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  Yu Hua

  Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.
  
  Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Liv

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  Lu Xun

  Lu Xun (鲁迅) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.
  
  
  For the Traditional Chinese profile: here.
  For the Simplified Chinese profile: 鲁迅

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  Ruth Guimarães

  Nascida em Cachoeira Paulista-SP, em 13 de junho de 1920, Ruth Botelho Guimarães, além de poeta, romancista, contista, cronista, jornalista e teatróloga, notabilizou-se como tradutora e pesquisadora da literatura oral no Brasil.1 Além disso, lecionou Língua Portuguesa por mais de 30 anos em escolas da rede pública de São Paulo.
  
  Ainda menina, revelou-se poeta e, aos dez anos de idade, já publicava seus primeiros versos nos jornais A Região e A Notícia, ambos de circulação local. Aos dezoito anos, mudou-se para a capital paulista a fim de prosseguir seus estudos na USP, onde concluiu os cursos de Filosofia e, mais tarde, de Letras Clássicas. Cursou também Folclore e Estética.
  
  Como jornalista, colaborou na imprensa paulista e carioca, mantendo t

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  Ba Jin

  Ba Jin (巴金) took this pen name from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin.
  
  Known also as "Pa Chin"

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  Pierre Boileau

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac), to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac.
  
  In 1938 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, for Le Repos de Bacchus . It is given to the author of the best example of detective fiction in the world each year.
  
  He met Narcejac in 1948 at the awards dinner when Narcejac received the same award for one of his novels.

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  Renan Silva

  Renan Silva é professor, roteirista, poeta e pós-graduado em Escrita Criativa. A voz que ninguém escutou é seu primeiro romance, ganhando o prêmio Kindle de literatura 2023.

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  Mariana Salomão Carrara

  Mariana Salomão Carrara é paulistana, escritora e Defensora Pública, nascida em 1986. Tem publicados um livro de contos (Delicada uma de nós – Off-Flip, 2015), e os romances Idílico (EI, 2007), Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Quintal Edições, 2017), Se deus me chamar não vou (Editora nós, 2019, entre os 10 indicados ao Prêmio Jabuti 2020, em Romance Literário), “É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém” (Editora Nós, 2021, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo 2022 e entre os 10 indicados ao Jabuti 2022),”Não fossem as sílabas do sábado” (Todavia, junho/2022, Vencedor do Prêmio São Paulo 2023, Melhor Romance do Ano) e A árvore mais sozinha do mundo (Todavia, agosto/2024). Por contos e poemas avulsos, recebeu na juventude prêmios nacionais como Off-flip

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  Julia Dantas

  Julia Dantas nasceu em Porto Alegre, em 1985. Formou-se em jornalismo, estudou crítica de arte em Buenos Aires, atuou como tradutora e hoje se dedica à edição de livros. Faz mestrado em escrita criativa na PUCRS, tem contos publicados em antologias e foi finalista do Prêmio Açorianos de Criação Literária com este Ruína y leveza.

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  Édouard Louis

  Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
  
  From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
  
  The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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  Lu Xun

  Lu Xun (鲁迅) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.
  
  
  For the Traditional Chinese profile: here.
  For the Simplified Chinese profile: 鲁迅

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  Ma Boyong

  Associated Names:
  * Ma Boyong (English)
  * 马伯庸 / 馬伯庸 (Chinese)
  * หม่าป๋อยง (Thai)
  * Mã Bá Dung (Vietnamese)
  * Ма Боюн (Russian)
  
  马伯庸（1980年11月14日－），本名马力，朋友惯称“小白”，赤峰人，中国大陸作家，曾就职于施耐德电气（中国）投资有限公司，人稱「網路鬼才」、马亲王、亲王。作品涵蓋歷史、科幻、影視評論等諸多領域。
  
  Ma Boyong (born 14 November, 1980) is a Chinese novelist, columnist and blogger. In the year of 2010, he won People's Literature Prize, one of China's most prestigious honors.
  
  His short story The City of Silence was translated into English by science fiction writer Ken Liu.

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  Ruth Guimarães

  Nascida em Cachoeira Paulista-SP, em 13 de junho de 1920, Ruth Botelho Guimarães, além de poeta, romancista, contista, cronista, jornalista e teatróloga, notabilizou-se como tradutora e pesquisadora da literatura oral no Brasil.1 Além disso, lecionou Língua Portuguesa por mais de 30 anos em escolas da rede pública de São Paulo.
  
