Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter O

Was the late editor of Moto Magazine in Zimbabwe. He was one of the first Zimbabwean journalists to

Was the late editor of Moto Magazine in Zimbabwe. He was one of the first Zimbabwean journalists to break the “culture of silence” which followed the country’s independence in 1980.

Is a Finnish Winter War veteran and writer.Onni Palaste started writing factual, but slightly dramat

Is a Finnish Winter War veteran and writer.Onni Palaste started writing factual, but slightly dramatised novels about the Winter War in 1967. His original inspiration to writing was winning a short story competition during the war, after which his fellow soldiers suggested he try writing full-length novels.

Was a Filipino Visayan writer of short stories and plays.

Was a Filipino Visayan writer of short stories and plays.

Was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Abori

Was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights.[2] Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse.[3]Oodgeroo loved the sea and the seashore, but not her schooling. She wrote with her left hand, and was punished for it. She left school at age 13 in 1933, at the height of the Depression, to work as a domestic servant in Brisbane.[2] In 1942, during World War II with her brothers Eddie and Eric imprisoned as POWs in Singapore, she volunteered for war service in the Australian Women's Army Service.[4] As a communication worker in Army HQ in Brisbane she received training in book keeping, typing and shorthand, reaching the rank of corporal.[citation needed] During her war service “Oodgeroo noticed a big difference in the way she was treated once she had enlisted. She experienced social equality.”[4]

Is a Jamaica-born writer, artist and teacher.Since 1993, Opal Palmer Adisa has taught literature and

Is a Jamaica-born writer, artist and teacher.Since 1993, Opal Palmer Adisa has taught literature and served as Chair of the Ethnic Studies/Cultural Diversity Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.

Was a Turkish poet. Together with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet, he founded the Garip Movement.Orhan

Was a Turkish poet. Together with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet, he founded the Garip Movement.Orhan Veli's father was a conductor of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra. His younger brother, Adnan Veli, was a well known journalist whose memoir of his time in prison on political charges, "Mahpushane Çesmesi (The Prison Fountain)", was published in 1952. Orhan Veli studied at the Ankara Gazi High School before he started his university education which lasted one year at Istanbul University's philosophy department before dropping out in 1935. He was employed by the Ministry of Education as a translator from 1945 to 1947. Later, he worked as a freelance translator and journalist. In 1949, he helped the publication of Yaprak, a literary magazine. As also evidenced from the contents of some of his deeply humorous poetry, he was a heavy drinker. His death was due to a brain hemorrhage a few days after he fell into a pot hole on the street while intoxicated.

Was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II,

Was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.She has interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguy?n V?n Thi?u, Haile Selassie, Sean Connery and Lech Walesa.

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He is today considered to be the chief repres

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and one of the two most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century (the other being Palestrina).

Was a Portuguese writer of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Port

Was a Portuguese writer of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Portuguese and French on his mother Amélia Maria Fréchaut Fernandes' side, born in the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques.

Was born in Steubenville, Ohio, The United States of America and at some point anglicized his name t

Was born in Steubenville, Ohio, The United States of America and at some point anglicized his name to John Scarne (pronounced /'sk?rni/). He grew up in the New Jersey communities of Fairview and Guttenberg. Leaving school after the eighth grade, he learned as a teenager from a local card shark how to perform tricks like Three-card Monte and to gamble using cards. Scarne began practicing card manipulation, with the goal of becoming a card shark. His Roman Catholic mother, not wishing her son to become a professional gambler or to cheat others, encouraged him to take up magic instead, and Scarne started using his skill at handling cards to learn and devise card tricks. He spent a few months learning about crooked gambling devices (including marked cards and loaded dice) at a nearby novelty store. Thanks to his endless practice, Scarne began making money as a magician.

Is a Cuban American composer of contemporary classical music.Garcia has composed over 120 works, and

Is a Cuban American composer of contemporary classical music.Garcia has composed over 120 works, and his music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. His music has been recorded by the New Albion, CRI, New World, O.O. Discs, North/South, Albany, Edicion Sonora, Opus One, Contemporary Recording Studios (CRS), and Capstone labels.

Is a Colombian internist and graduated M.Phil., writer and thanatologist.[1] He was born in Bogotá.

