Pentti Haanpää was a Finnish author. He was born in Pulkkila, and is best known for his books Vääpeli Sadon tapaus 1935 and Noitaympyrä 1931. He died in Pyhäntä, aged 49.

Kaarlo Pentti Linkola was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. He wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker, and is linked by some authors to ecofascism and to authoritarian deep ecology. Linkola was a year-round fisherman from 1959 to 1995. He fished on Keitele, Päijänne and the Gulf of Finland, and since 1978 he fished on Vanajavesi.

Pentti Saarikoski was one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 1960s and 1970s. His body of work comprises poetry and translations, among them such classics as Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses.

Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela.

Pepper Winters is a novelist best known for dark romance, contemporary, romantic suspense, and erotica thrillers. Her romantic novels have reached The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best sellers. She received the IndieReader Badge for a Top 10 Indie Bestseller in the romantic novels category. She currently has 30 books released in nine languages.

Per Aage Brandt was a Danish writer, poet, linguist and musician, born in Buenos Aires. He got his Master of Arts in Romance Philology from the University of Copenhagen (1971) & held a Doctorate of Semiotics from the Sorbonne University (1987).

Per Anders Rudling is a Swedish-American historian and an associate professor in the Department of History at Lund University (Sweden). He specializes in the areas of nationalism.

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy.

Per Olof Sundman was a Swedish writer and politician.

Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, was a Swedish author. He had worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.