  Ainda menina, revelou-se poeta e, aos dez anos de idade, já publicava seus primeiros versos nos jornais A Região e A Notícia, ambos de circulação local. Aos dezoito anos, mudou-se para a capital paulista a fim de prosseguir seus estudos na USP, onde concluiu os cursos de Filosofia e, mais tarde, de Letras Clássicas. Cursou também Folclore e Estética.
  
  Como jornalista, colaborou na imprensa paulista e carioca, mantendo t

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  Xiao Hong

  Xiao Hong or Hsiao Hung (2 June 1911 – 22 January 1942) was a Chinese writer. Her given name was Zhang Naiying (張廼瑩); she also used the pen name Qiao Yin.
  
  (from Wikipedia)
  
  Name in Chinese: 萧红
  
  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See Xiao Hong for the others.
  
  

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  Andréa del Fuego

  Andréa del Fuego é natural de São Paulo, Brasil, onde nasceu no ano de 1975. Trabalhou em publicidade, fez produção de cinema e realizou duas curtas-metragens. Colaborando em várias revistas, inicia-se na escrita com Minto enquanto Posso (2004). Uma primeira coletânea de contos seguida por Nego tudo (2005), Engano Seu (2007) e Nego Fogo (2009). Em paralelo experimenta o juvenil com Quase Caio (2008) e Sociedade da Caveira de Cristal (2008), e o registo infantil com Irmãs de Pelúcia (2010), estando também incluída em diversas antologias de contos.
  Com Os Malaquias (Brasil 2010/Portugal 2011), foi finalista do Prémio São Paulo de Literatura e do Prémio Jabuti, na categoria romance, e vencedora do Prémio Literário José Saramago, tudo em 2011.

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  Hiro Arikawa

  Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya

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  Domenico Starnone

  Domenico Starnone (Saviano, 1943) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e giornalista italiano.
  
  Ha collaborato e collabora a numerosi giornali (l'Unità, Il manifesto per cui è stato redattore delle pagine culturali) e riviste di satira (Cuore, Tango, Boxer), con temi generalmente improntati alla sua attività di insegnante di liceo.
  
  Ha scritto con costanza su Linus, negli anni '70-'80.
  
  Ha lavorato anche come sceneggiatore; film come La scuola di Daniele Luchetti, Denti di Gabriele Salvatores e Auguri professore di Riccardo Milani sono ispirati a suoi libri.
  
  Il suo libro maggiormente apprezzato, Via Gemito, ha vinto il Premio Strega nel 2001.

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  Ah Cheng

  Ah Cheng, born in Beijing in 1949, is the pen name of Zhong Acheng (simplified Chinese: 钟阿城; traditional Chinese: 鍾阿城; pinyin: Zhōng Āchéng). An accomplished fiction writer, painter, and screenwriter (for internationally renowned Taiwanese director, Hou Xiaoxian), Ah Cheng spent the Cultural Revolution years in a small village in Inner Mongolia where he painted the sheep and grasslands, and on a State Farm bordering Yunnan province and Laos. During the 1980s he came to prominence as a member of the “primitive” or “seeking roots” literary movement. He has lived in several countries including the US, often not writing for long periods and working various jobs such as fixing bicycles and house painting. In 1992 he received the Italian Nonino I

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  Yan Lianke

  Yan Lianke (simplified Chinese: 阎连科; traditional Chinese: 閻連科; pinyin: Yán Liánkē; Wade–Giles: Yen Lien-k'e, born 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned.
  
  He started writing in 1978 and his works include: Xia Riluo (夏日落), Serve the People (为人民服务), Enjoyment (受活), and Dream of Ding Village (丁庄梦). He has also published more than ten volumes of short stories. Enjoyment, which was published in 2004, received wide acclaim in China. His literature has been published in various nations, and some of his works have been banned in China.
  
  (Wikipedia)

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  Rachel M. Harper

  RACHEL M. HARPER is the author of three novels: THE OTHER MOTHER, upcoming from Counterpoint Press; THIS SIDE OF PROVIDENCE, shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and BRASS ANKLE BLUES, a Borders’ Original Voices Award finalist and Target Breakout Book. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely published and anthologized. Harper has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, and is on the faculty at Spalding University’s School of Writing. She lives in Los Angeles.

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  Yu Hua

  Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.
  
  Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Liv

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  Louise Meriwether

  Louise Meriwether was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children.

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  Ba Jin

  Ba Jin (巴金) took this pen name from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin.
  