Is a Colombian internist and graduated M.Phil., writer and thanatologist.[1] He was born in Bogotá. Currently he lives in Manizales and is titular professor at the Universidad de Caldas faculty of medicine.[2]

Is a politician from the Philippines. Mercado was a senator for three terms (1987–1992, 1992–199

Is a politician from the Philippines. Mercado was a senator for three terms (1987–1992, 1992–1995 and 1995–1998) and the head and anchor the popular radio program Radio Patrol of ABS-CBN from 1969 to 1971. In 2008 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Mercado to Philippine ambassador to the People's Republic of China, also accredited to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Mongolia,[2] however this was rejected by the Commission on Appointments.[3] In 2009 he was appointed as the Philippine ASEAN representative.[3]

Is an Israeli author.Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of To

Is an Israeli author.Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of Town, was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel Dolly City, has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel.

Is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of

Is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. H

Was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. He is noted for his ironic and gloomy wit, his obsession with suicide, and his brilliant fantasy.The year before last I was expelled from my family and, reduced to poverty overnight, was left to wander the streets, begging help for various quarters, barely managing to stay alive from one day to the next, and just when I'd begun to think I might be able to support myself with my writing, I came down with a serious illness. Thanks to the compassion of others, I was able to rent a small house in Funabashi,

Is a Venezuelan journalist and writer, was born in Caracas on April 25, 1927. He is considered one o

Is a Venezuelan journalist and writer, was born in Caracas on April 25, 1927. He is considered one of the pioneers in television journalism, particularly the televised interview and has become famous for his historical research revealing disconcerting eve

Angolan writer.Ribas was born in Luanda, the son of Arnaldo Gonçalves Ribas (who was Portuguese) an

Angolan writer.Ribas was born in Luanda, the son of Arnaldo Gonçalves Ribas (who was Portuguese) and Maria de Conceição Bento Faria (Angolan). His first publications were two novels: Nuvens que passam (Clouds that pass) in 1927 and Resgate de uma falta (R

Was an American lawyer-turned-screenwriter. Entering the film industry in 1935, Brodney worked on va

Was an American lawyer-turned-screenwriter. Entering the film industry in 1935, Brodney worked on various projects, including Abbott and Costello's Mexican Hayride and the adapted screenplay for Harvey. The playwright Lawrence Riley and two other screenwriters adapted one of Brodney's story for the screen under the title You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (Universal, 1943). He was nominated for an Oscar for The Glenn Miller Story screenplay which he wrote with Valentine Davies in 1954. In the late 1950's he began to produce movies, his first one being When Hell Broke Loose in 1958, where he was co-producer. The movie starred Charles Bronson. Brodney died on February 12, 2008, six days short of his 101st birthday.

Was an American author and film director. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Pictur

Was an American author and film director. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films.[

An original contemporary composer from Argentina. Known for creativity and inventiveness, frequently

An original contemporary composer from Argentina. Known for creativity and inventiveness, frequently he is described as leading Latin America’s avant-garde. He is also a pianist, conductor, and researcher.Edelstein is from a family of musicians but his father, a road engineer, inspired him also with a love of machines and technology. He triggered Edelstein's desire to compose by a birthday present at the age of five of a Geloso portable tape recorder. It was his first instrument and tool for composition before the piano.

Is the Bolivian-born founder of the Arica School which he established in 1968. Ichazo's Enneagram of

Is the Bolivian-born founder of the Arica School which he established in 1968. Ichazo's Enneagram of Personality theories are part of a larger body of teaching that he terms Protoanalysis. In Ichazo's teachings the enneagram figure has usually been called an Enneagon.

Was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent.Fernández studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música

Was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent.Fernández studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música with Francisco Braga, Frederico Nascimento, and Henrique Oswald. In 1923, Nascimento was taken seriously ill, and Fernández was designated his temporary substitute in the chair of upper-level harmony, an appointment which became permanent two years later (Kiefer 1986, 81). In 1936 he founded the Conservatório Brasiliero de Música in Rio de Janeiro, which he directed until his death. From 1949 onward was in addition Professor of Choral Singing at the Conservatório Nacional de Canto Orfeônico.

Was a pioneering African American author and is widely recognized as being the first African-America

Was a pioneering African American author and is widely recognized as being the first African-American filmmaker (although he was predated by the shortlived Lincoln Motion Picture Company[1]). He is considered the most prominent producer of race films.

Was a French-Lithuanian writer and Lithuanian diplomat. His work was concerned with symbols and asso

Was a French-Lithuanian writer and Lithuanian diplomat. His work was concerned with symbols and associations. As a recluse, his poems were vibrant and tormented, concerned with love, loneliness and anger[1]. Milosz was primarily a poet, though he also wro