Gou Tanabe
Gou Tanabe is a Japanese creator of Manga.
Also known as 田辺 剛.
(Some prefer the spelling Gō Tanabe, but Gou Tanabe is used on his published books so far.)
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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina when he was three years old. After leaving school, Breccia worked in a tripe packing plant and in 1938 he got a job for the magazine El Resero, where he wrote articles and drew the covers.
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He began to work professionally in 1939, when he joined the publishing house Manuel Láinez. He worked on magazines such as Tit-Bits, Rataplán and El Gorrión where he created comic strips such as Mariquita Terremoto, Kid Río Grande, El Vengador (based on a popular novel), and other adaptations.
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Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His comic book work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly magazine 'RAW' in the mid-1980s. Nowadays, Burns is best known for the horror/coming of age graphic novel Black Hole, originally serialised in twelve issues between 1995 and 2004. The story was eventually collected in one volume by Pantheon Books and received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. His following works X'ed Out (2010), The Hive (2012), Sugar Skull (2014), Last Look (2016) and Last Cut (2024) have also been published by Pantheon Books, although the latter was first released in France as a series of three French comic albums.
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Arthur Machen
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Marina Shirakawa
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Kazuo Koike
Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, Koike Kazuo) was a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.
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Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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Shin'ichi Sakamoto
Sakamoto Shin'ichi (坂本眞一) is a Japanese mangaka.
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Kohske
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コースケ
Ko-suke
Kosuke
Koosuke
Kohske made her manga debut in 2009 with the short story "Postman" in Shonen GanGan magazine. Her first ongoing serial, GANGSTA., began in 2010. Her second series, DOODLE, began serialization in 2013. She currently resides in Hokkaido and owns a pet java sparrow named Fumi. -
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Shintaro Kago
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Kago specialises in ero-guro, a Japanese visual genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and grotesque body horror. Many of Kago's manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. His unique style has been called "fashionable paranoia". -
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Inio Asano
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Asano was born in 1980 and produced his first amateur comics as a teenager. His professional debut happened in 2000 in the pages of the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Since then, he has collaborated with most of the major Japanese magazines of seinen manga (comics for a mature audience). Among Asano's internationally acclaimed works are: the psychological horror Nijigahara Holograph (2003-2005); the drama Solanin (2005-2006); the existentialistic slice-of-life Goodnight Punpun (2007-2013); the erotic A Girl on the Shore (2009-2013); the sci-fi De -
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H.P. Lovecraft
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William Gibson
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.
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Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
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Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
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Furuya showed an interest in comics making since elementary school. He graduated from Tama Art University, where he had studied sculpture and oil painting.
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Michael Hague
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Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent.
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Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction (Psycho). He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle; Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent.
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.
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Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird sho -
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William C. Westmoreland
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Dan Whalen
Dan Whalen is the culinary mad-genius creator of the popular recipe blog The Food in my Beard and the author of Stuffed: The Ultimate Comfort Food Cookbook and the forthcoming The Comfort Food Mash-Up. Since starting his website in 2008, he has published more than 1,000 recipes that have been viewed over 6 million times, and has produced numerous viral videos including a Quesadilla-Bun Burger video that has racked up 24 million views. His work has been featured in Saveur, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, Fine Cooking, Boston.com, MSNBC, and Huffington Post, among others. He lives in Boston, MA.
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S.T. Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi is an Indian American literary scholar, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors. Besides what some critics consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft (H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, 1996), Joshi has written about Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, Lord Dunsany, and M.R. James, and has edited collections of their works.
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His literary criticism is notable for its emphases upon readability and the dominant worldviews of the authors in question; his The Weird Tale looks at six acknowledged masters of horror and fantasy (namely Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Dunsany, M. R. James, Bierce and Lovecraft), and discusses their respective worldviews in depth and with authority. A follow- -
Emerson W. Baker
A specialist in the history of 17th century Maine, Emerson "Tad" Baker II is a historical archaeologist and professor of history at Salem State University. He is well known in academic circles for his extensive work on witchcraft in Colonial America, as well as for his work on numerous archaeological sites along the East Coast of the United States.
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Patti Laboucane-Benson
Patti LaBoucane-Benson is a Métis woman and the Director of Research, Training, and Communication at Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA). She has been very fortunate to work with the amazing people at NCSA for 20 years!
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She has a Ph.D. in Human Ecology, focusing on Aboriginal Family Resilience. Her research focusses on how providing historic trauma healing opportunities for Aboriginalpeople builds resilience in Aboriginal families and communities. Patti was awarded the two top Canadian social sciences doctoral awards: The Pierre Elliot Trudeau scholarship and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
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Ana Juan
Ana Juan is an illustrator and painter.
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After graduating in Fine Arts from Universidad Politécnica in Valencia (1982), she moved to Madrid at the height of the movida madrileña and in the early 1980s she collaborated with magazines such as La Luna and Madriz.
