Junichi Saga
Junichi Saga (佐賀 純一 Saga Jun'ichi?, born 1941) is a Japanese countryside physician and writer whose work records countryside experiences of numerous individuals (typically, his patients).
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Alan Booth
Alan Booth was born in London in 1946 and traveled to Japan in 1970 to study Noh theater. He stayed, working as a writer and film critic, until his death from cancer in 1993.
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Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
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Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and num -
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).
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Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of -
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, in two categories, in 1979 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, he died in April 2014.
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Alex Kerr
Born in 1952, he's an American writer and Japanologist that has lived in Japan since 1977.
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Kakuzō Okakura
Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉覚三), also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar who contributed the development of arts in Japan. Outside Japan, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of The Book of Tea .
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Born in Yokohama to parents originally from Fukui, Okakura learned English while attending a school operated by Christian missionary, Dr. Curtis Hepburn. At 15, he entered Tokyo Imperial University, where he first met and studied under Harvard-educated professor Ernest Fenollosa. In 1889, Okakura co-founded the periodical Kokka. A year later he was one of the principal founders of the first Japanese fine-arts academy, the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校 Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō), and a year later became its head, although he was -
Yōko Ogawa
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
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A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og -
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.
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 -
Shōko Tendō
With her dyed-brown long hair and tight designer jeans, Shoko Tendo looks like any other stylish young Japanese woman -- until she removes her shirt to reveal the vivid tattoos covering her back and most of her body. The elaborate dragons, phoenixes and a medieval courtesan with one breast bared and a knife between her teeth are a symbol of Tendo's childhood as the daughter of a "yakuza" gangster and her youth as a drug-using gang member.
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The author of "Yakuza Moon," a best-selling memoir just out in English, the 39-year-old Tendo says that police efforts to eradicate the gangsters have merely made them harder to track. "The more the police push, the more the yakuza are simply going underground, making their activities harder to follow than -
Mona Chollet
Mona Chollet is a Franco-Swiss writer and journalist. She is the chief editor for Le Monde diplomatique and has also written for Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris, France.
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Après une licence en lettres à Genève, elle étudie le journalisme à l’École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.
Elle est ensuite pigiste pour Charlie Hebdo. Mais son contrat est interrompu en 2000 après sa contestation d'un éditorial du directeur de la rédaction Philippe Val, qui qualifiait les Palestiniens de « non-civilisés ». Elle raconte : « Quelques jours après, il m’a convoquée, et il m’a annoncé qu’il arrêtait mon CDI après le mois d’essai, alors que j’étais pigiste depuis un an. Ça m’a sidérée »1.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.
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He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.
After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing st -
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017--and is unlikely to ever achieve satori. That's okay. He's considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan and works as a writer and consultant in Japan, the United States and France. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: A Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and has written two other books published by Marchialy in France.
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𝗝’𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗔̂𝗠𝗘 𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗦 (I Sold My Soul For Bitcoins) 2019 -
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994).
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Following several box office failures, Reeves's performance in the horror film The Devil's Advocate (1997) was well received. Greater stardom came for playing Neo in the science fiction series The Matrix, beginn -
Bartosz Sztybor
Bartosz Sztybor - polski dziennikarz, publicysta, krytyk filmowy i komiksowy, scenarzysta komiksowy. Wielokrotny laureat konkursu na krótką formę komiksową na MFK. Publikował m.in. w pismach Ozon, Wprost, Esensja, Chichot, Machina, Cinema, periodykach komiksowych i zinach.
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Kateřina Tučková
Kateřina Tučková (nar. 1980) vystudovala dějiny umění a bohemistiku na FF MU v Brně, v současné době pracuje jako kurátorka. Debutovala novelou Montespaniáda (2006), v roce 2009 vydala román Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, za který obdržela cenu Magnesia Litera 2010 – Knižní klub Cena čtenářů a byla nominována na Cenu Josefa Škvoreckého, Magnesii Literu za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena. Je autorkou několika odborných publikací z oblasti českého výtvarného umění, na pomezí historie a krásné literatury se pohybuje beletrizovaný životopis Můj otec Kamil Lhoták (2008).
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Yū Miri
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* Yū Miri (English)
* 柳美里 (Japanese, Chinese)
* 유미리 (Korean)
is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist. Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea.
Yū was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, to Korean parents. After dropping out of the Kanagawa Kyoritsu Gakuen high school, she joined the Tokyo Kid Brothers (東京キッドブラザース) theater troupe and worked as an actress and assistant director. In 1986, she formed a troupe called Seishun Gogetsutō (青春五月党), and the first of several plays written by her was published in 1991.
