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Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎駿) is a celebrated Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, and manga artist, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of animation. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the animation studio responsible for producing many of Japan’s most beloved and internationally acclaimed animated films. Over the course of a career spanning decades, Miyazaki has developed a reputation for creating visually rich, emotionally resonant stories that often explore themes such as nature, pacifism, flight, childhood, and the human condition.
Miyazaki was born in Tokyo and developed an early interest in drawing and animation. His father’s work in the aviation industry had a significant influence on hi

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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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Arata Kanoh

Japanese & Chinese: 加納新太
Chinese: 加纳新太

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Karen A. Anderson

Karen's new book is available on Amazon Worldwide & Audible.

"The Pet I Can't Forget: Finding Hope and Healing With Signs From the Afterlife", delves deeper into the profound impact our beloved pets have on our lives.

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Karen A. Anderson is an esteemed author known for her heartwarming and insightful books that explore the afterlife of animals and the profound connections we share with our beloved pets.

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Allyse Near

I'm a twenty-six-year-old writer, magical girl and ghost enthusiast.

My début novel, 'Fairytales for Wilde Girls', was published in June, 2013, by Random House Australia. It's a pulp-fable about grunge girls, Victorian ghosts, and slightly sinister talking rabbits. Your grandma will love it.

I do love making new friends! So come and strike up a chat on my Twitter, Facebook, or my Tumblr blog.

I also have a secondary blog, which serves as an outlet for my obsession for all fairy-stories dark and lovely.

I'm repped by the magnanimous Pippa Masson.

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Pedro Zuazua Gil

PEDRO ZUAZUA GIL

(Oviedo, 1981) es licenciado en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Oviedo, máster en Periodismo por la UAM-EL PAÍS y en Recursos Humanos por el Instituto de Empresa. Comenzó su carrera periodística en La Nueva España. Posteriormente, se incorporó a EL PAÍS. Trabajó en la Fundación Princesa de Asturias y en el Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer. En 2010 fue nombrado director de comunicación de EL PAÍS, puesto en el que continúa y al que ha sumado nuevas responsabilidades en la compañía. Vive en Madrid en el piso de Mía, una gata (nada común) europea, y de su hermano pequeño e imitador nato, Atún. Es autor de En mi casa no entra un gato.

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James J. McKenna

Dr. McKenna is the author of Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping .

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, also in Anthropology, specializing in the evolution of human parenting systems and human development. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for two years before accepting a tenure track position at Pomona College in Claremont, California where he taught for 20 years, and won several teaching awards. In 1997, he was recruited by the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Professor and the director of the University of Notre Dame Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory.

Dr. McKenna is best known for

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Ranmaru Kotone

琴音らんまる
Après avoir reçu le prix d’encouragement lors du 21e Nouveau Talent de Ace, Ranmaru Kotone commence sa carrière. Elle adapte en manga La Traversée du Temps – Tokikake, The Night Is Short Walk on Girl, BLOOD-C, RDG Red Deta Girl.

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Takashi Hiraide

Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics and baseball. He has also written a novel, A Guest Cat; a biography of Meiji poet Irako Seihaku; and a travelogue that follows the traces of Kafka, Celan, and Benjamin in Berlin. His poetry book, Postcards to Donald Evans, is published by the Tibor de Nagy Foundation. Hiraide is a professor of Art Science and Poetics as well as a core member of the new Institute for Art Anthropology at Tama Art University. For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award for poetry.

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Seishū Hase

Hase Seishu ((馳星周) is the pseudonym of the Japanese yakuza-crime novelist Toshihito Bando (坂東齢人). His pen name is based on the Chinese name of the director Stephen Chow (Director of Kung Fu Hustle) Chow Sing-chi(周星馳) written backward then rendered in Japanese.

Bando graduated with a BA from Yokohama City University in 1987.

A few of his novels were adapted into Asian films, such as The City of Lost Souls and Sleepless Town, in 2000 and 1998, respectively.

Some of his novels were adapted into films, such as Fuyajo or 'Sleepless Town' (1998) directed by Chi-Ngai Lee, and 'The City of Lost Souls (2000) Directed by legendary Yakuza crime filmmaker Takashi Miike.

Bando also oversaw the stories for the blockbuster sega video games Yakuza and Yakuz

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Reki Kawahara

Kawahara Reki (川原礫) is the writer of Sword Art Online and Accel World. He also uses the pen name Kunori Fumio. His hobby is cycling.

