Kyung-Sook Shin
Associated Names:
* Shin Kyung-sook
* 신경숙
* 申京淑
Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look After Mom'.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she demonstrated literary talent from an early age, publishing her first poem at the age of eight. Her early life was shaped by the death of her father, Otto Plath, when she was eight years old, a trauma that would profoundly influence her later work.
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).)
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Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age.
She graduated from Nihon University's Art College, majoring in Literature. During that time, she took the pseudonym "Banana" after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."
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Joanna Campbell Slan
National bestselling and award-winning author Joanna Campbell Slan was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but she grew up in a small town in Indiana. After graduating from Ball State University with a degree in journalism, she worked as a newspaper reporter, a newspaper ad salesperson, a television talk show host, a college teacher, a public relations professional, and a motivational speaker. In that capacity, she was named by Sharing Ideas Magazine as “one of the top 25 speakers in the world.”
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Takashi Nagai
Takashi Nagai was a physician specializing in radiology, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title "saint of Urakami".
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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. -
Mikhail Naimy
Mikha'il Na'ima (also spelled Mikhail Naimy; Arabic: ميخائيل نعيمة) (b.1889 in Mount Sannine in modern day Lebanon, d. 1988) was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.
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He wrote 99 books, including drama, essays, poetry, criticism, short stories and biography.
Among his best known books is the Book of Mirdad, a mystical text first published in Lebanon in 1948, which was translated into English and published in London in 1962.
The mystic Osho had this to say about The Book of Mirdad. He said, "There are millions of books in the world, but 'The Book of Mirdad' stands out far above any book in existence."
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Otsuichi
Otsuichi (乙一, Otsuichi?), also known as Eiichi Nakata and Asako Yamashiro, is the pen-name of Hirotaka Adachi (安達 寛高), born 1978.
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He is a Japanese writer, mostly of horror short stories. He made his debut with Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse while still in high school.
Major works include the novel Goth, which was made into a manga, and the short story collection Zoo, which was made into a movie.
Tokyopop has released his short story collection Calling You, and will release Goth in November. His short story F-Sensei's Pocket appears in the English language edition of Faust.
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Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole was a novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank.In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.
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Makoto Shinkai
SHINKAI Makoto
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Name (in native language): 新海 誠
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Makoto Shinkai
Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠 Shinkai Makoto?), born as Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠 Niitsu Makoto?, February 9, 1973) is a Japanese director of anime and former graphic designer. A native of the Nagano Prefecture, Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle school. His favorite anime is Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miyazaki. Shinkai has been called "The New Miyazaki" in several reviews including Anime Advocates and ActiveAnime, comparisons which he calls an "overestimation". -
Alphonse Karr
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Kim Bo-young
Kim Bo-young (Korean: 김보영; born 1975) is a South Korean science fiction writer based in Gangwon Province, South Korea. In addition to her novels and short story collections, she has worked as a script advisor for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer in 2013.[1] She is the first Korean science fiction author to be published by HarperCollins.
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Basem Khandaqji
Basem Khandaqji (Arabic: باسم خندقجي) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024.
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He has studied at An-Najah National University and Al-Quds University. He was arrested by the Israeli defence forces on November 2, 2004, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has published several novels, poems, and studies from prison.
باسم خندقجي، كاتب وشاعر فلسطيني من مواليد 1983. درس في جامعة النجاح الوطنية في قسم الصحافة والإعلام. اعتُقِل من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلية في 2004، وحكم عليه بالسجن مدى الحياة.
له عدة روايات ودواوين شعر كتبها من داخل السجن.
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Ghazi A. Algosaibi
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He was a Saudi Arabian politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family that is one of the oldest and richest trading families of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Al Gosaibi was considered among Saudi Arabia's topmost technocrats since the mid-1970s. The Majalla called him the "Godfather of Renovation". -
Tatsuki Fujimoto
Tatsuki Fujimoto 藤本タツキ (Fujimoto Tatsuki) is a Japanese manga author, mostly known for Chainsaw Man.
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Awards:
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- Harvey Award: best manga for Chainsaw Man (2021-2022)
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Bothayna Al-Essa
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Son Him-chan
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* ソン・ヒムチャン / 緒方真理人 (Japanese)
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Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (orig. Seitsemän veljestä). Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.
