Ito Ogawa
Ito Ogawa (小川 糸 Ogawa Ito; 1973) is a Japanese novelist, lyricist and translator.
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Ōgai Mori
Mori Ōgai, pseudonym of Mori Rintarō (born February 17, 1862, Tsuwano, Japan—died July 9, 1922, Tokyo), one of the creators of modern Japanese literature.
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The son of a physician of the aristocratic warrior (samurai) class, Mori Ōgai studied medicine, at first in Tokyo and from 1884 to 1888 in Germany. In 1890 he published the story “Maihime” (“The Dancing Girl”), an account closely based on his own experience of an unhappy attachment between a German girl and a Japanese student in Berlin. It represented a marked departure from the impersonal fiction of preceding generations and initiated a vogue for autobiographical revelations among Japanese writers. Ōgai’s most popular novel, Gan (1911–13; part translation: The Wild Goose), is the story of -
Natsuo Kirino
NATSUO KIRINO (桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages—she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.
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Antoni Libera
He is a Polish writer, translator, literary critic, and theater director. He graduated from Warsaw University and received his Ph. D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Pen Club, the Polish Writers Association, and the American Samuel Beckett Society.
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Libera is best known for his translations and productions of Samuel Beckett's plays. He has translated all Beckett’s dramatic works into Polish, as well as some of his other works. He has also directed many of Beckett’s plays in Poland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the U.S. Many famous Polish actors have appeared in those plays, including Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Maja Komorowska, Adam Ferency, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Andrzej Seweryn, along with actors fr -
Sonoko Machida
Sonoko Machida (町田 そのこ) nació en 1980 en Fukuoka (Japón). Comenzó su carrera en 2016 con el cuento Cameroon no aoi sakana (Pez azul en Camerún) por el que recibió el Premio R-18 que otorga la editorial Shinchosha. Publicada en abril de 2020 en Japón, 52 Hertz no kujira tachi (Las ballenas de 52 hercios) es su primera novela y ha obtenido el Premio de los Libreros de Japón en 2021.
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Rin Usami
Usami was born in Numazu, Shizuoka, and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture.She was awarded Bungei Prize for her first work Kaka (かか) in 2019. She was successively awarded Mishima Yukio Prize for the same work, which made her the youngest holder of the prize.She was also awarded the 164th Akutagawa Prize for her second work Oshi, Moyu (推し、燃ゆ).
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Thomas Morris
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Akira Yoshimura
Prize winning Japanese writer. Akira Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which in particular On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄,engl. prison break) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.
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Kenji Ueda
Kenji Ueda is a Japanese novelist known for blending fantasy with the charm of everyday life. Born in Tokyo in 1969, he made his debut as a writer in 2021 with Teppan (The Iron Griddle), the revised version of a work he wrote in 2019 for the 1st Japan Delicious Fiction Award.
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Murasaki Yamada
Murasaki Yamada (やまだ 紫, Yamada Murasaki), born Mitsuko Yamada (1948–2009) was a Japanese cartoonist, essayist and poet. She is considered a pioneer of literary comics, especially from a female perspective. Her work offered realistic portraits of women negotiating complicated family situations and social responsibilities.
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With a background in design, Yamada debuted in comics in 1969 with a story published in Osamu Tezuka's magazine 'COM'. Soon after that, she became a leading voice in the avantgarde manga magazine 'Garo'. Her manga work appeared in almost every issue of Garo from 1978 to 1986.
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Alice Procter
Alice A. Procter is an art historian and museum enthusiast. When she graduated in 2016 she couldn’t get a job, so she started an irreverent and low-tech podcast called The Exhibitionist, reviewing galleries and museums with friends and terrible background noise.
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That turned into Uncomfortable Art Tours, unofficial guided tours exploring how major institutions came into being against a backdrop of imperialism. She runs these regularly at six sites, exploring the role colonialism played in shaping and funding national collections, looking beyond the surface of paintings to unravel the ideological aesthetics at work.
Alice’s academic work concentrates on the intersections of postcolonial art practice and colonial material culture, the curation o -
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is the author of seven books, including Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University.
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Kaho Nashiki
Kaho Nashiki (Japanese: 梨木香歩 | Chinese: 梨木香步) (1959–) was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto. She writes for both children and adults, and much of her writing has fantasy-like motifs with religious or spiritual elements. Her 1994 novel about a girl and her grandmother, Nishi no majo ga shinda (The Witch of the West is Dead), received the JAWC New Talent Award, the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award, and the Niimi Nankichi Children's Literature Award, becoming a huge bestseller that was adapted into a movie. Her other works include Uraniwa (Back Yard), which won the 1995 Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, and Numachi no aru mori o nukete (Through the Swampy Woods), which garnered t
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Kikuko Tsumura
Kikuko Tsumura (Japanese name: 津村記久子) is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize.
