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  Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 1950 and 1953. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian and Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize.
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  Chikamatsu Monzaemon

  Born in Japan in 1653 with the name of "Sugimore Nobumori", Chikamatsu Monzaemon was to become perhaps the greatest dramatist in the history of the Japanese theatre.
  Chikamatsu is said to have written over one hundred plays, most of which were written for the bunraku or puppet theatre. His works combine comedy and tragedy, poetry and prose, and present scenes of combat, torture, and suicide on stage. Most of Chikamatsu's domestic tragedies are based an actual events. His Sonezaki shinju (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), for example, was based on reports of an actual double suicide of the apprentice clerk and his lover.
  But he wrote some famous historical plays, too.
  
  In 1705, Chikamatsu moved to Osaka where he became a writer for Takemoto Giday

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  Chil Rajchman

  Chil Meyer Rajchman a.k.a. Henryk Reichman nom de guerre Henryk Ruminowski (June 14, 1914 – 2004) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor; former prisoner of the Treblinka extermination camp which took the lives of 800,000 Jews during the genocidal Operation Reinhard in World War II. Rajchman belonged to a group of inmates who escaped successfuly during the perilous Treblinka revolt which resulted in the camp's closure in October 1943.
  After the Treblinka trials he emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004.
  
  His Treblinka memoir titled "The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir" originally in Yiddish, was published in 2009 for the very first time in German and French, without the English translation which appeared in 2011 with the Preface by Elie

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  Lesley Downer

  I write historical fiction set in Japan - women’s untold stories, largely true and based on meticulous and detailed research, though primarily, of course, good yarns. I’ve just finished The Shogun’s Queen, the fourth of The Shogun Quartet, four novels set in the nineteenth century during the tumultuous fifteen years when Japan was convulsed by civil war and transformed from rule by the shoguns into a society that looked to the west.
  Preorder: http://bit.ly/TheShogunsQueen
  The second, The Last Concubine, was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year 2009 and translated into 30 languages. The other two novels are The Courtesan and the Samurai and The Samurai’s Daughter. My non-fiction on Japan includes Geisha: The Remarkable Truth Behind the

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  Kafū Nagai

  Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風 Nagai Kafū, December 3, 1879 - April 30, 1959) is the pen name of Japanese author, playwright, essayist, and diarist Nagai Sōkichi (永井 壮吉). His works are noted for their depictions of life in early 20th-century Tokyo, especially among geisha, prostitutes, cabaret dancers, and other denizens of the city's lively entertainment districts.
  
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  Variation of names of the same author:
  
  永井荷风
  
  Kafū Nagai
  
  永井 荷風
  
  永井荷風

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  Katai Tayama

  Tayama Katai was a Japanese author. His most famous works include Rural Teacher (田舎教師) and Futon (蒲団). He is noted for writing naturalistic I novels which revolve around the author. His writings are considered pseudo-autobiographical. He wrote about his experiences in the Russo-Japanese war.

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  Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo

  Donato Francisco Ndongo-Bidyogo Makina nació en 12 de diciembre de 1950 en Alén Efack, Niefang, Guinea Ecuatorial, se fue a vivir a España a los 14 años. Escritor y periodista, fue director adjunto del Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano de Malabo, delegado de la Agencia EFE en África central y director del Centro de Estudios Africanos en la Universidad de Murcia.
  
  Su extensa labor de difusión del africanismo en España es unánimemente reconocida. En los círculos académicos está considerado como el máximo impulsor y el creador más notable de la literatura escrita en Guinea Ecuatorial, y uno de los escritores africanos más relevantes. Su Antología de la literatura guineana (1984) es considerada como la obra fundacional de la literatura guineana es

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