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Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, into a tailor's family. In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted into the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater. His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic tale from the Kalevala.
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Ting-Kuo Wang
Ting-Kuo Wang 王定國
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Born in Lukang in 1955, Wang now lives in Taichung. He started writing at the age of seventeen, and from eighteen his short stories began winning prizes all over the island, including the China Times and Unitas awards. He has worked in fields as diverse as building design, surveying and advertising.
His early writings were love songs to nature and youth, but in his twenties he took a distinctly more politically conscious turn, mixing reportage and commentary with novels about the downtrodden in society. He stopped writing for many years while he built up his own company, until 2013, when he returned to widespread acclaim with a series of books including So Hot, So Cold and Who Blinked in the Dark. His newest novel My Enemy' -
Randolph M. Nesse
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and "Red Sky at Noon." His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD).
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'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana.... and Stalin himself.
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Vesna Dedić Milojević
Vesna Dedić Milojević rođena je 1967. godine. Živela je u Podgorici, a zatim se preselila u Beograd, gde je diplomirala na Filološkom fakultetu, na katedri za Opštu književnost i teoriju književnosti. Koautor je programa Radionica za medije Officina, objavljivala intervjue sa poznatim ličnostima u najtiražnijim domaćim magazinima, pisala scenarija za koncerte i različite manifestacije (kao što je evrovizijsko takmičenje), jedna od prvih voditeljki NTV Studija B, urednica i voditeljka subotnjeg Jutarnjeg programa Televizije Beograd i proslavljena voditeljka emisije RTS Balkanskom ulicom.
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Objavila je knjigu proznih tekstova Muškarci devedesetih – jesi li slobodan večeras (u dva izdanja, 1999. i 2001) i roman Kao leto (2002). -
Susan Cain
“QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking,” was released in January, 2012, from Crown Publishers in the U.S., and from Viking/Penguin in the U.K. Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts was released in May, 2016 from Dial Books in the U.S., and from Penguin Life in the U.K. "BITTERSWEET: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole" has been released in the U.S. and U.K.
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Edmond Rostand
People know light, entertaining works, particularly Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), of French playwright Edmond Rostand.
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Neo-romanticism associates poet and dramatist Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand. His romantic plays provided an alternative to the popular naturalistic theatre during the late 19th century. People adapted "Les Romanesques" as the highly successful musical comedy "The Fantasticks."
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Joumana Haddad
Joumana Haddad (جمانة حداد) is a Lebanese poet, translator, journalist and women rights activist.
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She’s been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women in March 2014 by CEO magazine Middle East (position 62), for her cultural and social activism.
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Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen).
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Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp.
From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.
Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest i -
Brigitte Giraud
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Leta Hong Fincher
Praise for Leftover Women, 10th anniversary edition:
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Named one of the best China books of 2023 by China Books Review.
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―Evan Osnos, winner of the National Book Award, author of Age of Ambition
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Kim Hyesoon
Born in Ulijin, South Korea, Kim Hyesoon (1955-) received her PhD in Korean Literature from Konkuk University, and began as a poet in 1979 with the publication of Poet Smoking a Cigarette. She began to receive critical acclaim in the late 1990s and she attributes this to the strong wave of interest in poetry by woman poets; currently she is one of South Korea’s most important contemporary poets, and she now lives and teaches in Seoul. Her poetry aims to strive for a freedom from form, by experimenting with language focusing on the sensual - often female - body, in direct opposition to male-dominated lyrical poetry. ‘They are direct, deliberately grotesque, theatrical, unsettling, excessive, visceral and somatic. This is feminist surrealism
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Yaniv Iczkovits
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Leo Babauta
Leo Babauta is a simplicity blogger and author. He created Zen Habits, a Top 25 blog (according to TIME magazine) with 260,000 subscribers, mnmlist.com, and the best-selling books focus, The Power of Less, and Zen To Done.
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Babauta is a former journalist of 18 years, a husband, father of six children, and in 2010 moved from Guam to San Francisco, where he leads a simple life.
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Héctor Aguilar Camín
Periodista, novelista e historiador mexicano.