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Ilaria Gaspari
Ilaria Gaspari ha studiato filosofia alla Scuola Normale di Pisa e si è laureata con una tesi sulle passioni all’università Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Nel 2015 è uscito il suo primo romanzo, Etica dell’acquario (Voland), nel 2018 Ragioni e sentimenti (Sonzogno). Collabora con diverse testate giornalistiche, tiene corsi di scrittura alla Scuola Holden, vive tra Roma e Parigi.
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Takeshi Kitano
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Jirō Asada
Jirō Asada (浅田 次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), a Japanese writer.
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Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.
In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was al -
Philippe Delerm
Philippe Delerm est né le 27 novembre 1950 à Auvers-sur-Oise. Ses parents étant instituteurs, il passe son enfance dans des «maisons d’école» : à Auvers, Louveciennes, Saint-Germain. Études de Lettres à la faculté de Nanterre, puis nommé professeur de lettres en Normandie. Il vit donc depuis 1975 à Beaumont-le-Roger (Eure), avec Martine, sa femme, également professeur de lettres et illustrateur-auteur d’albums pour enfants.
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Boris Pahor
Boris Pahor (born 28 August 1913) was a Slovene writer from Italy. He was considered to be one of the most important authors in the Slovene language and had been nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Pahor je bil rojen v Trstu leta 1913. Po dovršeni osnovni šoli je obiskoval katoliško Bogoslovno semenišče Koper (takrat, pod italijansko državo, Capodistria). Leta 1920 je bil priča požigu slovenskega Narodnega doma v Trstu, ki so ga izvedli italijanski fašisti, kot Tržačan pa tudi drugim zločinom, ki so bili storjeni nad v takratni Italiji živečim slovenskim prebivalstvom. V obdobju 2. svetovne vojne se je po propadu Mussolinijeve Italije in nemški okupaciji tržaške pokrajine na partizanski -
Yōko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.
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Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.
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Kim Wan
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Paul Begg
Paul Begg is acknowledged worldwide as one of the leading authorities on the Jack the Ripper mystery. He has worked in newspapers, television and publishing. He has written extensively on Jack the Ripper, including Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History and Jack the Ripper: The Facts. He is also the author of Into Thin Air, The Scotland Yard Files and Mary Celeste: The Greatest Mystery of the Sea. Paul was formerly the editor of the Ripperologist magazine and has appeared as an historical advisor on several television programmes.
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Fabrizia Ramondino
Fabrizia Ramondino (1936–2008) was an Italian author who has many works "which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, cultural and linguistic comment" according to Adalgisa Giorgio, who has conducted research of Ramondino's life and works.
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Ines Galiano
Inés Galiano nació en Murcia, y se graduó en Traducción en Interpretación en
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la UMU. Vivió 3 años en Tennessee, donde estudió Comunicación de radio, televisión y
cine; y trabajó en la cadena de TV local. Después se mudó a Barcelona a hacer el
curso de Dirección Cinematográfica en la ESCAC, donde se ha quedado a vivir y
trabaja como traductora, lingüista y gestora de proyectos.
Ha escrito y dirigido varios cortometrajes como Frames (Premio Latino Opera Prima) y
obras de teatro como Sonríe que estás más guapa con la compañía teatral Cia
Inyerface, o Cuatrocientas con Cia La Literata.
Desde 2020, podcastea en Furia en la librería y edita en la revista de ciencia ficción y fantasía Droids & Druids. Ha publicado varias novelas y ha ganado el Premio Igno -
Barbara J. King
Barbara J. King
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Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at The College of William and Mary. Professor King received her B.A. in anthropology from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.
Professor King’s research interests concern the social communication of the great apes, the closest living relatives to humans. She has studied ape and monkey behavior in Gabon, Kenya, and at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she has published three books on anthropology, including The Information Continuum: Social Information -
Durian Sukegawa
Durian Sukegawa studied oriental philosophy at Waseda University, before going on to work as a reporter in Berlin and Cambodia in the early 1990s. He has written a number of books and essays, TV programmes and films. He lives in Tokyo.
