German musician and radio host. Since the 1997 Contest, Urban following Jan Hofer has been the

Is a German musician and radio host. Since the 1997 Contest, Urban following Jan Hofer has been the German commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest, due to illness in 2009, Urban was unable to commentate on the 2009 Contest, with Tim Frühling filling i

Is a novelist,[1], dramatist[2], critic and writer of essays[3], At age two she returned to Jamaica

Is a novelist,[1], dramatist[2], critic and writer of essays[3], At age two she returned to Jamaica with her parents (both born in Jamaica) and was educated at the St. Andrew High School for Girls. In 1946 she was awarded the Jamaica Centenary Scholarship

Was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the t

Was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the two in the development of German opera. (His name is sometimes given as Peter von Winter.) A child prodigy on the violin, he played in the Mannheim court orchestra. He studied with Salieri in Vienna. Moving to Munich in 1778, he became director of the court theatre at which point he started to write stage works, at first ballets and melodramas. He became Vice-Kapellmeister in Munich in 1787 and Kapellmeister in 1798, a title he kept for the rest of his life.

Is a Latvian composer. Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, to a family of a Baptist pastor. He traine

Is a Latvian composer. Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, to a family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a double-bass player, and played in several Latvian orchestras before entering the State Conservatory in Vilnius in the neighboring Lithuania to study

Was a Bulgarian composer and pianist. He enriched the Bulgarian musical culture and contributed cons

Was a Bulgarian composer and pianist. He enriched the Bulgarian musical culture and contributed considerably to its development. A composer of great creative talent, of wide musical and general culture, possessing a keen sense for the topical ideas of modern time, he dedicated his entire life and all his abilities to Bulgarian music and musical culture, and to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Was one of the most distinguished composers in the Czech Republic.Born in Žamberk in northeastern B

Was one of the most distinguished composers in the Czech Republic.Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent his youth in ?eský Krumlov in southern Bohemia. There he studied piano, and later cello and organ. The years of German occupation and World War II were especially difficult for him. Although Eben was raised as a Catholic, his father was a Jew and in 1943 Eben was expelled from school and interned by the Nazis in Buchenwald for the duration of the war.

Is a composer, conductor and flutist living in New York City. He was educated in Europe (Prague Cons

Is a composer, conductor and flutist living in New York City. He was educated in Europe (Prague Conservatory, graduated 1961; Vienna Music Academy, graduated 1966; AMU Prague, graduated 1969). From 1960 to 1963, Kotik studied composition privately with Jan Rychlík in Prague, and from 1963 to 1966 at the Music Academy in Vienna with Karl Schieske, Hans Jelinek, and Friedrich Cerha. In Prague, he founded and directed Musica Viva Pragensis (1961-64) and the QUAX Ensemble (1966-69). He came to the United States in 1969 at the invitation of Lukas Foss and Lejaren Hiller to join the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the University at Buffalo.

Is a Czech musician and actor. He is a clarinettist, saxophonist, bansuri player, vocalist, composer

Is a Czech musician and actor. He is a clarinettist, saxophonist, bansuri player, vocalist, composer and arranger.In 1991, at the age of eighteen, Kroutil became a member of the extremely successful big band, The Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra. The band, which concentrated on performing music from the 1930s era, toured Europe and North Africa extensively.After starring as Dany in the romantic comedy The Swell Season (Czech Herec),[1] an adaptation of the novel by Josef Skvorecky, Kroutil gained fame in the Czech Republic. He also recorded and performed the soundtrack for the mini-series.