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Ha destacado en sus tres vertientes de periodista, escritor e historiador. En la primera, recibió el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural; ha sido colaborador de diversos medios, como La Jornada (diario del que fue subdirector), Milenio, Unomasuno, La Cultura en México. Fue director de la revista Nexos entre 1983 y 1995, cargo que retomó a fines de 2008. Condujo el programa televisivo Zona Abierta y participa en Tercer Grado, ambos transmitidos por Televisa. Es fundador de Ediciones Cal y Arena (1988), la cual dirigió.
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Malika Oufkir
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Patsy M. Lightbown
Patsy M. Lightbown is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concordia University in Montreal and Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on how instruction and feedback affect second-language acquisition in classrooms where the emphasis is on "communicative" or "content-based" language teaching. The contexts for her work have included elementary schools in Canada and, more recently, dual-language bilingual classes in the U.S. She recently contributed to a series of professional development workshops coordinated by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Boston public television station WGBH.
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Patrícia Melo
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Lee Young-Ju
LEE Young-ju (이영주) is the author of four poetry collections. Her work has received support from the Arts Council of Korea and the Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture. She is also an essayist and a playwright. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.
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Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, born September 5, 1931 in Bogor, Java, is a prominent contemporary Muslim thinker. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and literature. His thought is integrated, multifaceted and creative. Al-Attas’ philosophy and methodology of education have one goal: Islamization of the mind, body and soul and its effects on the personal and collective life on Muslims as well as others, including the spiritual and physical non-human environment. He is the author of twenty-seven authoritative works on various aspects of Islamic thought and civilization, particularly on Sufism, cosmol
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Michel Lacroix
Michel Lacroix is a French philosopher and writer ، born on December 12 , 1946.
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A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud , he is a graduate of Philosophy, Doctor of State and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Cergy-Pontoise . He is the author of a State Thesis on "L'idée de politesse dans les manuels de bienséance (XIXème et XXème siècles)" whose chairman of the jury was Jean Guitton .
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Hwang Sok-yong
Hwang Sok-yong (황석영) was born in Hsinking (today Changchun), Manchukuo, during the period of Japanese rule. His family returned to Korea after liberation in 1945. He later obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Dongguk University (동국대학교).
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In 1964 he was jailed for political reasons and met labor activists. Upon his release he worked at a cigarette factory and at several construction sites around the country.
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Aya Kito
Aya Kitō (木藤亜也, July 19, 1962 – May 23, 1988) was a Japanese diarist. She wrote about her personal experiences living with spinocerebellar ataxia which was later published in the book 1 Litre no Namida.
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Legacy
Her diary, entitled 1 Litre no Namida (1リットルの涙 Ichi Rittoru no Namida, lit. "1 Litre of Tears"), was first published in her native Japan on February 25, 1986, more than two years before her death at the age of 25. Her mother, Shioka Kitō, convinced her to publicize her diary in order to give hope to others, since Aya had always wanted to be able to help others.
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Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, September 2018) and Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, July 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Poetry, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition, The Home School in Miami, the Aspen Institute, New York University, the University of Chicago, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, an
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Woosung Kang
Woosung is one of the leading experts in the field of nation branding in Korea. He served as a Cyber Advisory Council Member at The Presidential Council of Nation Branding, and as an Overseas Advisory Member at The National Unification Advisory Council.
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His blog (www.KoreaBrandImage.com) received multiple awards and its popularity led to the publication of his book "Stand Up to the World 세계를 향해 바로서라 (2010)", written for a Korean audience.
He earned his B.A. in Management from the University of Denver and an M.A. in Consumer Psychology from New York University.
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Son Him-chan
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* 손힘찬 (Korean)
* ソン・ヒムチャン / 緒方真理人 (Japanese)
* Son Him-chan (English)
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Kirstin Chen
Kirstin Chen is the New York Times best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. It has also been recommended by The Washington Post, People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Parade, and more. Her previous two novels are Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.
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Sumi Hahn
Stories are like trees. Some of them hunch, tangled and gnarled, while others stand erect and straight. But all of them reach for the sky.
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Cho Nam-Joo
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* 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.
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Preston Blair
An American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Productions and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation department.
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A native of Redlands, California, Blair began his animation career in the early 1930s at the Universal studio under Walter Lantz and Bill Nolan. He later moved over to Charles Mintz’s Screen Gems studio, and in the late 1930s moved over to the Disney studio. At Disney, Blair animated cartoon short subjects, Mickey Mouse scenes in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” section of Fantasia, and the hippo-alligator dance in Fantasia’s “Dance of the Hours” sequence. He also did some work on Walt Disney’s Pinocchio and Bambi.
