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Indah Hanaco

Indah Hanaco penyuka novel-novel historical romance. Tergila-gila pada segala hal yang berbau tahun 90-an. Juga sederet serial kriminal dan film-film romance. Mendadak mellow hanya karena gerimis. Kolektor majalah dan buku-buku resep yang jarang dimanfaatkan.

Fans sejati Michael Schumacher yang memilih berhenti menonton balapana Formula Satu begitu sang idola pensiun. Tidak bisa lepas dari kopi meski sangat tidak menyukai kopi.

Indah Hanaco pernah bekerja kantoran, tetapi benar-benar merasa menemukan "dunia" saat menjadi penulis. Cita-cita saat ini adalah pindah dan menetap di Yogyakarta, keliling Eropa serta menghabiskan sisa hidup untuk menulis.

Indah Hanaco telah menerbitkan 23 novel, beberapa buku anak dan parenting. Indah Hanaco juga men

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Rick Yancey

aka Richard Yancey.

Rick is a native Floridian and a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He earned a B.A. in English which he put to use as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service. Inspired and encouraged by his wife, he decided his degree might also be useful in writing books and in 2004 he began writing full-time.

Since then he has launched two critically acclaimed series: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, for young readers, and The Highly Effective Detective, for adults. Both books are set in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Rick lived for ten years before returning to Florida.

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Natsuhiko Kyogoku

Natsuhiko Kyogoku ( 京極夏彦 Kyōgoku Natsuhiko, born March 26, 1963) is a Japanese mystery writer, who is a member of Ōsawa Office. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.

Three of his novels have been turned into feature films; Mōryō no Hako, which won the 1996 Mystery Writers of Japan Award, was also made into an anime TV series, as was Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari, and his book Loups=Garous was adapted into an anime feature film. Vertical have published his debut novel as The Summer of the Ubume.

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Yukiya Shoji

Yukiya Shōji (小路幸也) made his debut as a writer by winning the 2002 Mephisto Award for Sora o miageru furui uta o kuchizusamu (Singing an Old Song about Looking Up at the Sky). Among his many works published since then are the Tokyo bandowagon (Tokyo Bandwagon) series, Cow House, and Hanasaki kōji yonchōme no seijin (The Holy Man of Hanasaki Street). He works at the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, in genres ranging from family novels to mysteries.

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Aki Hamanaka

Associated Names:
Aki Hamanaka(English)
葉真中顕(Japanese)
葉真中顯(Traditional Chinese)
叶真中显(Simplified Chinese)

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Hye-Young Pyun

편혜영(片惠英,1972년~)은 대한민국의 소설가이다. 서울에서 태어났으며, 서울예대 문예창작과를 졸업하고 한양대학교 국어국문학과 대학원 석사과정을 졸업했다. 2000년 서울신문 신춘문예에 단편소설 〈이슬털기〉가 당선되면서 데뷔했다. 2007년 단편소설 〈사육장 쪽으로〉로 제40회 한국일보문학상을, 2009년 단편소설 〈토끼의 묘〉로 제10회 이효석문학상을, 2012년 소설집 〈저녁의 구애〉로 제42회 동인문학상을, 2014년 단편소설 〈몬순〉으로 제38회 이상문학상을 수상했다. 현재 명지대학교 문예창작학과 교수(2013~)로 재직 중이다.

Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. After receiving these degrees, Pyun worked as an office worker, and many office workers appear in her stories.

Pyun began publishing in 2000 and published three collections of stories, Aoi Garden, To The Kennels, and Evening Courtship as well as the novel Ashes and Red. In 2007, To

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Yukito Ayatsuji

(Japanese: 綾辻行人)

'Yukito Ayatsuji' is the original creator of Another. He is a famous writer of mystery and Japanese detective fiction. He is also one of the writers that demands restoration of the classic rules of detective fiction and the use of more self reflective elements. He is married to Fuyumi Ono, author of The Twelve Kingdoms and creator of Ghost Hunt, Juuni Kokuki, and the author for a few other manga.

