Angela Nanetti
Angela Nanetti is an Italian writer.
She was awarded the Baltvilks International Prize in Children’s Literature and Book Art, for the book My Grandfather was a Cherry Tree in 2019.
The book was made into an animated short film by directors Olga Poliektova and Tatiana Poliektova in 2015.
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Fille et sœur d'auteurs, Silène a grandi dans une maison dont les murs sont faits de livres. Nourrie de voyages, elle a bourlingué un peu lors de ses études de lettres, et après quelques années à droite à gauche, dont une superbe escapade d'un an à Tahiti, elle a finalement posé ses valises près de Guérande. Elle enseigne aujourd’hui dans un petit collège du marais briéron, dont l'atmosphère est propice à l'imaginaire.
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Pour la jeunesse, elle est l'auteur d'une trilogie d'anticipation post-apocalyptique, largement nourri de son expérience polynésienne, dont le premier volume, La Saveur des figues, paraît en 2010. L'aventure de Moana se poursuit avec Le Bateau vagabond, paru en octobre 2011 et À la source des nuages, paru en novembre 2013.
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Ivana Nešić
Ivana Nešić je književnica, istoričarka umetnosti i prevoditeljka. Rođena je 1981. u Ćupriji, živi u Beogradu. Dobitnica je nagrada „Politikinog zabavnika“, „Neven“, „Trg od knjige“ i „Rade Obrenović“.
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Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
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Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
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Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo Award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965), subsequently published under the title This Immortal (1966), and the novel Lord of Light (1967).
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
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Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact -
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Times notable book. Her 2002 book The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award.
Her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, spent 57 weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. It has shipped over 6 million copies in the US and has been published in over thirty languages. A film adaptation of the book was released by Columbia Pictures with an all star cast: Julia Roberts as Gilbert, Javier Bardem as Felipe, James Franco as David, Billy Crudup as her ex-husband and Rich -
Thomas Mann
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Serbian: Tomas Man
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important -
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven and published her first short story when she was 18. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she remained until her death in 2019. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen
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Simon Beckett
After an MA in English, Simon Beckett spent several years as a property repairer before a stint teaching in Spain. Back in the UK, he played percussion in several bands. He has been a freelance journalist since 1992, writing for The Times, The Independent on Sunday Review, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer and other major British publications. In 2002, as part of an article on the National Forensic Academy, he visited the Body Farm in Tennessee. This last commission was the inspiration behind the internationally bestselling The Chemistry of Death, which was shortlisted for the CWA's Duncan Lawrie Dagger and has been translated into 21 languages. Simon Beckett is married and lives in Sheffield. The author of six novels, his second David Hunt
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Robert James Waller
Robert James Waller was an American author also known for his work as a photographer and musician. Several of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list including 1992's The Bridges of Madison County, which was the top best-seller in 1993. Both that novel and his 1995 novel, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, have been made into motion pictures.
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Emilio Salgari
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Arabic: أميليو سالغاري
Father of Italian Popular Culture, Grandfather of the Spaghetti Western, Father of Heroes are but three of the titles bestowed upon Italian adventure writer Emilio Salgari. He wrote more than two hundred short stories and novels, many of which are considered classics. Setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures, Mr. Salgari brought the wonders of the world to the doorstep of generations of readers. -
Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron (b. 1959) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982. Cameron began publishing stories in the New Yorker one year later. His numerous award-winning stories for that magazine led to the publication of his first book, One Way or Another (1986), which received a special citation for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a First Book of Fiction. He has since focused on writing novels, including Leap Year (1990) and The City of Your Final Destination (2002), which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Cameron lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
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Mykola Kulish
Микола Куліш - the most famous Ukrainian playwright of the twentieth century. After his mother’s early death, Kulish spent most of his childhood in orphanages and charity homes. He finished his early education thanks to the financial support of distant acquaintances. He began writing satirical poems and plays as a gymnasium student in Oleshky. After graduating from the gymnasium in Poti (now in Georgia) in 1914, he studied history and philology at Odesa University. Kulish’s university education was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. He was conscripted into the Russian Army, took part in military campaigns as an infantry officer in Galicia, Volhynia, and Belarus, and thus came into contact with the Ukrainian national movemen
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Max Kidruk
Max Kidruk (Ukranian: Макс Кідрук; born April 1, 1984 in Volodymyrets, Rivne region, Ukraine) - popular Ukrainian writer and science popularizer, holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering. Studied at the National University of Water Management and Nature Resources Use (Rivne, Ukraine), and then was getting a postgraduate education at Kyiv Polytechnic University and Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology. He left both graduate schools in 2009, having decided to become a professional writer.