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Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel
Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel (Spain, 1974) is a philosopher and writer, author of the novels Transmigration (La transmigración, 2025), The Capacity for Love of Mr Königsberg (La capacidad de amar del señor Königsberg, 2021), The Great Imaginer (El gran imaginador, 2016), The Other’s Dream (El sueño del otro, 2013) and The Hypochondriac Hitman (El asesino hipocondríaco, 2012), the essay A History of Lying (Una historia de la mentira, 2020) and the short story collections El libro de los pequeños milagros (2013), De mecánica y alquimia (2009), finalist in the Setenil Prize for best short story book, and 88 Mill Lane (2006).
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Marie D. Jones
Best selling author, screenwriter, and producer. Marie has written over 30 non-fiction books, novels, and novellas, and contributed to over 100 anthologies. She is a produced screenwriter and indie filmmaker. She has been on radio all over the world, and on television's History Channel, including "Ancient Aliens." She has spoken at major events and writes frequently for a number of magazines on the paranormal, metaphysics, cutting edge science and Noetics. She is currently focusing on fiction and screenwriting and just re-released a middle grade novel based on her son's true story, BULLIES BEWARE, EKHO IS HERE! as well as a horror novel with Denise A. Agnew, THE DIM, and a paranormal thriller, FREAK. She will be releasing several more novel
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Yi Mun-Yol
Yi Mun-yol (born May 18, 1948) is a South Korean writer.
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Yi Mun-yol was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1948, but the outbreak of the Korean War and his father's defection to North Korea forced his family to move about until they settled in Yeongyang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the ancestral seat of his family. The fact that his father defected dramatically affected his life, as he was seen and treated as "the son of a political offender," and was "passed around among relatives[.] After dropping out of the College of Education of Seoul National University in 1970, Yi Mun-yol made his literary debut through the annual literary contests of the Daegu Maeil Newspaper in 1977, and the Dong-A Ilbo in 1979. On being awarded the prestigious "Today's Writer Awa -
Kim Bo-young
Kim Bo-young (Korean: 김보영; born 1975) is a South Korean science fiction writer based in Gangwon Province, South Korea. In addition to her novels and short story collections, she has worked as a script advisor for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer in 2013.[1] She is the first Korean science fiction author to be published by HarperCollins.
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Nives Madunić Barišić
NIVES MADUNIĆ BARIŠIĆ rođena je 1968. godine u Osijeku koji još uvijek smatra svojim gradom premda živi i radi u Zagrebu. Školovala se na Filozofskom fakultetu i Akademiji dramskih umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Za djecu je napisala nekoliko igrokaza, poput „Mala zelena gusjenica“, „Naša je mama postala zmaj“, „Ispod zvončića se rodio kraljević“, „Luzer ili faca“, romane „Tajna čokoladnih bombona“, „Lunapark“ kao i romane serijala o Hani i Janku. Objavljuje priče u časopisima za djecu Prvi izbor i Radost. Objavila je nekoliko pripovjedaka, a jedna od njih uvrštena je i u antologiju „Svaka priča na svoj način”. Primila je i neke nagrade za svoj rad, ali za njih još ne mora imati posebnu policu. Mama je dvjema djevojčicama koje su njezin najveći uspje
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Choi Jin-young
Choi Jin-young is one of Korea’s most celebrated authors. Her career started in 2006 when she won the Silcheon Literature Debut Author Award. She has since won many more including the Hankyoreh Literary Award, Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, Baek Shin-ae Literature Award, Manhae Literary Award and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award.
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Ed Lin
Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He's the author of several books: Waylaid, his literary debut, and his Robert Chow crime series, set in 1970s Manhattan Chinatown: This Is a Bust, Snakes Can't Run, and One Red Bastard. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.
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Anusha Rao
Anusha S Rao is scholar of Sanskrit and religion, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Toronto. A regular columnist for the Deccan Herald, her column, entitled 'Sans the Sacred,' features witty ancient Sanskrit takes on contemporary issues.
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Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini (Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin) started writing since 1951. In 1953, her short stories can be found in most of national magazines like Kisah, Mimbar Indonesia, and Siasat. She also writes poems, radio play, and novel.