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Chandra Bientang

Chandra Bientang was born in Jakarta on February 17, 1989 and she has lived in Bekasi, Muntilan, and Bogor, before returning to Jakarta. She studied philosophy at the University of Indonesia, enrolling in 2007 and graduating in 2013.

She published her first novel in 2019, an urban thriller entitled Dua Dini Hari, with Noura Publishing (Mizan Group). In that same year, her short story Anak Kucing Leti (Leti's Kitten) was selected for the Emerging Writers Program at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, organized by the Mudra Swari Saraswati Foundation. It was then translated into English and published at the festival, along with other Emerging Writers and established Indonesian authors in the book Karma: A Bilingual Anthology of Indonesian Wr

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Evi Kristiya Asmara

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Kyūsaku Yumeno

Yumeno Kyūsaku (native name: 夢野久作) was the pen name of the early Shōwa period Japanese author Sugiyama Yasumichi. The pen name literally means "a person who always dreams." He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives.

Kyūsaku’s first success was a nursery tale Shiraga Kozō (White Hair Boy, 1922), which was largely ignored by the public. It was not until his first novella, Ayakashi no Tsuzumi (Apparitional Hand Drum, 1924) in the literary magazine Shinseinen that his name became known.

His subsequent works include Binzume jigoku (Hell in the Bottles, 1928), Kori no hate (End of the Ice, 1933) and his most significant novel Dogra Magra (ドグラマグラ, 19

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Kanae Minato

Kanae MINATO (湊かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.

She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.

She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu"(eww mystery), a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature.

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LM Cendana

I'm half alien half human.

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Ayu Welirang

Ayu Welirang is the author of Go Kory, Go!, Not for IT Folks, Opera Terakhir (short story in Antologi Kasus Sherlock Holmes Fans Indonesia), Double Life, Mata Pena series, Lelaki Bernama Sidik (short story in Antologi Detectives ID 2: Histerical Mystery), Rumah Kremasi, Halo Tifa, 7 Divisi, and Februari: Ecstasy. She is also the Indonesian translator of the first inverted detective story by R. Austin Freeman, entitled The Singing Bone. Her latest thriller book, Jejak Balak was chosen as the 2nd Winner of #LombaThrillerGPU held by Gramedia Pustaka Utama (GPU) and Gramedia Writing Project (GWP). In 2023, Ayu won the Author of the Year award from the Scarlet Pen Awards organized by Detectives ID.

In addition to fiction, she also wrote some ligh

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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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Hiroshi Mori

See 森博嗣

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Mikihiko Renjō

Associated Names:
* Mikihiko Renjō

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Eriko Ono

name in native language: おのえりこ

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Tô Hoài

Nhà văn Tô Hoài (1920-2014) là một trong những cây bút văn xuôi tiêu biểu của văn học Việt Nam hiện đại. Ông là tác giả của hàng trăm cuốn sách thuộc nhiều thể loại: Truyện ngắn, tiểu thuyết, bút ký, tự truyện... Trong số đó nổi tiếng nhất là tác phẩm Dế Mèn phiêu lưu ký viết cho thiếu nhi từ những năm trước Cách mạng.

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Vie Asano

Kadang nulis, kadang ngedit, seringnya rebahan. Orangnya random banget, selera musiknya pun sama randomnya, mulai dari pop Melayu hingga heavy metal.

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Miyuki Miyabe

See also 宮部みゆき (Japanese language profile) and 宮部美幸 (Chinese language profile).

Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき Miyabe Miyuki) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres including science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction.
Miyabe started writing novels at the age of 23. She has been a prolific writer, publishing dozens of novels and winning many major literary prizes, including the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize in 1993 for Kasha and the Naoki Prize in 1998 for Riyū [The Reason] (理由). A Japanese film adaptation of Riyû, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, was released in 2004.