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Tarjei Vesaas
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such as death, guilt, angst, and other deep and intractable human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans (Menneskebonn), but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle (Det store spelet). His mastery of the nynorsk language, landsmål (see Norwegian language), has contributed to its acceptance as a medium of world class litera
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Michiko Aoyama
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.
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Liu Cathy
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Jacek Karczewski
Ja, Jacek, z pierwszego wykształcenia psycholog (studiowałem jeszcze francuski i ochronę Przyrody). Pracę zaczynałem jako nauczyciel i korepetytor, byłem też barmanem i dekoratorem - wreszcie przez wiele lat trenerem i konsultantem w dziedzinie zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi i komunikacji społecznej we własnej firmie Karczewski Doradztwo Personale. Ale ptaki nie dawały mi spokoju i wciąż uważałem, że to co robię nie jest dość ważne. Rozwojowe, satysfakcjonujące, nawet potrzebne – tak – ale na pewno nie tak ważne jak ochrona Przyrody…
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Kaho Nashiki
Kaho Nashiki (Japanese: 梨木香歩 | Chinese: 梨木香步) (1959–) was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto. She writes for both children and adults, and much of her writing has fantasy-like motifs with religious or spiritual elements. Her 1994 novel about a girl and her grandmother, Nishi no majo ga shinda (The Witch of the West is Dead), received the JAWC New Talent Award, the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award, and the Niimi Nankichi Children's Literature Award, becoming a huge bestseller that was adapted into a movie. Her other works include Uraniwa (Back Yard), which won the 1995 Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, and Numachi no aru mori o nukete (Through the Swampy Woods), which garnered t
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Mariko Koike
小池真理子 Mariko Koike is a popular detective and horror novelist. Koike was born in Tokyo and graduated from Seikei University. Her first collection of essays was Recommendations to Women of the World and it became a bestseller. She has been a novelist since her novel came out in 1986. Several of her novels have been translated in to English by Deborah Boliver Boehm.
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Shion Miura
Shion Miura (三浦しをん) (1976–) , daughter of a well-known Japanese classics scholar, acquired her love of reading at a very young age. When, as a senior in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, she began her job hunt looking for an editorial position, a literary agent recognized her writing talent and hired her to begin writing an online book review column even before she graduated. Miura made her fiction debut a year after finishing college, in 2000, when she published the novel Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight), based in part on her own experiences during the job hunt. When she won the Naoki Prize in 2006 for her linked-story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town), she had not
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Sanaka Hiiragi
Sanaka Hiiragi (JP: 柊サナカ) was born in 1974 in the Kagawa Prefecture. She graduated from Kobe Women's University, majored in literature, and completed her studies at Himeji Dokkyo University. After living and working overseas as a Japanese Language teacher for 7 years, her debut novel The Battle of Marriage Island was nominated for the Konomys Award in 2012 and was chosen as ‘The Hidden Jade’ by the editors in 2013. She is a big fan of cameras, photography, and kimono art.
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Craig Shreve
My name is Craig Shreve. I was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by the Canadian government as a National Historic Site due to its former status as a popular terminus on the Underground Railroad, the system of routes and safe houses that assisted slaves escaping from the southern states.
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From a young age I wanted to be a writer, but over the years pragmatism won out and I instead studied Computer Science at the University of Guelph. After graduating, I continued to write as a hobby, but I felt that I did not have enough life experiences. I set out to rectify that, which led me to a passion for extreme activities – skydiving, hang-gliding, bungy-jumping, rock-climbing, caving, rapelling, Running w -
Natsu Miyashita
宮下奈都 Natsu Miyashita was born in Fukui Prefecture on Honshu island, Japan, in 1967. She has had a lifelong passion for reading and writing and has played the piano since she was very young. The Forest Of Wool And Steel won the influential Japan Booksellers’ Award, in which booksellers vote for the title they most enjoy to hand-sell. It has also been turned into a popular Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki.
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Kiyoko Murata
En 1975, elle reçoit le prix du festival des arts de Kyushu pour « La voix de l’eau » ce qui l’encouragea fortement dans sa carrière littéraire. Son ouvrage « Le Chaudron » l’a ensuite rendue célèbre grâce à l’adaptation qu’en fit KUROSAWA Akira pour son film « Rhapsodie en août » sorti en 1991.
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Murasaki Yamada
Murasaki Yamada (やまだ 紫, Yamada Murasaki), born Mitsuko Yamada (1948–2009) was a Japanese cartoonist, essayist and poet. She is considered a pioneer of literary comics, especially from a female perspective. Her work offered realistic portraits of women negotiating complicated family situations and social responsibilities.