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Junya Nakamura

中村ジュンヤ

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Yukiko Seike

Japanese name: 清家雪子

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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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Honobu Yonezawa

Honobu Yonezawa (米澤穂信), Yonezawa Honobu, born 1978) loved making up stories even as a child and began writing fiction at the age of 14. By the time he got to university he was posting stories on his own website. After graduation he continued writing while working in a bookstore, and first got into print in 2001 when Hyoka (Ice Cream), a YA mystery novel he submitted for the Kadokawa School Novel Prize competition, earned an honorable mention. Sayonara yosei (Farewell, Sprite), a critically acclaimed story of the relationship between Japanese high-school boys and a girl from war-torn Yugoslavia, helped cement his reputation when it was published in 2004. Since then he has been a regular presence on lists of the year's best mysteries. Oreta r

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Denki Amashima

甘島伝記

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Son Him-chan

Associated Names:
* 손힘찬 (Korean)
* ソン・ヒムチャン / 緒方真理人 (Japanese)
* Son Him-chan (English)
* ซนฮิมชัน (โองะตะ มาริโตะ) (Thai)

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Yoru Sumino

Associated Names:
* Yoru Sumino
* 住野よる (Japanese Profile)
* โยรุ ซูมิโนะ (Thai Profile)

Yoru Sumino (住野よる) is a Japanese writer best known for I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, the novel that became a manga and two films.

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Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎駿) is a celebrated Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, and manga artist, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of animation. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the animation studio responsible for producing many of Japan’s most beloved and internationally acclaimed animated films. Over the course of a career spanning decades, Miyazaki has developed a reputation for creating visually rich, emotionally resonant stories that often explore themes such as nature, pacifism, flight, childhood, and the human condition.
Miyazaki was born in Tokyo and developed an early interest in drawing and animation. His father’s work in the aviation industry had a significant influence on hi

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Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones is an eighteen-time winner of the British Fantasy Award.

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Eiko Kadono

Eiko Kadono (角野栄子) is a Japanese author of children's literature, picture books, non-fiction and essays in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. Kadono was born in Tokyo, and attended the Nihon Fukushi University in Aichi prefecture, followed by a degree in English literature from Waseda University. After graduation in 1960 at the age of 25, she emigrated to Brazil, where she spent two years. She wrote a nonfiction story called Brazil and My Friend Luizinho based on her experience at that time, about a Brazilian boy who loves dancing samba. This was her maiden work, but it was not published until 1970. Most of her works are books for children. Her first successful children's book published Ôdorabô Bula Bula shi [The Robber Bla-Bla] was published i

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Ranmaru Kotone

琴音らんまる
Après avoir reçu le prix d’encouragement lors du 21e Nouveau Talent de Ace, Ranmaru Kotone commence sa carrière. Elle adapte en manga La Traversée du Temps – Tokikake, The Night Is Short Walk on Girl, BLOOD-C, RDG Red Deta Girl.

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Yukiko Seike

Japanese name: 清家雪子

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Yoshitoki Oima

See also: 大今良時

OIMA Yoshitoki: 大今良時
Associated Names:
Yoshitoki Ohima
Yoshitoki Ooima
Yoshitoki Ōima

Even though her one-shot Koe no Katachi won critical acclaim, it took a longsome law suit to get a magazine to publish it because of its socio-critical theme. Eventually, it was featured in the February edition of Bessatsu Shounen Magazin, where it placed first, and later in the 12th edition of the 2013 Weekly Shounen Magazine.

She has also collaborated with UBUKATA Tow for the manga adaption of his novel Mardock Scramble.

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Arata Kanoh

Japanese & Chinese: 加納新太
Chinese: 加纳新太

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Sugaru Miaki

Sugaru Miaki (三秋縋) is a Japanese writer. He was born in 1990 in Iwate Prefecture. He debuted in 2013 with Starting Over. He is also the author of Three Days of Happiness, Parasites in Love, and Your Story.

In March 2019, Your Story was nominated for the 40th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award.

See 三秋縋

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Yoru Sumino

Associated Names:
* Yoru Sumino
* 住野よる (Japanese Profile)
* โยรุ ซูมิโนะ (Thai Profile)

Yoru Sumino (住野よる) is a Japanese writer best known for I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, the novel that became a manga and two films.

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Tsubasa Yamaguchi

Tsubasa Yamaguchi (山口つばさ, Yamaguchi Tsubasa) is a Japanese mangaka.

