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  A.A. Navis

  Ali Akbar Navis was a journalist and potential writer. He was a full time writer for Sripo and writes so many stories.
  
  His famous books was “Robohnya Surau Kami” which became a monumental work for Indonesian literature. His last work is "Simarandang" a social-culture journal which been published on April 2003.
  
  A.A. Navis passed away at age 79.

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  Henry James

  Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
  He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in

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  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
  Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh

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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.
  
  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

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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  Nawal El Saadawi

  Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.
  
  From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a resu

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  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics, and histories of his homeland and its people. A well-regarded writer in the West, Pramoedya's outspoken and often politically charged writings faced censorship in his native land during the pre-reformation era. For opposing the policies of both founding president Sukarno, as well as those of its successor, the New Order regime of Suharto, he faced extrajudicial punishment. During the many years in which he suffered imprisonment and house arrest, he became a cause célèbre for advocates of freedom of expression and human rights.
  
  Bibliography:
  * Kranji-Bekasi Jatuh (1947)
  * Perburuan (The Fugitive) (1950)
  * Keluarga Gerilya (1950)
  * Bukan Pasarmalam (1951)
  * C

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  Keigo Higashino

  Associated Names:
  * 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.
  
  In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and pu

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  Raditya Dika

  Raditya Dika is an Indonesian comedy writer. His first book was a collection of his humorous blog entries, entitled Kambingjantan: Catatan Harian Pelajar Bodoh (Malegoat: Diary of a Stupid Student).
  
  His second book chronicles his unbeliavebly jinxed love life, entitled Cinta Brontosaurus (Brontosaurus Love). Published a year following the success of his previous work. His latest books, bearing the title Radikus Makankakus: Bukan Binatang Biasa (Radikus Makankakus: Not Your Ordinary Animal) & Babi Ngesot (Sliding Pig) follows the tone of his previous works.
  
  All of his books targets the stupidity and self-depreciating ridiculousness of a boy trying to get to adulthood, along with the absurdity of everyday life.
  
  Currently he's working as directo

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  Ahmad Tohari

  Ahmad Tohari is Indonesia well-knowned writer who can picture a typical village scenery very well in his writings. He has been everywhere, writings for magazines. He attended Fellowship International Writers Program at Iowa, United State on 1990 and received Southeast Asian Writers Award on 1995.
  
  His famous works are trilogy of Srintil, a traditional dancer (ronggeng) of Paruk Village: "Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk", "Lintang Kemukus Dini Hari", and "Jantera Bianglala"
  
  On 2007, he releases again "Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk" in Java-Banyumasan language which is claimed to be the first novel using Java-Banyumasan. Toward his effort, he receives Rancage Award 2007. The book is only printed 1,500 editions and sold out directly in the book launch.
  
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  Y.B. Mangunwijaya

  Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya was an architect, writer, Catholic priest, and activist. Romo Mangun (Father Mangun) was publicly known by his novel "Burung-Burung Manyar" which was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for South-East Asia Writings on 1996.
  
  Not only active in the fiction genre, Romo Mangun also wrote many non-fiction and architectural works such as "Sastra dan Religiositas" [tr.: Literature and Religiosity] which won The Best Non-Fiction prize in 1982.
  
  Bibliography:
  * Balada Becak, novel, 1985
  * Balada dara-dara Mendut, novel, 1993
  * Burung-Burung Rantau, novel, 1992
  * Burung-Burung Manyar, novel, 1981
  * Di Bawah Bayang-Bayang Adikuasa, 1987
  * Durga Umayi, novel, 1985
  * Esei-esei orang Republik, 1987
  * Fisika Bangunan, buku Arsitektur, 1980
  * Ge

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  A.A. Navis

  Ali Akbar Navis was a journalist and potential writer. He was a full time writer for Sripo and writes so many stories.
  
  His famous books was “Robohnya Surau Kami” which became a monumental work for Indonesian literature. His last work is "Simarandang" a social-culture journal which been published on April 2003.
  
  A.A. Navis passed away at age 79.

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  Ratih Kumala

  Ratih Kumala, lahir di Jakarta, tahun 1980. Buku pertamanya, novel berjudul Tabula Rasa (Grasindo 2004, GPU 2014), memenangkan Sayembara Menulis Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2003. Novel keduanya, Genesis (Insist Press, 2005). Kumpulan cerita pendeknya, Larutan Senja (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2006). Buku keempat berjudul Kronik Betawi (novel/GPU, 2009) yang sebelum terbit sebagai buku juga terbit sebagi cerita bersambung di harian Republika 2008. Buku kelimanya berjudul Gadis Kretek (GPU, 2012) dan buku keenamnya adalah Bastian dan Jamur Ajaib (GPU, 2015). Novelnya Gadis Kretek (GPU, 2012) masuk dalam Top 5 kategori prosa Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2012, dan telah diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Inggris –Cigarette Girl (GPU, 2015), bahasa Jerman – D

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• Sjuman Djaya

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  Kahlil Gibran

  Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران ) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.
  Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
  He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written

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• Henry Manampiring

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  Asmira Fhea

  an extrovert writer who loves chocolate.

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  Rio Johan

  Rio Johan was born in Baturaja, South Sumatra, 1990. Rio has been invited to speak at The Ubud Reader's & Writer's festival (2015), was on a sponsored residency in Berlin, Germany (2016) and has been the recipient of the 2014 Prose Book of Choice by Tempo for his short story collection, "Aksara Amananunna", and the 2018 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for his novel, "Ibu Susu".

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• Sabda Armandio

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• Lee Kyu Young

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• Brilliant Yotenaga

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• Minanto

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  Cho Nam-Joo

  Associated Names:
  * 조남주 (Korean)
  * Cho Nam-Joo (English)
  * 趙南柱 (Chinese)
  * โชนัมจู (Thai)
  * チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)
  
  Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 she drew partly on her own experience as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.
  
  Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is her third novel. It has had a profound impact on gender inequality and discrimination in Korean society, and has been translated into 18 languages.

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• Titah AW

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  Bora Chung

  Bora Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She has an MA in Russian and East European area studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. She currently teaches Russian language and literature and science fiction studies at Yonsei University and translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean.

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