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Oles Honchar
Ukrainian Soviet writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
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Олесь (Олександр) Терентійович Гончар народився 3 квітня 1918 року в селі Суха, тепер Кобеляцького району Полтавської області. Після закінчення школи вступив до Харківського технікуму журналістики. З 1937 року О. Гончар почав друкуватися в українській пресі. 1938 року він вступив на філологічний факультет Харківського університету.
У перші дні війни пішов добровольцем на фронт у складі студентського батальйону. Брав участь у багатьох боях. Був двічі поранений. Улітку 1942 року в районі Бєлгорода, будучи контуженим, потрапив у полон — Харківський, потім Полтавський табір військовополонених. Звідти з партією військовополонени -
Genki Kawamura
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* Genki Kawamura (English)
* 川村元気 (Japanese)
* คาวามูระ เก็งกิ (Thai)
Genki Kawamura (川村元気) is a Japanese film producer, writer, screenwriter.
中文 >> 川村元氣.
Genki Kawamura is an internationally bestselling author. If Cats Disappeared from the World was his first novel and has sold over two million copies in Japan and has been translated into over fourteen different languages. His other novels are Million Dollar Man and April Come She Will. He has also written children's picture books including Tinny & The Balloon, MOOM, and Patissier Monster. Kawamura occasionally produces, directs, and writes movies, and is a showrunner. He was a producer of the blockbuster anime film Your Name, which is currently being developed into an live-act -
Dejan Aleksić
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Branislav Nušić
Born Alkibijad Nuša (Aromanian: Alchiviadi al Nuşa) in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia to a well-off family, Nušić enjoyed the benefits of a privileged upbringing for only a brief time. His father Đorđe Nuša was a well known grain merchant of Cincar (Aromanian Vlach) origin who lost his wealth shortly after his son's birth and was forced to move the family to Smederevo where young Alkibijad attended elementary school and first two grades of boarding school. During his teens, Nuša moved back to Belgrade where he graduated from boarding school. Upon turning 18 years of age, he legally changed his name to Branislav Nušić. In 1884, he graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. During his studies, he also spent a year in Graz, Aust
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Igor Kolarov
Objavio je knjige za decu:
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- HIONIJINE PRIČE (pesme i priče, 2000)
- MILICA U VRTU (pesme i priče, 2001)
- AGI I EMA (roman, 2002; 2003; 2006; nagrada „Politikin Zabavnik“)
- DVANAESTO MORE (roman, 2004; 2007; nagrada „Dositejevo Pero“)
- PRIČE O SKORO SVEMU (priče, 2005; nagrada Bijeljinskog Sajma knjiga “Čika Jova Zmaj“, nagrada „Neven“)
- KUĆA HILJADU MASKI (roman, 2006; novo, izmenjeno, dopunjeno i dvojezično izdanje na srpskom i norveškom jeziku: 2011; nagrada „Politikin Zabavnik“, nagrada „Sima Cucić“, nagrada „Mali Princ“ za najbolju dečju knjigu u regionu)
- BURENCE (priče, 2007)
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René Guillot
René Paul Guillot (1900-1969) was an author who lived, worked and traveled in French Africa and wrote primarily for children. His works have been translated to many languages and have been included in school required reading in many countries.
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After studying science, René Guillot moved to Senegal to work as a teacher, spending over 20 years in Africa. Most of the material for his many books comes from this time.
In 1964, he received the "Hans Christian Andersen Award" for the novel, Fodai and the Leopard-Men. Three of his books have been adapted to film, while a live-action version of Little Dog Lost featuring a Welsh Corgi, was made for the "Disneyland" show and was broadcast in 1963. -
Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב; born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (where he was sent after his mother was shot by the Nazis). After the war he moved to Israel. He began writing children's literature in 1976 and has since published over 30 books, which are often biographical. His books have been translated from Hebrew into 25 languages, while he himself has also translated Polish literature into Hebrew. One of his most famous books, which was also adapted as a play and as a film, is the semi-autobiographical The Island on Bird Street.