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With a background in design, Yamada debuted in comics in 1969 with a story published in Osamu Tezuka's magazine 'COM'. Soon after that, she became a leading voice in the avantgarde manga magazine 'Garo'. Her manga work appeared in almost every issue of Garo from 1978 to 1986.
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Rin Usami
Usami was born in Numazu, Shizuoka, and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture.She was awarded Bungei Prize for her first work Kaka (かか) in 2019. She was successively awarded Mishima Yukio Prize for the same work, which made her the youngest holder of the prize.She was also awarded the 164th Akutagawa Prize for her second work Oshi, Moyu (推し、燃ゆ).
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Michiko Aoyama
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.
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Hisashi Kashiwai
Hisashi Kashiwai was born in 1952 and was raised in Kyoto. He graduated from Osaka Dental University. After graduating, he returned to Kyoto and worked as a dentist. He has written extensively about his native city and has collaborated in TV programs and magazines.
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Chiara Valerio
Chiara Valerio è una scrittrice, traduttrice, editor, direttrice artistica e conduttrice radiofonica italiana.
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Ha conseguito un dottorato in Matematica all'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. È redattrice della rivista Nuovi Argomenti e ha collaborato al blog letterario Nazione Indiana. Ha scritto per il teatro e per la radio, ha collaborato con Il Sole 24 Ore e l'Unità e con la trasmissione culturale “Pane quotidiano”, Rai 3. Per l'editrice Nottetempo ha diretto la collana "narrativa.it", dedicata ai nuovi scrittori della narrativa italiana. Con Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella e Gaia Manzini ha scritto il soggetto del film di Nanni Moretti Mia madre, con Gianni Amelio e Alberto Taraglio ha scritto il soggetto del film di Gianni Amel -
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Michela Murgia
Michela Murgia è nata a Cabras nel 1972 ed è stata a lungo animatrice in Azione Cattolica. Ha fatto studi teologici ed è socia onoraria del Coordinamento teologhe italiane. Ha pubblicato nel 2006 Il mondo deve sapere che ha ispirato il film Tutta la vita davanti e nel 2009 il bestseller Accabadora, vincitore del Premio Campiello 2010.
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Kev Lambert
Kev (formerly Kevin) Lambert est né en 1992 et a grandi à Chicoutimi. Son premier roman Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, d’abord paru au Québec en 2017, puis en France en 2021, a fait du bruit en plus d’être finaliste du Prix Médicis, en sélection du Prix des libraires et de remporter le Prix découverte du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Son second roman, Querelle de Roberval, a fortement marqué la rentrée littéraire 2018. Il a été finaliste en 2019 du prix Wepler, du Prix littéraire des collégiens, du Prix des libraires et du Prix littéraire du Monde, avant de remporter le prix Sade, le prix Ringuet, le Prix du CALQ – Œuvre de la relève, et le Prix du roman décerné par le Salon du livre du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Il a également fait partie de la pre
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Noriko Morishita
Noriko Morishita (森下典子さん, Yokohama, 1956) is a Japanese author and reporter.
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Noriko Morishita was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1956. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women's University. While still an undergraduate, she began working as a reporter, gathering stories for Shukan Asahi magazine's popular Dekigotology column. Since publishing her experiences researching the column in the 1987 book Nori-yakko Dosue, she has enjoyed a flourishing career as an essayist and reporter. -
Aki Shimazaki
Aki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. Since 1991 she has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French. Her second novel, Hamaguri, won the Prix Ringuet in 2000.
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
David Foenkinos
David Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.
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His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.
Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kep -
Ryoko Sekiguchi
Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japanese: 関口 涼子) is a Japanese poet and translator.
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She studied journalism at Waseda University. After graduating, she studied History of Art at the Sorbonne and received a doctorate in comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Tokyo. She publishes her books in both French and Japanese and works for institutions like Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. -
Kanoko Okamoto
Kanoko Okamoto (岡本 かの子 Okamoto Kanoko?, 1 March 1889 - 18 February 1939) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Shuang Xuetao
Shuang Xuetao (Chinese: 双雪涛; born September 8, 1983, in Shenyang), is a contemporary Chinese novelist. He graduated from the Jilin University School of Law.