In 1991 she temporarily moved to Paris and exhibited in Geneve and New York; in 1994 she received a fellowship by the Japanese publishing house Kodansha and lived in Japan for three months.
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Peter Lindbergh
Lindbergh was born in Poland and grew up in Duisburg. He studied painting in art school, but began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer. Moving to Paris in 1978, to concentrate on high-fashion, he photographed many top models including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Isabella Rossellini, Nastassja Kinski and Tatjana Patitz as well as other projects with Karl Lagerfeld, Daryl Hannah, Giorgio Armani and more. His photographs have been published by Stern, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines. He also photographed Céline Dion for her perfume ad. A new upcoming project is an advert video shoot for Mariah Carey’s new fragrance, "M".
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Steve Gerber
Steve Gerber graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in communications and took a job in advertising. To keep himself sane, he wrote bizarre short stories such as "Elves Against Hitler," "Conversion in a Terminal Subway," and "...And the Birds Hummed Dirges!" He noticed acquaintance Roy Thomas working at Marvel, and Thomas sent him Marvel's standard writing test, dialoguing Daredevil art. He was soon made a regular on Daredevil and Sub-Mariner, and the newly created Man-Thing, the latter of which pegged him as having a strong personal style--intellectual, introspective, and literary. In one issue, he introduced an anthropomorphic duck into a horror fantasy, because he wanted something weird and incongruous, and Thomas made t
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Asia Argento
Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian television and film actress and director. Her mother is actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies.
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Nicole Claveloux
Nicole Claveloux is a French painter, illustrator and comic book artist.
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She was born in 1940 in Saint-Étienne, where she also studied fine arts. She moved to Paris in 1966, to work as an illustrator and comics artist. Her work appeared on a number of magazines, including 'Planète', 'Okapi', 'Marie Claire', 'Charlie Mensuel', as well as the alternative comics magazines 'Métal Hurlant' and 'Ah! Nana'. -
Max Ernst
Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism.
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David R. Flores
David R. Flores is a writer-illustrator originally from New York. His debut novel, "Control; Alt; Delete: Dr. Stundel's Program To Reboot Your Dangerous Teen" was adapted from his award-winning screenplay. Along with co-creating "The InSpectres," David created and illustrated "Dead Future King," published by Golden Apple Books. Presently, he's co-writing and illustrating another graphic novel with his writing partner, Jarod Hunter Roe. David loves art, comics, films, music (particularly the electric bass), and most of all being a husband and a father.
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Matthew Davenport
Matthew Davenport hails from Des Moines, Iowa where he lives with his wife, Ren, and daughter, Willow.
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He puts up a new chapter every Wednesday on his Patreon. http://patreon.com/matthewdavenport
You can keep track of Matthew through his twitter account @spazenport.
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Hermann Burger
Hermann Burger was born in 1942 in Burg, Canton of Aargau; his father worked for an insurance company. He enrolled at the ETH Zurich in 1962 and began studying architecture, but switched to German literature and art history in 1964. The publication of the poetry collection "Rauchsignale" ("Smoke Signals") in 1967 marked the beginning of his literary career, followed by the prose collection Bork in 1970. For the next couple of years Burger focused on his career in literary studies, writing his thesis on Paul Celan and his habilitation treatise on contemporary Swiss literature. He taught at universities in Zurich, Bern and Fribourg and worked as a literary editor for the Aargauer Tagblatt. His academic experience is reflected in the loosely a
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Stephen Skinner
Dr. Stephen Skinner, Ph.D. (Classics, University of Newcastle, 2014) author, editor, publisher, and lecturer. He is known for authoring books on magic, feng shui, sacred geometry, and alchemy. He has published more than 46 books in more than 20 languages.
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Miguelanxo Prado
Inicia su trayectoria en el fanzine Zero, junto a otros reputados autores de su generación, como José María Beroy, Pascual Ferry, Antoni Garcés, Das Pastoras o Mike Ratera.
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Al final ya del boom del cómic adulto, consigue publicar en las mejores revistas de la época, como Creepy, Comix Internacional, 1984, Zona 84, El Jueves, Cairo y Cimoc. De esa época son sus seriales "Fragmentos de la Enciclopedia Délfica", "Stratos", "Crónicas Incongruentes", "Quotidiania Delirante" y "Tangencias".
A principios de la década de los 90 su obra se hace más escasa, dedicándose al diseño de personajes animados en televisión, para la televisión de Galicia en el programa Xabarín Club y en Estados Unidos en la serie Men in Black , cuyo productor era Steven Spielbe -
Cat Farris
Cat Farris is a Portland, OR-based comic artist and illustrator, and a member of the comics collective known as Helioscope.
