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Mark Greenside

Mark Greenside holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a civil rights activist, Vietnam War protestor, anti-draft counselor, Vista Volunteer, union leader, and college professor. His stories have appeared in The Sun, The Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Nebraska Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, The New Laurel Review, Crosscurrents, Five Fingers Review, and The Long Story, as well as other journals and magazines, and he is the author of the short story collection, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife.

He presently lives in Alameda, California, where he continues to teach and be politically active, and Brittany, France, where he still can't do anything without asking for help.

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Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto (よしもとばなな or 吉本ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).)

Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age.

She graduated from Nihon University's Art College, majoring in Literature. During that time, she took the pseudonym "Banana" after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."

Despite her success, Yoshimoto remains a down-to-earth and obscure figure. Whenever she appears in public she eschews make-up and dre

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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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Mitsuyo Kakuta

Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, 1967–) set her sights on becoming a writer from an early age. Her debut novel—Kōfuku na yūgi (A Blissful Pastime), written while she was a university student—received the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. She has been working continuously as an author ever since, never having had to support herself with a separate job. Three nominations for the Akutagawa Prize serve as a measure of the promise with which she was regarded from early in her career. Then, at the encouragement of an editor, she shifted toward the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, where she garnered a much broader readership with works depicting the lives of women in her generation, from their mid-thirties to forties. After publishing two brill

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Ito Ogawa

Ito Ogawa (小川糸 Ogawa Ito; 1973) is a Japanese novelist, lyricist and translator.

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Kim Ho-yeon

Associated Names:
* 김호연 (Korean)
* Kim Ho-yeon (English)

Kim Ho-yeon (1974) is a writer and screenwriter.
Winner of numerous literary awards, this novel was the best-selling novel in South Korea in 2021, surpassing one million copies sold.

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Kenji Ueda

Kenji Ueda is a Japanese novelist known for blending fantasy with the charm of everyday life. Born in Tokyo in 1969, he made his debut as a writer in 2021 with Teppan (The Iron Griddle), the revised version of a work he wrote in 2019 for the 1st Japan Delicious Fiction Award.

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Yuu Nagira

Associated Names:
* 凪良ゆう (Japanese)
* Yuu Nagira (English)
* นางิระ ยู (Thai)

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Imogen Clark

Internationally bestselling author Imogen Clark has sold over one million books. She writes contemporary fiction about families and secrets. Her books have topped Amazon storewide charts eight times and her third book, Where the Story Starts, was shortlisted in the UK for Contemporary Romantic Novel of the year 2020.

Imogen initially qualified as a lawyer but after leaving her legal career behind to care for her four children, she returned to her first love - books. She went back to University, studying English Literature part-time whilst the children were at school. It was a short step from there to writing novels.

Imogen's great love is travel and she is always planning her next adventure. She lives in Yorkshire with her husband and childre

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Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.

青山美智子 Japanese name
青山美智子 Chinese name

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Yuta Takahashi

Yuta Takahashi is the award-winning author of the eight-book series Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen as well as several other popular series spanning historical and contemporary fiction. He was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and now lives in Tokyo.

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Lee Mi-ye

Lee Mi-ye (Korean name: 이미예) was born in Busan in 1990. After graduating from the Busan National University School of Materials Science and Engineering, she worked as a semiconductor engineer at Samsung Electronics. Her debut novel Dollagoot Dream Department Store—published through crowdfunding in 2020—has drawn enthusiastic responses and favorable reviews.

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Uketsu

Associated Names:
* Uketsu
* 雨穴
* อุเก็ตสึ (Thai Profile)

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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

Associated Names:
* Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
* 楊双子 (Traditional Chinese)

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Lee Mi-ye

Lee Mi-ye (Korean name: 이미예) was born in Busan in 1990. After graduating from the Busan National University School of Materials Science and Engineering, she worked as a semiconductor engineer at Samsung Electronics. Her debut novel Dollagoot Dream Department Store—published through crowdfunding in 2020—has drawn enthusiastic responses and favorable reviews.