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In 2010, Shuang happened to see that the newly established China Times International Chinese-language Film and Fiction Award was seeking submissions. An employee of the Liaoning branch of the China Development Bank at the time, he wrote his first novel, Gargoyle in just 20 days, winning the award. In 2012, Shuang was shortlisted for the 14th Taipei Literature Awards, winning a cash-prize of 200,000 NTD, becoming the first mainland Chinese author to win the prize. That same year, Shuang quit his job to devote himself to writing full-time. In 2015, he left Shenyang to attend further studie -
Naoki Hyakuta
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* 百田 尚樹 (Japanese)
* 百田尚樹 (Chinese)
Naoki Hyakuta is a Japanese novelist and television producer. He is known for his right-wing political views and denying Japanese war crimes prior to and during World War II. He is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which became a popular 2013 film, his controversial period as a governor of government broadcaster NHK, as well as his support of Nanjing Massacre denial. Hyakuta has written a number of other books, several of which have been turned into films, such as Bokkusu and Monsuta. -
Laurence J. Peter
Dr. Laurence J. Peter was an educator and "hierarchiologist," best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
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Jolanta Brach-Czaina
Polska filozofka i feministka; profesor filozofii, wieloletnia wykładowczyni akademicka; autorka i współautorka książek z zakresu estetyki, filozofii sztuki i kultury, antropologii, gender studies.
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Zack Davisson
Zack Davisson is an award-winning translator, writer, and folklorist. He is the author of YUREI: THE JAPANESE GHOST, YOKAI STORIES, and KAIBYO: THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN, and the translator and curator of Shigeru Mizuki’s famous folklore comic KITARO, Matsumoto Leiji’s CAPTAIN HARLOCK, and Go Nagai’s DEVILMAN.
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Davisson lectured on translation, manga, and folklore at Duke University, UCLA, University of Washington, Denison University, as well as contributed to exhibitions at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and Henry Art Museum. He has been featured on NPR, BBC, and The New York Times, and has written articles for Metropolis, The Comics Journal, and Weird Tales Magazine.
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Kyōtarō Nishimura
Kyotaro Nishimura (pseudonym of Kihachiro Yajima, born 6 September 1930 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese writer of mystery stories. Nishimura is best known for his "train series" mysteries. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.
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Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, 1967–) set her sights on becoming a writer from an early age. Her debut novel—Kōfuku na yūgi (A Blissful Pastime), written while she was a university student—received the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. She has been working continuously as an author ever since, never having had to support herself with a separate job. Three nominations for the Akutagawa Prize serve as a measure of the promise with which she was regarded from early in her career. Then, at the encouragement of an editor, she shifted toward the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, where she garnered a much broader readership with works depicting the lives of women in her generation, from their mid-thirties to forties. After publishing two brill
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Angelika Kuźniak
Angelika Kuźniak ukończyła kulturoznawstwo na Uniwersytecie Europejskim we Frankfurcie nad Odrą (studiowała także lingwistykę na Universita degli Studi di Macerata we Włoszech). Od 2000 roku współpracuje z „Gazetą Wyborczą”. Dwukrotnie uhonorowana nagrodą Grand Press (2004: za Mój warszawski szał z Włodzimierzem Nowakiem; 2008: za Zabijali we mnie Heidi).
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Współautorka dwóch reportaży: Noc w Wildenhagen i Mój warszawski szał, zamieszczonych w nominowanym do Nagrody Literackiej NIKE 2008 tomie Włodzimierza Nowaka Obwód głowy (współpracowała z Nowakiem także przy powstaniu tytułowego reportażu).
Teksty te zostały przełożone na niemiecki (Die Nacht von Wildenhagen. Zwölf deutsch-polnische Schicksale, Eichborn 2009) i na rumuński (Mânia varşovian -
Nicole Bacharan
Nicole Bacharan est une politologue, spécialiste de la société américaine et des relations franco-américaines, connue pour ses livres et ses interventions à la télévision et à la radio en France et aux États-Unis. Elle est l’auteur de nombreux essais dont Faut-il avoir peur de l’Amérique ? ou Américains-Arabes, l’affrontement. Elle écrit également, en collaboration avec Dominique Simonnet, les romans de la série Némo.
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Diplômée de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et du Collège d'Europe de Bruges, Nicole Bacharan est chercheuse associée à la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (Sciences Po) et National Fellow de la Hoover Institution à l’Université Stanford en Californie.
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Simona Kossak
Simona Gabriela Kossak (30 May 1943 – 15 March 2007) was a Polish biologist, ecologist, and professor of forest sciences. Kossak is known for her efforts to preserve the remnants of natural ecosystems in Poland. Her work dealt with, among other things, the behavioral ecology of mammals. She sometimes referred to herself as a "zoo-psychologist."