In the early 1990s, Yū switched to writing prose. Her novels include Furu Hausu (フルハウス, "Full House", 1996), which won the Noma literary prize for best work by a n -
Ueda Akinari
Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th century Japan. He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and Harusame Monogatari ("Tales of Spring Rain"), are central to the canon of Japanese literature.
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Vilém Koubek
Narodil se v roce 1988 a momentálně pracuje jako redaktor časopisu 100+1 zahraniční zajímavost. Miluje hudbu, rád vaří a má úchylku na mechanické klávesnice. Do literatury pronikl po boku Jany Kilianové prostřednictvím cynického stripového komiksu Korektor. Prozaický debut si odbyl roku 2018, kdy mu nakladatelství Host pomohlo na světlo světa vyvrhnout intelektuální splatterpunkovou řež Čepel entropie. Na podzim následujícího roku mu u téhož nakladatelství vyšel postapokalyptický western Organická oprátka. Následovala dvojice noirových antidetektivek s Vincentem Krhavým – jmenovitě Posmrtná predace a Smějící se bestie. Jeho nejnovější knihou je znepokojivý atmosférický horor Zatloukání hřebů.
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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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Marek Torčík
Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a 2020 se stal jedním z desítky finalistů v česko-slovenské soutěži Básne SK/CZ". V roce 2023 vydal románovou prvotinu Rozložíš paměť. Za ni získal v roce 2024 Cenu Magnesia Litera za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena pro autory a autorky do třiceti let.
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Nina Špitálníková
Nina Špitálníková je česká koreanistka, odbornice na Korejskou lidově demokratickou republiku, aktivistka za ženská práva a také spisovatelka. Své knihy zatím směřuje právě k této ostře sledované části Asie – jedná se o tituly Propaganda v KLDR (2014) a Na studiích v KLDR s chytlavým podtitulem Mezi dvěma Kimy (2017).
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Angažuje se v aktivitách zaměřených na problematiku genderové nerovnosti a matek samoživitelek. V roce 2017 spoluzaložila projekt Woman on a mission, který má upozornit na znevýhodněné postavení žen v hudebním průmyslu. Pracuje v pražském multikulturním centru Crossclub jako produkční a dramaturg.(zdroj životopisu: KnihyDobrovský.cz) -
Kim de l'Horizon
KIM DE L’HORIZON, geboren 2666 auf Gethen. In der Spielzeit 21/22 war Kim Hausautorj an den Bühnen Bern. Vor dem Debüt ›Blutbuch‹ versuchte Kim mit Nachwuchspreisen attention zu erringen – u. a. mit dem Textstreich-Wettbewerb für ungeschriebene Lyrik, dem Treibhaus-Wettkampf für exotische Gewächse und dem Damenprozessor. Heute hat Kim aber genug vom »ICH«, studiert Hexerei bei Starhawk, Transdisziplinarität an der ZHdK und textet kollektiv im Magazin DELIRIUM. ›Blutbuch‹ wurde mit dem Literaturpreis der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung ausgezeichnet und gewann den Deutschen Buchpreis 2022.
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Shōko Tendō
With her dyed-brown long hair and tight designer jeans, Shoko Tendo looks like any other stylish young Japanese woman -- until she removes her shirt to reveal the vivid tattoos covering her back and most of her body. The elaborate dragons, phoenixes and a medieval courtesan with one breast bared and a knife between her teeth are a symbol of Tendo's childhood as the daughter of a "yakuza" gangster and her youth as a drug-using gang member.
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The author of "Yakuza Moon," a best-selling memoir just out in English, the 39-year-old Tendo says that police efforts to eradicate the gangsters have merely made them harder to track. "The more the police push, the more the yakuza are simply going underground, making their activities harder to follow than -
David E. Kaplan
David E. Kaplan is an investigative reporter and former director of the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Before this post, he worked for the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report. David E. Kaplan commonly writes about terrorism, organized crime, and intelligence.
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Joe Palermo
Joe Palermo grew up in Addison, Illinois. Upon graduation from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he moved to Japan to accept a position with the Japanese government as a Mombusho English Fellow (MEF).
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He spent 3 years working for Shimaden, a Japanese manufacturer of industrial temperature controllers and then joined the Nielsen company (formerly A.C.Nielsen) locally in Japan.
His career at Nielsen spanned 25 years in various senior corporate roles focused on global market research, which brought him back to the US.
He worked for 6 years in a global capacity for Information Resources, Inc (IRI) where he established several global services.
He is now semi-retired and lives with his wife in the suburbs of Chicago