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Vizma Belševica
Vizma Belševica was a Latvian poet, writer and translator. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Receiving the Nobel prize was her childhood dream; she, as a poor but bright girl, spent much of her time reading classical literature. Belševica's work has been recognised: on December 6, 1990, she was elected honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; she has twice received the Spidola Award, which is the highest recognition in Latvian literature. Belševica has also received the highest award of the Latvian State, namely the Three Star Order.
Vizma Belševica published her first poems in 1947; her first book of poetry appeared in 1955. Her most notable poetry collections are Jūra deg (The Sea is Burning, 1966), Gadu gredz -
Jasminka Petrović
Rođena je 1960. godine u Beogradu. Studirala je španski jezik i književnost na Beogradskom univerzitetu. Bavila se marketingom i novinarstvom. Bila je urednik dečje emisije na radiju. Pisala je za mnoge dečje časopise. Učestvovala je u različitim programima koji podstiču dečju maštu i stvaralaštvo. Uređivala je časopis National Geographic Junior. Za svoje knjige dobila je nekoliko nagrada. Udata je i ima dvoje dece.
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Maria Parr
Maria Parr is a writer and high-school teacher. Adventures with Waffles, her debut novel, has been translated into twenty languages and won several awards around the world. Maria Parr lives in Norway with her family.
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Gill Lewis
Before she could walk, Gill Lewis was discovered force-feeding bread to a sick hedgehog under the rose bushes. Now her stories reflect her passion for wild animals in wild places. She draws inspiration from many of the people she has had the fortune to meet during her work as a vet, both at home and abroad. Gill Lewis has a masters degree in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and won the 2009 course prize for most promising writer. Her first novel was snapped up for publication within hours of being offered to publishers. She lives in Somerset with her young family and a motley crew of pets. She writes from a shed in the garden, in the company of spiders.
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Prabda Yoon
See ปราบดา หยุ่น for Thai profile.
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Prabda Yoon (Thai: ปราบดา หยุ่น; RTGS: Prapda Yun; born 2 August 1973 in Bangkok) is a Thai writer, novelist, filmmaker, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor, screenwriter, translator and media personality. His literary debut, Muang Moom Shak (City of Right Angles), a collection of five related stories about New York City, and the follow-up story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), both published in 2000, immediately turned him into "...the talk of the town..." In 2002, Kwam Na Ja Pen won the S.E.A. Write Award, an award presented to accomplished Southeast Asian writers and poets.
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Dobrilo Nenadić
Dobrilo Nenadić je srpski književnik i diplomirani inžinjer agronomije. Rođen je u Vigoštu kod Arilja 23. oktobra 1940.godine. Do sada je objavio romane: "Dorotej", "Kiša", "Vreva", "Poplava", "Statist", "Divlje zvezde", "Roman o Obiliću", "Polarna svetlost", "Despot i žrtva", "Uragan", "Brajan", "Sablja grofa Vronskog", "Pobednici", "Mrzovolja kneza Bizmarka", "Hermelin", "Gvozdeno doba", dramu "Magla", knjigu novela "Ahilije". Po njegovom scenariju snimljen je film Dorotej 1981. godine.
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Nagrade:
* Nagrada Narodne biblioteke Srbije za najčitaniju knjigu
o za roman Dorotej 1978.
o za roman Despot i žrtva 1999.
* Nagrada Meša Selimović za roman Despot i žrtva 1998.
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Fred Bodsworth
Fred Bodsworth was born in Port Burwell, Ontario. He has worked in tobacco fields and on tow tugs. He now lives in Toronto. He was a reporter for the St. Thomas Times-Journal from 1940-43; reporter and editor for The Toronto Star from 1943-47; staff writer for Maclean's from 1947-55, and a freelance magazine writer, nature writer, and novelist since then. He was president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists from 1964-67. He was also an organizer and leader of numerous worldwide ornithology tours and has contributed to numerous anthologies.