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Junya Nakamura

中村ジュンヤ

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Wataru Kubota

窪田航

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Tetsuya Sano

佐野徹夜

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Clare Winger Harris

Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891-October 16, 1968) was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines. Her stories often dealt with characters on the "borders of humanity" such as cyborgs.

Harris began publishing in 1926, and soon became well liked by readers. She sold a total of eleven stories, which were collected in 1947 as Away From the Here and Now. Her gender was a surprise to Gernsback, the editor who first bought her work, as she was the first woman to publish science fiction stories under her own name. Her stories, which often feature strong female characters, have been occasionally reprint

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Caroline Moss

Caroline Moss is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, Racked and more. She is a contributing editor of The Wing's No Man's Land magazine and is currently working on two new books. HEY LADIES! is her first book.

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Shinsuke Yoshitake

Associated Names:
* ヨシタケシンスケ (Japanese)
* Shinsuke Yoshitake (English)
* 吉竹伸介 (Chinese)
* 요시타케 신스케 (Korean)
* ชินสุเกะ โยชิทาเกะ (Thai)

Shinsuke Yoshitake is the author-illustrator of many award-winning picture books, including New York Times Notable Children's Book of the Year There Must Be More Than That!, New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year The Boring Book, I Can Be Anything, I Won't Give Up My Rubber Band, and I Can Explain. His books have been translated into more than 10 languages. He lives in Japan.

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Mizuki Nomura

野村美月

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Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan was born in Trenton, New Jersey, but he says: “I spent the best years of my boyhood in Tennessee. My father and I did a lot of hunting and fishing and traveling through the South. Those years, until I was about fourteen, were very free years. We camped by lakes or rivers, or went off to see what was over the next mountain. My father had a great love of travel, learning, and books, and I took them away with me. The greatest gift he gave me was a library card. I learned about Hemingway and Jack London. And today my own books are in that same town library.”

In the 1980s he traveled: to South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and the Arctic. “I kept notes and I wrote and found Royal Fireworks Press who thought my work good

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Wataru Kubota

窪田航

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Kinoko Nasu

奈須きのこ, Nasu Kinoko, born 28 November 1973 is a Japanese author, best known for writing the light novel The Garden of Sinners and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night, and a co-founder of Type-Moon. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan. He graduated from Hosei University with a major in human science.

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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a former professor of Law and Head of Department of Islamic Jurisprudence and Legislation at the University of the Punjab. He has authored around 1000 books (over 400 of which are published) and delivered over 6000 lectures around the world. Dr Qadri has openly declared that he does not receive any royalties from his books but writes as a service to humanity. Dr Qadri has been conferred the highest Islamic academic title of 'Shaykh-ul-Islam' which means an Authority on Islam.

As a leading politician in Pakistan he has started a peaceful anti-corruption and pro-democracy reformist struggle in December 2012.

He is also the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, which has branches and centres in more than 90 countr

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Pilar Adón

Pilar Adón nació en Madrid el 12 de octubre de 1971.

Estudió Derecho en la universidad Complutense de Madrid y se especializó en Legislación Medioambiental.

A los diecisiete años ganó su primer premio literario en RNE-R3 con un relato breve. En 1995 empezó a publicar relatos en revistas literarias como La Hora Feliz, El Pájaro de Papel y Píntalo de Verde, de Mérida.

Es autora de los libros de relatos Viajes inocentes, y de las novelas Las hijas de Sara y El hombre de espaldas.

En el año 2007 fundó con Enrique Redel y Laura Calvo la Editorial Impedimenta. Desde entonces realiza labores de asesoría literaria y gestión de derechos para dicha editorial.

Ha publicado relatos y poesía en distintas revistas y suplementos literarios: Babelia, ABCD, Públ

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Avianti Armand

Avianti Armand adalah seorang penulis, dosen, dan arsitek. Kumpulan puisinya, Perempuan yang Dihapus Namanya (2011), memenangkan Khatulistiwa Literary Award untuk kategori puisi. Buku tersebut merupakan reinterpretasi atas tokoh-tokoh perempuan dalam kitab suci. Avianti telah menulis dua kumpulan cerpen: Negeri Para Peri (2009) dan Kereta Tidur (2011). Cerpennya, "Pada Suatu hari, Ada Ibu dan Radian," terpilih sebagai cerpen terbaik Kompas 2009.

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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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Sofía Olguín

Soy fundadora de Bajo el arcoíris Editorial, la primera editorial de Latinoamérica dedicada a los cuentos infantiles de temática LGBT para niños.
Escribo novelas, cuentos y poemas de temática LGBT.