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* Padang Ilalang di Belakang Rumah
* Dari Parangakik ke Kampuchea
* Sebuah Lorong di Kotaku
* Jepun Negerinya Hiroko
* Langit dan Bumi Sahabat Kami
* Namaku Hiroko
* Tirai Menurun
* Pertemuan Dua Hati
* Sekayu
* Pada Sebuah Kapal
* Kemayoran
* Keberangkatan
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Goran Milašinović
Goran Milašinović (1958, Đakovo) do sada je objavio zbirku pesama Neistraženi bolovi (1989), zajedno sa Živojinom Pavlovićem epistoralni roman Voltin luk (1996), zbirku priča Lekari (2015) i romane: Heraklov greh (1999), Posmatrač mora (2001), Camera obscura (2003), Apsint (2005), Maske Sofije de Montenj (2007), Trougao, kvadrat (2009), Rascepi (2011) i Slučaj Vinča (2017), koji će doživeti filmsku adaptaciju.
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Objavio je i knjigu razgovora sa Milošem Jevtićem Dva srca (2013) u ediciji Razgovori Miloša Jevtića. Živi i radi u Beogradu. -
Amir Tag Elsir
a.k.a أمير تاج السر
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Amir Taj Al-Sir (sometimes Amir Tagelsir or Amir Tag Elsir) is a Sudanese writer who currently lives and works in Doha, Qatar. He has published two biographies and one collection of poetry .
He graduated from the faculty of medicine, and notes, on his website, that he worked for many years in Sudan as a gynecologist. He now works as a physician in Qatar.
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Ye Chun
Ye Chun / 叶春 (Surname: Ye) is a bilingual Chinese American writer and literary translator. She was born in Luoyang, China and came to the U.S. in 1999. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. She is the author of Straw Dogs of the Universe (a novel), Hao (stories), two books of poetry, Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle, and a novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(Peach Tree in the Sea).
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She has published four volumes of translations, including Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi, shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award, and Long River: Poems by Yang Jian. Her translations of Li-Young Lee's Behind My Eyes and Undressing,《眼睛后面: 李 -
Kang Young-sook
Kang Young-sook (Hangul: 강영숙; born November 10, 1967) is a South Korean novelist.
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Kang Young-sook was born in 1967 in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province in South Korea and spent most of her childhood there. She was student athlete for volleyball, long jump, and other sports, before she moved to Seoul when she was 14. She majored creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She was the editor in chief of the Seoul Institute of the Arts journal and in 1998 made her literary debut with the short story "A Meal in August" through the annual spring literary competition sponsored by the Seoul Shinmun. Her published debut was the short story collection ['Shaken'] in (2002) and she has also published "Every Day is a Celebration" (2004) and "Black in -
Han Yujoo
Han Yujoo is a South Korean writer. Her novels portray not so much the fate of people embroiled in some kind of conflict as their psychological state when they contemplate a situation or idea
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Kim Soom
김숨 (Kim Soom) was born in 1974, and debuted as a writer when her stories were selected for publications by Daejeon Ilbo in 1997 and Munhakdongne in 1998. A prolific writer, she has published numerous short story collections and novels to date, including the most recent collection Your Saviour, and the novels One Person, L's Sneakers, and The Flowing Letter. She is the recipient of the Hyundae Munhak Prize, the Daesan Literature Prize, Yi Sang Prize, and Dongri Literature Prize.
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Park Wan-Suh
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Park Wan Suh (also Park Wan-seo, Park Wan-so, Park Wansuh, Park Kee-pah and Pak Wan-so, Pak Wanso) was born in 1931 in Gaepung-gun in what is now Hwanghaebuk-do in North Korea.Park entered Seoul National University, the most prestigious in Korea, but dropped out almost immediately after attending classes due to the outbreak of the Korean War and the death of her brother. During the war, Park was separated from her mother and elder brother by the North Korea army, which moved them to North Korea. She lived in the village of Achui, in Guri, outside Seoul until her death. Park died on the morning of January 22, 2011, suffering from cancer.
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Clifford Whittingham Beers
The founder of the mental hygiene movement, Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876–1943) launched one of the earliest client-advocate health reform movements in the United States. A former patient who was institutionalized for three years, Beers led national and international efforts to improve institutional care, challenge the stigma of mental illness, and promote mental health. His efforts resulted in a major shift in attitudes toward mental illness, as well as the introduction of guidance counselors in US schools and the inclusion of evidence of a defendant's psychological state in law courts.
