American film director and writer (1941–2012)
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was an American writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker.
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French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
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German poet and writer (1772-1801)
Novalis
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic.
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American short story writer (1862–1910)
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O.
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French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
Octave Mirbeau
Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highl
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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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