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Abi Ardianda

Known for 'Kelab dalam Swalayan’ (Night Club in the Convenience Store), which was named one of the top five reads by Indonesian authors by The Jakarta Post in 2021. This debut novel also won Best Debut Novel and Best Psychological Thriller at the Scarlet Pen Awards in 2021. Her second novel, 'Laila Tak Pulang’ (Laila Doesn’t Come Home), was a finalist for the Ayu Utami Awards RASA in 2023. The novel was also awarded Best Novel and Best Mystery Novel of 2023 by the Scarlet Pen Awards. Her books have been featured at the Makassar International Writers Festival 2024 and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2024. She resides in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

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Geling Yan

Geling Yan (嚴歌苓) is one of the most acclaimed novelists and screenwriters writing in the Chinese language today and a well-established writer in English. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution, starting at age twelve as a dancer in an entertainment troupe.

After serving for over a decade with the PLA (including tours in Tibet and as a war correspondent during the Sino-Vietnam border conflict), Ms. Yan was discharged with a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel. She published her first novel in 1986 and ever since has produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, novellas, essays and scripts. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, published by HarperCollins; Li

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Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses meta-fiction in his works, writing stories within stories.

Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled "A Novel about the History of Philosophy." This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print, with three million copies sold in Germany alone.

In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000

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Kazuaki Takano

Kazuaki Takano emerged from the film industry to become a best-selling author.
He began making films for himself when he was only in grade school, and as an adult worked for a time under the director Kihachi Okamoto.

After dropping out of university in Japan to gain first-hand experience in film and television production, he went to college in Los Angeles and worked in the movie industry there before returning to Japan.

His debut as a writer came in 2001 with Jusan kaidan (Thirteen Steps), which delves into the system of capital punishment; the novel won the Edogawa Rampo Award and sold over 400,000 copies.

Jenosaido (Genocide of One) was short-listed for the Naoki Prize in 2011, received the 2011 Yamada Futaro Prize, and took first place i

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Windry Ramadhina

young woman with lots of interests, ambitions and dreams, which shattered into pieces, each surfaced as different face and waiting for itself to become whole once more time. her world came to architecture, illustration, photography, literature, business, and japan. used to known as miss worm in cyber world. shattering her pieces at kemudian.com and deviantart.com

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Keigo Higashino

Associated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)

Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co.　(presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.

In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and pu

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Leila S. Chudori

Leila Salikha Chudori adalah penulis Indonesia yang menghasilkan berbagai karya cerita pendek, novel, dan skenario drama televisi.Leila S. Chudori bercerita tentang kejujuran, keyakinan, dan tekad, prinsip dan pengorbanan. Mendapat pengaruh dari bacaan-bacaan dari buku-buku yang disebutnya dalam cerpen-cerpennya yang kita ketahui dari riwayat hidupnya ialah Franz Kafka, pengarang Jerman yang mempertanyakan eksistensi manusia, Dostoyewsky pengarang klasik Rusia yang menggerek jauk ke dalam jiwa manusia. D.H Lawrence pengarang Inggris yang memperjuangkan kebebasan mutlak nurani manusia, pengarang Irlandia James Joyce, yang terkenal dengan romannya Ullysses. Suatu pelaksanaan proses kreatif Stream of Consciousnes, Herman Jesse, Freud, Erich Fr

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Kanae Minato

Kanae MINATO (湊かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.

She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.

She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu"(eww mystery), a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature.

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Chan Ho-Kei

Chan Ho-Kei 陳浩基 was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, scriptwriter, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started in 2008 at the age of thirty-three, with the short story ‘The Case of Jack and the Beanstalk,’ which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He went on to win the award again the following year with ‘The Locked Room of Bluebeard.’

In 2011, Chan’s first novel, THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD, won the biggest mystery prize in the Chinese-speaking world, the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, and has subsequently been published in Taiwan (Crown), China (New Star), Japan (Bungeishunju), Thailand (Nanmee) and Italy (Metropoli d’Asia).

