Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a French writer and journalist. During the Yugoslav Wars, he supported Serbia by publishing the b

Is a French writer and journalist. During the Yugoslav Wars, he supported Serbia by publishing the book in particular against the slanderers of Serbia, which created tension with other intellectuals like Michel Polac, Romain Goupil and Didier Daeninckx. Attacks by Daeninckx led Besson to criticize him in a novel, called Didier Denounces (editions Gerard de Villiers).

Is a French TV journalist and writer. He was also the chief executive officer of France Televisions

Is a French TV journalist and writer. He was also the chief executive officer of France Televisions fron July 2005 to August 2010.

Is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An Asso

Is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An Associate Professor of Letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years old, for his fourth novel, Les Flamboyants, (The Flasher).[1]

Was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leader

Was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. He was declared "President of the Provisional Government" of the Irish Republic in one of the bulletins issued by the Risin

Was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.He was born at Yass in New South

Was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.He was born at Yass in New South Wales and ordained after study at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly. Writing under the pseudonym "John O'Brien" Hartigan's verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered as a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century. His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States.

Was an Irish poet.Kavanagh was born in , Inniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904.His father was a shoemak

Was an Irish poet.Kavanagh was born in , Inniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904.His father was a shoemaker, and Patrick also entered the trade after leaving school. Kavanagh never got beyond 6th class, he once said "I majored in kicking a rag ball", but his e

Was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections

Was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.The religious faith in which he was brought up was, however, soon lost, and at 19 he was sent to live in the United States of America, where he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. For a time, he lived in utter poverty, which may have contributed to his later paranoia and distrust of those around him[citation needed]. He eventually found a friend in the English printer and communalist Henry Watkin. With Watkin's help, Hearn picked up a living in the lower grades of newspaper work.

Is a French language novelist in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Jewish Italian origins and a B

Is a French language novelist in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Jewish Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa Colpijn (actress). He is a winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972 and the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his no

Was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels se

Was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially-finished twenty-first novel in the series was published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and typescript.

Is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed PPDA. With ove

Is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed PPDA. With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of television news to his credit, he was one of the longest serving newsreaders in the world until he was fired in 2008. He presented his last newscast on TF1 on 10 July 2008.[1]

Is a French writer. With Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches, (satirical novels). They

Is a French writer. With Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches, (satirical novels). They wrote Le Journalisme sans peine (Editions Plon, 1997). In 1970, he help found the iconic magazine Actuel.[1]

German writer and screenwriter.

German writer and screenwriter.

Is a German writer and screenwriter.He was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany

Is a German writer and screenwriter.He was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany. His father was writer and journalist Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind. He studied Medieval and Modern History at the University of Munich and in Aix-en-Provence f

Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century

Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short story collections and eight plays.

Was a Catholic journalist. He was the son of Johann Wittmann, a stonemason, and his wife Maria Anna

Was a Catholic journalist. He was the son of Johann Wittmann, a stonemason, and his wife Maria Anna Hirschle. His standing as a pupil in the Latin school of his native town gained him a free scholarship in the convictus attached to the Ehinger gymnasium,

Was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music.

Was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music.

Was a French conductor and composer. Paul Bastide studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence and t

Was a French conductor and composer. Paul Bastide studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Paris Conservatoire (with Pessard and Massenet), winning a first prize in harmony.[1] From 1919-38 Bastide was the musical director of the opera house in Strasbourg, conducting Samson et Dalila at the re-opening on 8 March 1919 after the German occupation of Alsace. He returned again after the Second World War, from 1945-48, re-opening with Carmen on 16 November 1945 and conducting notable productions of Béatrice et Bénédict (first French staging), and Martine by Rabaud (premiere).[2]

Was a French composer, conductor and music teacher. Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse. He studied at t

Was a French composer, conductor and music teacher. Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse. He studied at the conservatoires in Toulouse and in Paris, under Jules Massenet in the latter. He won the Prix de Rome in 1883, one year before Claude Debussy did. On 8 January 1886, in Rome, Vidal and Debussy performed Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony at two pianos for Liszt himself, an after-dinner performance that Liszt apparently slept through. The following day they played Emmanuel Chabrier's two-piano Valses romantiques for Liszt.

Is a contemporary African-American author. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn

Is a contemporary African-American author. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University.

French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.Paul Bénichou first achieved prominence

French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.Paul Bénichou first achieved prominence in 1948 with Morales du grand siècle, his work on the social context of the French seventeenth-century classics. Later Bénichou undertook a prodigious research program, seeking to understand the radical pessimism and disappointment expressed by mid-nineteenth writers. This project resulted in a series of major works, beginning with Le Sacre de l’écrivain, 1750-1830 (1973; Eng. trans. 1999 [The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830]). A 1995 volume, Selon Mallarmé, may be considered an extension of this series. Together, these works amount to an important reinterpretation of French romanticism. Critic Tzvetan Todorov described Bénichou’s special interest as “the thought of poets.” More generally, though, Paul Bénichou’s work contributed to the understanding of the creative writer's place in modernity, and illuminated the role of writers in legitimating the institutions and values of modern society.

Is a Brooklyn-based author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New Yor

Is a Brooklyn-based author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).

Was the co-founder of Manécanterie des Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois in 1906. He wrote a doc

Was the co-founder of Manécanterie des Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois in 1906. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the legal protection of composers which has long been authoritative and an essay on Jean-Philippe Rameau. He was the grandfather of the singer France Gall and father of the composer and organist Jacques Berthier (1923-1994).

Was a successful and prolific Dutch writer of children's literature.Paul Biegel was born in Bussum i

Was a successful and prolific Dutch writer of children's literature.Paul Biegel was born in Bussum in 1925. His father, Hermann Biegel, was of German descent, and owned a building materials shop. With his wife Madeleine Povel-Guillot he had nine children, six girls and three boys, of which Paul was the youngest. He wasn't a prolific reader as a child, preferring to play outside. His favourite books where the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm and the works of Jules Verne. He studied in Bussum (primary school) and Amsterdam, graduating in 1945.

Was a French composer of classical music. He studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur

Was a French composer of classical music. He studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and received the premier prix d'harmonie (1937) in the class of Jean Gallon; the premier prix de fugue (1942) in the class of Noël Gallon; and the premier prix de composition (1945) in the class of Henri Busser.

Was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World Wa

Was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era.[1]