Osamu Yamamoto
Kanji Name: 山本おさむ.
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Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
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Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One sto -
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne
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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.
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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 -
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett is an English author and Tony Award-winning playwright. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor. Bennett's lugubrious yet expressive voice (which still bears a slight Leeds accent) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his own work (especially his autobiographical writing) very popular. His readings of the Winnie the Pooh stories are also widely enjoyed. -
Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.
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Taiyo Matsumoto
See also: 松本大洋 and 松本 大洋
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Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.
In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto st -
Alba de Céspedes
Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
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Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service
Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war -
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
Riad Sattouf
Riad Sattouf est l’auteur de nombreuses bandes dessinées, parmi lesquelles Retour au collège, Pascal Brutal (Fauve d’or 2010) ou La vie secrète des jeunes. Les beaux gosses, César du meilleur premier film ; Jacky au royaume des filles)
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Marcello Quintanilha
Marcello Quintanilha nasceu em Niterói, Brasil, em 1971. Começou, ainda adolescente, por desenhar histórias sobre artes marciais com o pseudónimo de Marcello Gáu. Mais tarde, em 2003, envolve-se na série "Sept balles pour Oxford", para uma editora belga, com argumento do argentino Jorge Zentner e do espanhol Montecarlo. Estabelece-se, a partir de 2002, em Barcelona. Ilustrações suas surgem desde então nos jornais espanhóis "El País" e "Vanguardia". Ao mesmo tempo, continua a produzir álbuns para o público brasileiro. Em 2005 foi dado à estampa "Salvador". Seguiram-se "Sábado dos meus amores" (2009), "Almas públicas" (2011), "O ateneu" (2012), "Tungstênio" (2014), "Talco de vidro" (2015), "Hinário nacional" (2016) e "Luzes de Niterói" (2018)
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Julien Neel
Julien Neel est un auteur français de bandes dessinées.
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Julien Neel is a French comic strip author. -
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Kohei Horikoshi
HORIKOSHI Kouhei
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Name (in native language): 堀越耕平
Associated Names:
Kouhei Horikoshi
Born 1986 in the prefecture Aichi, Horikoshi first attracted attention in the second half of 2006 when he entered Shueisha's 72th Tezuka Award for Newcomers with his one shot "Nukegara" and made it to the final six, where he gained himself an "Honorable Mention".
Various short stories in Shueisha's Akamaru JUMP followed over the years until he published his one shot "Oumagadoki Doubutsuen" in issue #2/2010 of Weekly Shounen JUMP.
Kouhei Horikoshi is a graduate of Nagoya University of Arts. He was previously an assistant to TANAKA Yasuki.
Zodiac: Scorpio
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Tiffany McDaniel
TIFFANY McDANIEL is the international bestselling author of Betty, The Summer that Melted Everything, and On the Savage Side. She is the winner of over a dozen literary prizes, including the Guardian's Not the Booker, Friends of American Writers Chicago, the Society of Midland Authors, and the FNAC. Her debut Middle Grade fantasy series, A Sky Full of Dragons, is forthcoming, August 27, 2024. Tiffany was awarded the prestigious title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in July 2021.
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She lives with cats and a dog surrounded by the trees and wildlife that she loves. When not writing, she may be found in the garden.
Follow Tiffany on Instagram @authortiffanymcdaniel
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Tomohito Oda
ODA Tomohito
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Name (in native language): 小田智仁
Associated Names: オダトモヒト
Tomohito Oda won the grand prize for World Worst One in the 70th Shogakukan New Comic Artist Awards in 2012. Oda’s series Digicon, about a tough high school girl who finds herself in control of an alien with plans for world domination, ran from 2014 to 2015. -
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Daruma Matsuura
Daruma Matsuura (松浦だるま) is a Japanese mangaka.
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Akane Torikai
Akane Torikai (Japanese: 鳥飼茜, Torikai Akane) is a Japanese manga author.
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Torikai entered the manga industry around 2004, working as an assistant to Minoru Furuya, while publishing her own short stories in shojo (girls') manga magazines, including 'Bessatsu Shojo Friend' and 'Be Love'.
Torikai acquired fame with her longer comics, serialised in seinen (adult) manga magazines. Her works usually tackle controversial topics, often with a feminist perspective. Among her books are: Sensei's Pious Lie (2013-2017), about a young female teacher dealing with sexual assault; Jigoku no Girlfriend (2014-2017), featuring three young women sharing an apartment and looking for their place in modern Japan; Wandering Cat’s Cage (2017-2018), set in a dystopian