Fresh Guo Guo
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* Fresh Guo Guo
* Fresh果果 (Chinese Profile)
* 과과 (Korean Profile)
* Fresh กั่วกัว (Thai Profile)
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Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. In 1870, her mother died. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan M. Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. The Bu -
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I was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. In 2015, I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by UEA.
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José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.
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Osamu Dazai
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Keigo Higashino
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* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.
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Name (in native language): 新海 誠
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Makoto Shinkai
Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠 Shinkai Makoto?), born as Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠 Niitsu Makoto?, February 9, 1973) is a Japanese director of anime and former graphic designer. A native of the Nagano Prefecture, Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle school. His favorite anime is Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miyazaki. Shinkai has been called "The New Miyazaki" in several reviews including Anime Advocates and ActiveAnime, comparisons which he calls an "overestimation". -
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh là tên và cũng là bút danh của một nhà văn Việt Nam chuyên viết cho tuổi mới lớn. Ông sinh ngày 7 tháng 5 năm 1955 tại huyện Thăng Bình, Quảng Nam.
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Cuộc đời và sự nghiệp
Thuở nhỏ ông theo học tại các trường Tiểu La, Trần Cao Vân và Phan Chu Trinh. Từ 1973 Nguyễn Nhật Ánh chuyển vào sống tại Sài Gòn, theo học ngành sư phạm. Ông đã từng đi Thanh niên xung phong, dạy học, làm công tác Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng Sản Hồ Chí Minh. Từ 1986 đến nay ông là phóng viên nhật báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng, lần lượt viết về sân khấu, phụ trách mục tiểu phẩm, phụ trách trang thiếu nhi và hiện nay là bình luận viên thể thao trên báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Chủ nhật với bút danh Chu Đình Ngạn. Ngoài ra, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh còn có những bút danh khác như Anh Bồ Câu, -
Kanae Minato
Kanae MINATO (湊 かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.
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She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.
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Phạm Lữ Ân
Phạm Lữ Ân không phải là một tác giả mà là bút danh của đôi vợ chồng Phạm Công Luận – Đặng Nguyễn Đông Vy. Đây đều là hai cây viết tạo được tên tuổi trong lòng độc giả cả nước. Nếu bạn đã từng đọc truyện của Phạm Lữ Ân chắc hẳn đều cảm nhận được sự mộc mạc,chân thành, giản dị nhưng sâu sắc ở cây bút này.
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Những vấn đề mà tác giả này đưa vào trong những câu truyện của mình thường rất gần gũi, thân quen nhưng được nhìn nhận từ nhiều phía, soi chiếu dưới nhiều góc độ nên vẫn có được sự khác lạ sâu sắc và vô cùng lôi cuốn. -
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Chan Ho-Kei
Chan Ho-Kei 陳浩基 was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, scriptwriter, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started in 2008 at the age of thirty-three, with the short story ‘The Case of Jack and the Beanstalk,’ which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He went on to win the award again the following year with ‘The Locked Room of Bluebeard.’
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In 2011, Chan’s first novel, THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD, won the biggest mystery prize in the Chinese-speaking world, the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, and has subsequently been published in Taiwan (Crown), China (New Star), Japan (Bungeishunju), Thailand (Nanmee) and Italy (Metropoli d’Asia). -
Gu Man
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* Gu Man (English)
* 顾漫 (Chinese)
* กู้ม่าน (Thai)
* Cố Mạn (Vietnamese)
Romanization of 顾漫.
Gu Man, born in 1981, is a renowned internet novelist in China who also works as a writer for Jinjiang Literature City. Her published works include: "Silent Separation", "Just One Smile is Alluring", "Shan Shan Comes to Eat" and "Blazing Sunlight". Some of her popular works have been adapted into drama series and films. Although her books are well-liked by many, she is rather slow in her writing, with only several books published and a few incomplete works. Hence, her nickname is ‘turtle’. (来源:百度百科) (source: baidu)'