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She is the artist for the Dark Horse comic series EMILY AND THE STRANGERS, and MY BOYFRIEND IS A BEAR from Oni Press. She is creator and producer of the comic series FLACCID BADGER and the web comic THE LAST DIPLOMAT. She has also done some short pieces for PLANTS VS ZOMBIES, BANDETTE, HARROW COUNTY(Dark Horse), RICK AND MORTY, THE SIXTH GUN(Oni Press), as well as for independent anthology collections CAUTIONARY FABLES AND FAIRY TALES: ASIA, and CAN I PET YOUR WEREWOLF. -
Paul La Farge
Paul La Farge was the author of four novels: The Night Ocean (The Penguin Press, 2017); The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's Books, 2005).
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He was the grateful recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2013-14. He lived in a subterranean ‘annex’ in upstate New York, where he was almost certainly up to no good. -
Eiji Otsuka
大塚英志
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Social anthropologist and novelist. Graduated from college with degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and “otaku” sub-cultures. One of his first animation script works was Maho no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Otsuka was the editor for the bishojo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie.
In the 80s, Otsuka was editor-in-chief of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered research on the “otaku” sub-culture in modern Japan. In 1988 he published "Manga no Koro" (The Structure of Comics), a serious study of Japanese comics and their social sig -
Paul Malmont
The author of THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL and his latest, JACK LONDON IN PARADISE."
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Paul Willems
Paul Willems était un écrivain francophone Belge.
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Paul Willems dans la Wikipédia française
Paul Willems was een Belgische franstalige schrijver.
Paul Willems in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
Paul Willems in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
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Tarō Bonten
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ISHII Kiyomi
凡天 太郎.
Bonten Tarō was born as Ishii Kiyomi in Tokyo in 1928.
He was also a tattooist and enka ballad singer.
Wrote gekiga 'Half-breed Rika' in Shukan Myojo, which later into movie by Tōei Studios. -
Ivy Grimes
Recent author of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion (Cemetery Gates) and Glass Stories (Grimscribe Press).
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Published in The Baffler, ergot., Maudlin House, hex, and by other nice people. -
Santiago Sánchez Kutika
Se recibió en la Universidad del cine y al presente estudia Artes en la UBA. Como guionista, sus trabajos fueron publicados en las antologías Creer o reventar, De Once a Moreno y Clítoris, de El Hotel de las ideas. Ganador del concurso Creacómic en España. Actualmente, trabaja en el blog de la revista Fierro y colabora con la publicación Maten al mensajero.
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L.A. Lewis
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There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Balázs Tátrai
Writer and musician bewitched by folk tales. My latest work, The Book of Forgotten Witches: Dark and Twisted Folklore Stories from Around the World, is available in hardback, ebook and audiobook by Watkins Publishing. Find out more at: balazstatrai.com
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.
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Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Buckminster Fuller was the second president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983. -
L.A. Lewis
Leslie Allin Lewis was the only child of Arthur Henry Lewis (b. 1872), a brewery expert according to the 1911 UK Census, and Catharine (sometimes Catherine) Mary Ann Allin (1870-1962), who were married at Wantage, Berkshire, in the spring of 1896.
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Leslie grew up at the Allin family estate at East Hendred in Berkshire, and was educated at Roysse’s School in Abingdon (now named Abingdon School). As a boy he wrote and illustrated a series of stories about a panther named Blackie. During World War I he joined the Artist’s Rifles, and trained as a pilot, taking his certificate on the Maurice Farman Biplane at the Military School in Ruislip, on 29 May 1917. According to Richard Dalby, he served in France for a year, and after the war he took a co -
Enrique Sánchez Abulí
Enrique Sánchez Abulí (born 20 February 1945) is a Spanish comics author, well known for his participation in the Spanish comics industry. His most famous work is the darkly comical gangster comics saga Torpedo in collaboration with Jordi Bernet.
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John Elizabeth Stintzi
John Elizabeth Stintzi is an award-winning trans writer and visual artist who was born and raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario, and is currently writing and living in the United States.
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They are the winner of the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, the 2019 Long Poem Prize from The Malahat Review, and the inaugural Sator New Works Award from Two Dollar Radio. Their work has been published in places like Ploughshares,Black Warrior Review, PRISM International, Kenyon Review Online, and Best Canadian Poetry.
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Keiko Takemiya
Keiko Takemiya (竹宮惠子), earlier known as 竹宮恵子 (note: it's the first kanji in her given name, 恵→惠) is a Japanese mangaka.
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She is one of the 24-Gumi (Magnificent 49ers), the group of female manga artists that pioneered the shoujo genre. Professor of manga studies at Kyoto Seika University.
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Jan Křesadlo
Jan Křesadlo was a pseudonym of Václav Pinkava.
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An anti-communist, he emigrated to Britain with his wife and four children following the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet-led armies of the Warsaw pact. A polymath and polyglot, he worked as a Clinical Psychologist until his early retirement in 1982, when he turned to full-time prose and poetry writing, under his main pseudonym of Jan Kresadlo. His first novel Mrchopevci (GraveLarks) was published by Zdena Salivarová and Josef Škvorecký's emigre '68 Publishers, and obtained the 1984 Egon Hostovský prize.