  Known also as "Pa Chin"

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  Eileen Chang

  Eileen Chang is the English name for Chinese author 張愛玲, who was born to a prominent family in Shanghai (one of her great-grandfathers was Li Hongzhang) in 1920.
  
  She went to a prestigious girls' school in Shanghai, where she changed her name from Chang Ying to Chang Ai-ling to match her English name, Eileen. Afterwards, she attended the University of Hong Kong, but had to go back to Shanghai when Hong Kong fell to Japan during WWII. While in Shanghai, she was briefly married to Hu Lancheng, the notorious Japanese collaborator, but later got a divorce.
  
  After WWII ended, she returned to Hong Kong and later immigrated to the United States in 1955. She married a scriptwriter in 1956 and worked as a screenwriter herself for a Hong Kong film studio

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  Jabari Asim

  Praise for Only The Strong
  
  "Jabari Asim is such an elegant writer that you won't realize how smoothly he drew you in until you're halfway through this book. Humane and humorous, compassionate and willing to get a little rough, this describes both the writer and the novel. Only The Strong does for St. Louis what Edward P. Jones has done for Washington D.C., Raymond Chandler for Los Angeles---marked it as place on the literary map where you'll want to stay for a long while. A riveting novel." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver
  
  “Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.” ---Bernice L. McFadden, author of Gathering of Waters
  
  "Only the

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  Amélie Nothomb

  Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
  She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
  
  She has been awar

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  Don Winslow

  Don Winslow is the author of twenty-one acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border sold to FX in a major multimillion-dollar deal to air as a weekly television series beginning in 2020.
  
  A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.
  
  
  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more informatio

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  Amos Tutuola

  Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.
  Despite his short formal education, Tutuola wrote his novels in English. His writing's grammar often relies more on Yoruba orality than on standard English.

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  Upton Sinclair

  Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). To gather information for the novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover working in the meat packing plants of Chicago. These direct experiences exposed the horrific conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. The Jungle has remained continuously in print since its initial publication. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of Am

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  Guy de Maupassant

  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

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  Ian McEwan

  Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
  
  McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P

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  Chen Qiufan

  Chen Qiufan was born in 1981, in Shantou, China. (In accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first. He sometimes uses the English name Stanley Chan.)
  
  He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first short story in 1997 in Science Fiction World, China's largest science fiction magazine. Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in Science Fiction World, Esquire, Chutzpah and other magazines. His first novel, The Abyss of Vision, came out in 2006. He won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award in 2006 with "A Record of the Cave of Ning Mountain," a work written in Classical Chinese. His story, "The Tomb," was translated into English and Italian and can be found in The Apex Book of World SF II and Alias 6.
  
  He now li

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  Ah Cheng

  Ah Cheng, born in Beijing in 1949, is the pen name of Zhong Acheng (simplified Chinese: 钟阿城; traditional Chinese: 鍾阿城; pinyin: Zhōng Āchéng). An accomplished fiction writer, painter, and screenwriter (for internationally renowned Taiwanese director, Hou Xiaoxian), Ah Cheng spent the Cultural Revolution years in a small village in Inner Mongolia where he painted the sheep and grasslands, and on a State Farm bordering Yunnan province and Laos. During the 1980s he came to prominence as a member of the “primitive” or “seeking roots” literary movement. He has lived in several countries including the US, often not writing for long periods and working various jobs such as fixing bicycles and house painting. In 1992 he received the Italian Nonino I

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  Ge Fei

  Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964) is the pen name of novelist Liu Yong (刘勇), considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the most significant of the Chinese avant-garde writers that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.
  
  Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He studied Chinese literature at East China Normal University and, after graduating in 1985, began to teach there and publish short stories and novellas. He read widely during his studies, but has since noted that he was particularly influenced by Borges, Faulkner and Robbe-Grillet. Some of his early, more experimental works were translated into English in the 1990s, such as "The Lost Boat", "Remembering Mr. Wu You" and "Green Yellow".

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  Jabari Asim

  Praise for Only The Strong
  
  "Jabari Asim is such an elegant writer that you won't realize how smoothly he drew you in until you're halfway through this book. Humane and humorous, compassionate and willing to get a little rough, this describes both the writer and the novel. Only The Strong does for St. Louis what Edward P. Jones has done for Washington D.C., Raymond Chandler for Los Angeles---marked it as place on the literary map where you'll want to stay for a long while. A riveting novel." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver
  
  “Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.” ---Bernice L. McFadden, author of Gathering of Waters
  
  "Only the

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  Renan Silva

  Renan Silva é professor, roteirista, poeta e pós-graduado em Escrita Criativa. A voz que ninguém escutou é seu primeiro romance, ganhando o prêmio Kindle de literatura 2023.