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Beers was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1876, to Ida Cooke and Robert Beers. The couple suffered a series of tragedies, including the death of one c -
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Ruoxi Chen
Chen Ruoxi (陳若曦), born 1938, is a Taiwanese author. A graduate of National Taiwan University, she among others helped found the literary journal Xiandai wenxue (Modern Literature).
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Ru Freeman
Ru Freeman (b. 1967) is a Sri Lankan born writer and activist whose creative and political work has appeared internationally.
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She is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009), and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf Press), a NYT Editor’s Choice Book. Both novels have been translated into multiple languages including Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, and Chinese.
She is editor of the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (OR Books, 2015), a collection of the voices of 65 American poets and writers speaking about America’s dis/engagement with Palestine.
Freeman holds a graduate degree in labor studies, researching female migrant labor in the countries of Kuwait, the U.A.E, and the Kingdom o -
Kang Kyeong-ae
강경애 (Kang Kyeong-ae) was a Korean writer, novelist and poet involved with the Feminist movement. She is also known by her penname Kang Gama.
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She was a Korean writer whose stories are remarkable for their rejection of colonialism, patriarchy, and ethnic nationalism during a period when such views were truly radical and dangerous. Born in what is now North Korea, Kang wrote all her fiction in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation and witnessed the violence and daily struggles experienced by ethnic Koreans living in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Kang's riveting stories are full of sensitivity, defiance, and a deep understanding of the oppressed people she wrote about. -
Krys Lee
Krys Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in California and Washington, and studied in the United States and England. She was a finalist for Best New American Voices, received a special mention in the 2012 Pushcart Prize XXXVI, and her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Narrative magazine, Granta (New Voices), California Quarterly, Asia Weekly, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Conde Nast Traveller, UK (forthcoming). She lives in Seoul with intervals in San Francisco.
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Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr., burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the role of a lifetime in one of the biggest musicals of all time, Odom put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor.
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The actor turns author with his debut book 'Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning.' -
Samuel Park
Samuel Park was an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He graduated from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, where he earned his doctorate. He is the author of the novella Shakespeare's Sonnets and the writer-director of a short film of the same name, which was an official selection of numerous domestic and international film festivals. He is also the author of the novels This Burns My Heart and The Caregiver. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times. Born in Brazil and raised in Los Angeles, he split his time between Chicago and Los Angeles. In April 2017, Park died of stomach cancer at age 41 shortly after finishing The Caregiver.
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Estrella D. Alfon
Estrella D. Alfon was a well-known prolific Filipina author who wrote in English. Because of unwavering and poor health, she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66.
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Matthias Politycki
Matthias Politycki, born in 1955, has published over 20 novels and poetry collections. He is ranked among the most successful literary authors writing in German. His books have sold over 200.000 copies and have been translated into several languages, including French and Italian. Jenseitsnovelle was first published in German in 2009.
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José Manuel Horcajo
Es ordenado presbítero en Madrid en 2001. Fue Vicario parroquial de «Nuestra Señora de las Delicias». Posteriormente fue nombrado Párroco de «San Ramón Nonato» en 2009. Hizo sus estudios en la Universidad de Teología San Dámaso, donde se doctoró en mayo de 2010, con una tesis sobre la obediencia en santo Tomás de Aquino. Ha publicado otros escritos sobre la obediencia y ha participado en diversos congresos de pastoral y de teología moral. Es conocido su comedor social por el que pasan a diario 300 personas, en cuatro turnos, y que lleva adelante con la ayuda de voluntarios.
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Craig Higginson
Craig Higginson is an internationally acclaimed writer who lives in Johannesburg. His plays have been performed and produced at the National Theatre (London), the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Trafalgar Studios (on London’s West End), the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), the Stadsteater (Stockholm), Salisbury Theatre, the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow), Live Theatre (Newcastle), Next Theatre (Chicago), Theatre 503 and the Finborough Theatre (both London), the Market Theatre (Johannesburg) and several other theatres and festivals around the world.
