Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat.
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Greek poet and art critic (1911–1996)
Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
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Polish writer and activist (born 1962)
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual.
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Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer.
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French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist.
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Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate (born 1952)
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Italian journalist (1929–2006)
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author.
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Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian (c. 185 – c. 253)
Origen
Origen of Alexandria, also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian theologian and ascetic.
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Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.
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