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Guntis Berelis
Berelis ir studējis Latvijas Universitātes Fizikas un matemātikas fakultātē (1979—1981) un Latvijas Universitātes Filoloģijas fakultātes Bibliotēku zinātnes un bibliogrāfijas nodaļā.Strādājis par bibliotekāru Skujenē, kā arī žurnālā "Karogs" (1989—1992 un 2003—2010). 1986. gadā sācis publicēt literāros darbus. Izdevis vairākus stāstu krājumus, grāmatas bērniem. Tāpat rakstījis par postmodernisma iezīmēm latviešu prozā un citām tēmām. Par grāmatu "Neēd šo ābolu, tas ir mākslas darbs", kurā ir apskatīta 1990. gadu latviešu proza, saņēmis literatūras gada balvu literatūrzinātnē. 1994. gadā kļuvis par Latvijas Rakstnieku savienības biedru.
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G. Bereļa aktīvākais darbības laiks ir 20. gs. 90. gadi, kad viņš daudz raksta par jaunāko latviešu prozu, -
Maha Harada
原田 マハは、日本の小説家、キュレーター、カルチャーライター。東京都小平市生まれ。小学6年生から高校卒業まで岡山県岡山市育ち。岡山市立三門小学校、岡山市立石井中学校、山陽女子高等学校、関西学院大学文学部日本文学科、早稲田大学第二文学部美術史学専修卒業。マリムラ美術館、伊藤忠商事、森ビル、都市開発企業美術館準備室、ニューヨーク近代美術館に勤務後、2002年にフリーのキュレーターとして独立。
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2003年にカルチャーライターとして執筆活動を開始し、2005年には共著で『ソウルジョブ』上梓。そして同年、『カフーを待ちわびて』で第1回日本ラブストーリー大賞を受賞、特典として映画化される。mahaの名でケータイ小説も執筆する。
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Jurģis Liepnieks
Jurģis Liepnieks studējis sengrieķu un latīņu valodas un filozofiju, lielāko daļu dzīves strādājis kā sabiedrisko attiecību, statēģisko komunikāciju un politikas padomnieks. Bijis vairāku Latvijas ministru prezidentu un ministru padomnieks.
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Džeina Šteinberga
Džeina Šteinberga savu rakstītājas talantu slīpējusi žurnālistikā, sabiedriskajās attiecībās un reklāmā. Iedvesmu rod mūzikā kā daļa no simfoniskā metāla projekta Oceanpath. Bijusi starp godalgotajiem autoriem Zvaigzne ABC fantāzijas un fantastikas stāstu konkursos.
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2020.gada nogalē Zvaigzne ABC izdeva Džeinas debijas romānu - fantastikas darbu Lasītāja, kas Latvijas Nacionālās bibliotēkas Bērnu, jauniešu un vecāku žūrijas vērtējumā tika atzīta par labāko darbu vecuma kategorijai 15+.
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Johannes Itten
a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliche Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus.
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Milovan Vitezović
Milovan Vitezović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Витезовић) is a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter. He writes poetry, novels, essays, reviews, aphorisms, and movie and TV scripts. He has published more than forty books in over one hundred and fifty editions, and his works are represented in over fifty anthologies of Serbian and international poetry, stories for children, aphorism, fantasy, and television drama. His probably most famous works are his novels, such as Lajanje na zvezde and others, which became a part of regular curriculum in Serbian schools.
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Milovan Vitezović je srpski pisac, profesor i scenarista. Piše pesme, romane, eseje, kritike, aforizme, filmska i tv scenarija. Objavio je više -
Miyase Sertbarut
1963 yılında Ceyhan’da doğdu. Keloğlan, Jules Verne, Orhan Kemal ve Karabaşlarıyla büyüdü. Okula giderken hep karnı ağrıyordu. Yani o öyle zannediyordu... Gazi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünü bitirdi, yine karnı ağrıyordu. Öğretmenlik yaptı, karnının ağrısı geçmiyordu. Yazmaya radyo tiyatroları ile başladı. Öykü, roman, masal türlerinde yapıtlar verdi. Karnının ağrısı geçti. Kitapların bütün ağrılara iyi geldiğini düşünüyor.
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Jeong Hangyong
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* 정한경 (Korean)
* Jeong Hangyong (English)
* ชองฮันกย็อง (Thai)