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Anastasia Aemilia

Anastasia Aemilia lahir di Jakarta, 9 Januari 1987. Setelah lulus dari Jurusan Bahasa Inggris FKIP Universitas Katolik Atmajaya, ia bekerja sebagai editor, penerjemah, dan pengarang di Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Bercita-cita hidup nomaden, menjelajah dunia, dan menjadi travel writer, malah banting setir menulis novel psychology thriller.

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Yudhi Herwibowo

YUDHI HERWIBOWO ia an Indonesian novelist. He was wrote a many book already, from a kind of genres. Usually he use HIKOZZA for japanese novel that he wrote and YUDHI H. for some comedy novel

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Tokuya Higashigawa

Tokuya Higashigawa (1968–) debuted in 2002 with a novel that won him the Kappa-ONE Newcomers Prize in a contest open to the general public. Since then, he has concentrated solely on writing humorous mysteries, a genre that is not well established in Japan. With Nazotoki wa dina no ato de (The Riddle-Solving Can Wait till After Dinner), he became a best-selling author. Jokes and witty dialogue between unconventional characters are his forte, but his works are held solidly together by tricks of logic and well-conceived puzzles. Higashigawa has received praise from older mystery writers for his skillful reinventions of such devices as the locked-room murder and the dying message, and for his versatility in being able to craft novels that invol

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Polly Rosenwaike

POLLY ROSENWAIKE has published stories, essays, and reviews in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, The New York Times Book Review, Glimmer Train, New England Review, The Millions, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the fiction editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review and lives in Ann Arbor with her family.

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Kim Sang-hyun

Associated Names:
* 김상현 (Korean)
* Kim Sang-hyun (English)
* คิมซังฮยอน (Thai)

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Eleanor Atkinson

Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1863–1942) was a journalist, publisher, and author. Born in Indiana, she began her career as a schoolteacher in Indianapolis and Chicago. She wrote for the Chicago Tribune under the pen name “Nora Marks,” and worked as the publisher for the Little Chronicle Publishing Company. In 1912, she published her best-known work: the classic children’s story Greyfriars Bobby.

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Candra Aditya

the cutest owl ever

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Joo Youngha

Associated Names:
* 주영하 (Korean)
* Joo Youngha (English)
* ชูยองฮา (Thai)

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Eva Sri Rahayu

Menulis thriller, romansa, dan chicklit. Menyukai kucing, dandelion, dan warna hijau. Margaret Mitchell dan Scarlet O'Hara adalah inspirasinya.

Buku:
1. Voice from the Past (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2019)
2. Playing Victim (NouraBooks, 2019)
3. Parade Para Monster (Clover, 2017)
4. TwiRies - The Freaky Twins Diaries (deTeens, 2014)
5. Love Puzzle (Teen@Noura, 2013)
6. Dunia Trisa (Stiletto Book, 2011)
7. I'm Not an Underdog (Bukupop, 2006)

IG: @eva.srirahayu

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Bey Tobing

Carolina Betty Tobing, usually called by her nickname Bey, was born in Rumbai, Pekanbaru. She was graduated from Trisakti University as a Bachelor Economic, and now she resides in Jakarta.

She fell in love with writing when she was in Elementary and it became her passion ever since.

In 2010, her writing had succesfully gotten into top 20 (out 0f 300 novels) of "100% Roman Asli Indonesia" which held by Gagas Media. She also attended a film-making class in order to learn how to visualize a writing and how to deepen a figure's character.

Aside from writing, Bey loves to spend her spare time by reading books and travelling. She said that many inspirations could come up whilst traveling.

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Vinca Callista

Published Novels:

1. Sang Panglima Laskar Onyx (fantasylit, GagasMedia 2007)

2. Semburat Senyum Sore (teenlit, Grasindo 2011)

3. Lima Mata Manusia (short stories, nulisbuku.com 2011)

4. Dunsa (fantasylit, Atria 2011)

5. SERUAK (psychothriller novel, Grasindo 2014)

6. Nyawa (psychothriller novel, Bentang Pustaka 2015)

7. Kilah (psychothriller novel, Grasindo 2015)

8. Daddy's Little Girl (psychothriller novel, coming soon)

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Rikako Akiyoshi

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