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Craig's plays include: Laughter in the Dark, Lord of the Flies, Truth in Translation (co-writer), Dream of the Dog, Ten Bush (co-writer), The Jungle Book, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Little Foot and Th -
Soon Wiley
A native of Nyack, New York, Soon Wiley received his BA in English & Philosophy from Connecticut College. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and earned him fellowships in Wyoming and France. He resides in Connecticut with his wife and their two cats. When We Fell Apart is his debut novel.
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Rowland Rose
Internationally renowned author and pioneer in the study of simulated realities, Rowland Rose is one of the most brilliant, provocative and visionary voices in the field of contemporary and experimental philosophy and its fusion with emerging and disruptive science. With a career spanning more than three decades, Rowland Rose has captivated readers with his unique ability to unite complex concepts from philosophy, science and the most advanced technology in an accessible and captivating narrative.
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His pioneering research on consciousness and the simulation of reality earned him international recognition. His combination of academic rigor and an innate ability to communicate profound ideas with simplicity has made him a best-selling author.
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Snežana M. Veljković
Snežana Veljković je rođena u Nišu, živela i školovala se u Beogradu. Diplomirala je na Medicinskom fakultetu u Beogradu i odmah po diplomiranju počela da radi na Institutu za sudsku medicinu Medicinskog fakulteta.Specijalizirala je sudsku medicinu i ubrzo uzela učešća u nastavi kao stručni saradnik, a potom asistent, pa docent.Nastavnu godinu 1979/80. provela je na stručnom usavršavanju u Office of Chief Medical Examiner, The City of New York, USA. Doktorsku disertaciju odbranila je 1980. Za redovnog profesora Medicinskog fakulteta izabrana je 1994.Ceo radni vek posvetila je nastavi i naučnoistraživačkom radu iz oblasti sudske medicine. Posebno je izučavala probleme naprasne prirodne smrti, nasilne asfiktične smrti, iznenadne smrti novorođ
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Joca Reiners Terron
Joca Reiners Terron nasceu em Cuiabá, em 1968, e vive em São Paulo. Poeta, prosador, tradutor e designer gráfico, foi editor da Ciência do Acidente, selo que resgatou nomes importantes da literatura brasileira do final do século XX, como José Agrippino de Paula, Manoel Carlos Karam e Valêncio Xavier, e pela qual publicou o romance Não há nada lá (depois relançado pela Companhia das Letras) e o livro de poemas Animal anônimo. É autor também dos volumes de contos Hotel Hell, Curva de rio sujo e Sonho interrompido por guilhotina. Dele, a Companhia das Letras publicou Do fundo do poço se vê a lua, vencedor do prêmio Machado de Assis na categoria melhor romance. É criador e curador da coleção “Otra Língua” (Editora Rocco) que divulga autores iné
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Евгений Евтушенко
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко; born 18 July 1933 in Zima Junction, Siberia) is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films. -
Oh Jung-hee
Oh Jung-Hee (born November 9, 1947) (Hangul: 오정희) is a South Korean writer.
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Oh has captured both the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Dongin Literary Award, Korea's most prestigious prizes for short fiction, and her works have been translated into multiple foreign languages in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe.
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Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Caguas, 1986) ha publicado las novelas Los días hábiles, Palacio, y Dicen que los dormidos, la colección de cuentos Preciosos perdedores, y el ensayo académico Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness and the Mexican Economic Imaginaries. En el 2017, fue seleccionado por el Hay Festival como parte de Bogotá39, un listado de 39 escritores prometedores del continente menores de 39. Dos años antes, en el 2015, fue reconocido por el Festival de la Palabra con el Premio Nuevas Voces, un premio otorgado a autores puertorriqueños jóvenes. Ese mismo año fue parte de Latinoamérica Viva, una selección de autores latinoamericanos noveles curada por la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Escribió columnas para El Nuevo Dí
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Bridget Asher
Julianna Baggott
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Bridget Asher & N.E. Bode
Borned on 30 September 1969, she teaches at Florida State University. She's married to David G.W. Scott and has four kids. Along with her husband, she is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Kids in Need - Books in Deed., getting free books to underprivileged kids in Florida.
Today, she is a critically acclaimed and bestselling author, who wrote novels and poetry, and who has over fifty overseas editions of her books. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Best American Poetry, Best Creative Nonfiction, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Here & Now. For two years, her alter-ego, N. E. Bode was a recurring personality on XM Radio. Her work