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Noriko Morishita
Noriko Morishita (森下典子さん, Yokohama, 1956) is a Japanese author and reporter.
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Noriko Morishita was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1956. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women's University. While still an undergraduate, she began working as a reporter, gathering stories for Shukan Asahi magazine's popular Dekigotology column. Since publishing her experiences researching the column in the 1987 book Nori-yakko Dosue, she has enjoyed a flourishing career as an essayist and reporter. -
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James W. Pennebaker
James Pennebaker is an American social psychologist and husband of Ruth Pennebaker. He is the Centennial Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. His research focuses on the relationship between natural language use, health, and social behavior, most recently "how everyday language reflects basic social and personality processes"
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Marcin Szczygielski
Polish writer, graphic designer, journalist & interior designer.
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Piotr Milewski
Born in Chełm, raised in Opole. Studied in Poznań (Poland), Vienna, Passau (Germany), Sapporo and Otaru (Japan).
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Akio Morisawa
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* Akio Morisawa
* 森沢 明夫 (Japanese Profile)
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Oswald Wynd
Aka Gavin Black
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From Wikipedia:
Oswald Wynd (1913 – 1998) was a Scottish writer, born in Tokyo of parents who had left their native Perth to run a mission in Japan.
He attended schools in Japan where he grew up speaking both English and Japanese. In 1932 he returned with his parents to Scotland, and studied at the University of Edinburgh and began to write novels. When World War II came he joined the Scots Guards but was then commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and sent to Malaya. At the time of the Japanese invasion, he was attached to the Indian Army on the east coast of Malaya, and his brigade covered the final withdrawal to Singapore. Cut off by the Japanese advance, he was lost alone for a week in the Johor jungle. Eventually he wa -
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Minae Mizumura
Minae Mizumura (水村 美苗 Mizumura Minae, born 1951) is a novelist currently writing in the Japanese language.
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Educated in the US, she wrote her first published work in the English language, a scholarly essay on the literary criticism of Paul de Man. She is often portrayed as a Japanese novelist who questions the conventional boundaries of national literature. Her novels include Light and Darkness Continued, An I-Novel, and A True Novel, which has been selected for the Japanese Literature Publishing Project, a national program to promote translations of Japanese literature. She also writes essays and literary criticism in major newspapers and journals. Many of Minae Mizumura's works have been described as highly readable and often entertaining, -
Marcin Bruczkowski
Martin Bruczkowski was born in 1965 in Warsaw. From 1983 to 1986 he studied at the English Department of the Warsaw University, then moved to Tokyo to read comparative culture. He intended to live in Japan for a year, instead, he stayed for ten. In 1996 he got so cold in an unheated Japanese flat that he decided to move to the Equator and spent the subsequent five years in Singapore. He worked as a teacher, IT consultant, translator, sound engineer, actor, graphic designer and... a drummer. In 2001 he returned to Warsaw, where he lives happily ever after with his wife Kit and son Alexander.
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Juliusz Strachota
Juliusz Strachota - napisał m.in. powieści ''Relaks amerykański" oraz "Turysta polski w ZSRR". Za tę drugą nominowany był do Nagrody Literackiej Nike. Razem z Jakubem Żulczykiem prowadził podcast "Co ćpać po odwyku".
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Bolesław Leśmian
Bolesław Leśmian (actually Bolesław Lesman) was a Polish poet of Jewish descent. He was an artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century in Poland, one of the best poets of 20th century and cousin of another notable poet of the epoch - Jan Brzechwa and a nephew of famous poet and writer of Young Poland - Antoni Lange.
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Charles Aznavour
Beloved French chanson entertainer Charles Aznavour, who wrote more than 800 songs, recorded more than 1,000 of them in French, English, German and Spanish and sold over 100 million records in all, was born Chahnour Varinag Aznavourian on May 22, 1924, in Paris, the younger of two children born to Armenian immigrants who fled to France. His mother was a seamstress as well as an actress and his father was a baritone who sang in restaurants. Both Charles and his sister waited on tables where he performed. He delivered his first poetic recital while just a toddler. Within a few years later he had developed such a passion for singing/dancing, that he sold newspapers to earn money for lessons.
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Roberto Casati
Roberto Casati è un filosofo italiano. Direttore di Ricerca al Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) all'Institut Nicod, École normale supérieure di Parigi, è autore di saggi specialistici e di divulgazione, e ha insegnato in diverse università europee e statunitensi.
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