Mis publicaciones, participaciones y reconocimientos:

• Novela Menfis, Eldalie Publicaciones, Madrid, 2010.
• “Amigo mío”, cuento finalista en el 1er Certamen de relatos cortos LGBT Harvey Milk.
• Novela Todos mis sueños, tuyos, Editorial Stonewall, Madrid, 2012.
• “Un mundo al revés”, cuento ganador del 3er puesto en el concurso de relatos LGBT de la Asociación Ojalá Málaga.
• “La rueda del tiempo”. Relato en Nocturnabilia: relatos de Stonewall 2012. Editorial Stonewall, Madrid, 2012.
• Taller de Literatura Queer. VIII Encuentro de Estudiantes de Letr

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Rob Roy O'Keefe

At a young age, Rob Roy O’Keefe pursued his desire to see the world despite his fear of heights, open spaces, and waffles. His first job entailed working as a sherpa on the world’s smallest mountain, Mount Wycheproof in Australia, rising 138 feet above the surrounding terrain. There wasn’t much call for carrying climbing equipment or navigating treacherous terrain, but occasionally a hiker would call down from the top of the mountain for a glass of water or directions to a nearby hotel.

From there, Rob moved back to the wilds of New England and started a chipmunk farm, training his charges to be stunt doubles for major Hollywood productions. His greatest accomplishment was securing work for his prize student, Rocky, as a stand-in for Tom Cru

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Michael Lee

Michael Lee is a Norwegian-American writer, youth worker, and organizer. He has received grants and scholarships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2018 among others. Michael has worked as a dishwasher, a farmhand, a teaching artist, a social studies teacher, and a case manager for youth experiencing homelessness. He works, lives, writes, organizes, and dreams in North Minneapolis, spending his free time reading and working in his garden.

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Martina Ramos

Martina Ramos (2004) nació en Montevideo, Uruguay. Escribe en Wattpad desde 2016, donde comenzó a compartir sus primeras historias. Actualmente estudia Comunicación Publicitaria en la Facultad de Información y Comunicación de la Universidad de la República. Comparte su día a día en redes sociales. Es amante de las comedias románticas y el cine de terror. Le gusta escribir relatos en los que el misterio y el amor se cruzan con lo cotidiano.

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Jung Mi-Kyung

Jung Mi-Kyung (Korean: 정미경; 4 February 1960 – 18 January 2017) was a modern South Korean novelist.

Jung graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in English literature and in 1987 made her literary debut by winning the drama category of the JoongAng Literary Award. After this, however, she withdrew from literary work for over a decade, re-entering the scene as a novelist, debuting with the short story "The Woman With Arsenic" in the Fall volume of World Literature. Thereafter, she has concentrated on her literary career with great success.

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Ilya Abdullah

Nama lain Qurratu'ain
atau Illya Abdullah (Buku Prima/Alaf21)

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Yōko Mure

群ようこ

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Carolyn Korsmeyer

Carolyn Korsmeyer is the author of five books of philosophy and three novels, Charlotte's Story (TouchPoint 2021) and Little Follies: A Mystery at the Millennium (Black Rose Writing, 2023)and Riddle of Spirit and Bone (Regal House, 2025).

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Pedro Zarraluki

Pedro Zarraluki was a Spanish writer. He published his first book at the age of 20 and wrote several novels and short story collections thereafter. He won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nadal for his novel Un encargo difícil, and the Premio Herralde for La historia del silencio. The latter was translated into English by Nick Caistor.
Zarraluki was a regular contributor to the press and radio, and taught creative writing at the Ateneo Barcelonés.

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José Luis Espert

José Luis Espert is an Argentine economist. He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the UCEMA and a Master's degree in Statistics from the INIE of the National University of Tucumán. In 2000, he founded his own consultancy, Estudio Espert 3, which provides Macroeconomic Advice and Asset Management services to individuals and companies, both domestic and foreign.

He was professor of Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Buenos Aires and is a professor of Public Finance at UCEMA.

He is also a columnist for several newspapers, such as La Nación and El País de Uruguay.

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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).

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

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Anat Levit

Anat Levit is an Israeli poet and author. She has published eleven books and received prestigious awards for her works including the Wertheim Prize for Poetry, the Bernstein Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.

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Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Cristina has been writing for Philippine newspapers at the young age of fifteen and is now an award-winning author.

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Fresh Guo Guo

Associated Names:
* Fresh Guo Guo
* Fresh果果 (Chinese Profile)
* 과과 (Korean Profile)
* Fresh กั่วกัว (Thai Profile)

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