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  Mo Yan

  Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
  
  Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
  
  He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.
  
  Chinese version: 莫言

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  Yang Jiang

  YANG Jiang (in Chinese order)

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  Shen Congwen

  Shen Congwen (沈从文, December 28, 1902 – May 10, 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, was one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun. Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger role in his writing than that of other major early modern Chinese writers. He was known for combining the vernacular style with classical Chinese writing techniques. Shen is the most important of the "native soil" writers in modern Chinese literature...
  
  Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Con...

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  Julia Dantas

  Julia Dantas nasceu em Porto Alegre, em 1985. Formou-se em jornalismo, estudou crítica de arte em Buenos Aires, atuou como tradutora e hoje se dedica à edição de livros. Faz mestrado em escrita criativa na PUCRS, tem contos publicados em antologias e foi finalista do Prêmio Açorianos de Criação Literária com este Ruína y leveza.

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  Tommaso Campanella

  Tommaso Campanella (5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was a Dominican friar, Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

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  Rachel M. Harper

  RACHEL M. HARPER is the author of three novels: THE OTHER MOTHER, upcoming from Counterpoint Press; THIS SIDE OF PROVIDENCE, shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and BRASS ANKLE BLUES, a Borders’ Original Voices Award finalist and Target Breakout Book. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely published and anthologized. Harper has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, and is on the faculty at Spalding University’s School of Writing. She lives in Los Angeles.

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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.
  
  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

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  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, better known as J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-Mauriciano novelist. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation) and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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).
  
  (from Wikipedia)

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  Kalju Kruusa

  Kalju Kruusa (kodanikunimi Jaanus Valk) on eesti luuletaja ja tõlkija. Kalju Kruusa lõpetas 1992 Tallinna 20. Keskkooli ja astus aasta pärast Tartu Ülikooli, kus õppis 1993–1997 inglise filoloogiat ja semiootikat. Aastal 1997 läks ta Eesti Humanitaarinstituuti romanistika erialale ja lõpetas Tallinna Ülikooli 2008 bakalaureusetööga "Mallarmé luule: kogelemine". Aastatel 2004–2005 viibis ta vahetusüliõpilasena Tōkyōs Waseda ülikoolis ja õppis jaapani keelt.
  Aastal 2001 asutas ta koos Hasso Krulliga tõlkeluule internetiajakirja Ninniku.
  Kalju Kruusa on Eesti Kirjanike Liidu ja Eesti PEN-klubi liige. Kalju Kruusa esimene luulekogu "Meeleolu" ilmus 1999. Täpselt dateeritud luuletused on ka meeleoluliselt täpsed, sündmuspaik tavaliselt suvine aed

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  Li Yu

  Li Yu (Chinese: 李漁; pinyin: Lǐ Yú, given name: 仙侣 Xiānlǚ; style name: 笠翁 Lìwēng) (1610—1680 AD), also known as Li Liweng was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher. Born in Rugao, in present day Jiangsu province, he lived in the late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties. Although he passed the first stage of the imperial examination, he did not succeed in passing the higher levels before the political turmoil of the new dynasty, but instead turned to writing for the market. Li was an actor, producer, and director as well as a playwright, who traveled with his own troupe. His biographers call him a "writer-entrepreneur" and the “most versatile and enterprising writer of his time”.
  
  Li is the presumed author of Ròu pútuán (肉蒲團, The Carnal Prayer

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  Yu Xiuhua

  Yu Xiuhua (simplified Chinese: 余秀华; traditional Chinese: 余秀華; pinyin: Yú Xiùhuá; born 1976) is a Chinese poet. She lives in the small village of Hengdian, Shipai, Zhongxiang, Hubei, China, and has cerebral palsy resulting in speech and mobility difficulties. Despite this, she still writes poetry, and as of January 2015 Xiuhua had written over two thousand poems. In 2014, her poem I Crossed Half of China to Sleep with You (穿过大半个中国去睡你) was reposted frequently in WeChat, leading to a significant increase in her notoriety. In the same year, the poem magazine, a national magazine of China, published her poetry, which made her work even more famous. Still Tomorrow a documentary about her rise to fame and relationship with her family as well as he

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