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Ben Hoare

Ben Hoare is an author and editor who specializes in natural history. He has written or contributed to more than 40 reference books. His work has also appeared in BBC Wildlife and Birdwatch magazines and on BBC websites. He is a Fellow of the Zoological Society in London and presents regular talks and lectures at the Natural History Museum, London.

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Ryo Asai

Ryo Asai (朝井リョウ ) began creating picture books at the age of six and writing stories while still in grade school; soon he was submitting manuscripts to new-writer contests as he dreamed of publishing a book of his own. He made his literary debut as a student at Waseda University, when his novel Kirishima, bukatsu yamerutte yo (Kirishima Says He's Quitting the Team) took the 2009 Shosetsu Subaru New Writers' Award. He has kept up a constant stream of publications since his debut. When his novel Nanimono (Somebody) was awarded the Naoki Prize for the second half of 2012, he was only 23, making him the youngest male author to have ever won the award. His other works include Chia danshi!! (Guy Cheerleaders!!), Mo ichido umareru (To Be Born Over

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Kelly A. Turner

Dr. Kelly Turner is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant in the field of integrative oncology. Her specialized research focus is the Radical Remission of cancer, which is a remission that occurs either in the absence of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed. Her research is summarized in her upcoming book RADICAL REMISSION (HarperOne, March 18, 2014), available wherever books and e-books are sold. Dr. Turner has a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. When she's not studying incredible cases of healing, you'll find her either cozying up in Brooklyn with her family, waterskiing, or screenwriting. For more information, please visit http://www.DrKellyTurner.com .

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Satoshi Yagisawa

八木沢里志 (Satoshi Yagisawa) was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.

千葉県生まれ。日本大学芸術学部を卒業する。2008年、『森崎書店の日々』で東京都千代田区が主催する第3回ちよだ文学賞を受賞し、デビュー。2010年、同作が菊池亜希子主演で映画化される。神田伯剌西爾によく訪れ、コーヒーを嗜む。趣味はギター。

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.

She was the daughter of Frederic B. Perkins.

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Shoji Morimoto

Shoji Morimoto (森本祥司) was born in 1983. He began working as a rental person who does nothing in 2018 and has since been hired more than 4,000 times. He’s been profiled by many media outlets worldwide and has written several books including Rental Person Who Does Nothing, which inspired a Japanese TV series. Morimoto lives in Japan with his wife and son.

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Kikuko Tsumura

Kikuko Tsumura (Japanese name: 津村記久子) is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize.

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Baek Se-hee

Library of Congress Authorities:
Personal name heading: Paek, Se-hŭi, 1990-
Variant(s):
백 세희, 1990-
Baek, Se-hee, 1990-
Baek, Sehee, 1990-

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Genki Kawamura

Associated Names:
* Genki Kawamura (English)
* 川村元気 (Japanese)
* คาวามูระ เก็งกิ (Thai)

Genki Kawamura (川村元気) is a Japanese film producer, writer, screenwriter.

中文 >> 川村元氣.

Genki Kawamura is an internationally bestselling author. If Cats Disappeared from the World was his first novel and has sold over two million copies in Japan and has been translated into over fourteen different languages. His other novels are Million Dollar Man and April Come She Will. He has also written children's picture books including Tinny & The Balloon, MOOM, and Patissier Monster. Kawamura occasionally produces, directs, and writes movies, and is a showrunner. He was a producer of the blockbuster anime film Your Name, which is currently being developed into an live-act

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Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb has been a journalist since 1997, beginning her career at Adelaide’s Advertiser and moving on to cover politics first for the Age and then for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she was a columnist and sketch-writer. She is the author of Losing It: The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition (2005) and the Quarterly Essay Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull, which won a 2009 Walkley Award. She is presently the ABC’s chief online political writer.

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Sei Shōnagon

清少納言 in Japanese
Sei Shonagon (c. 966 -1017) was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is best known as the author of "The Pillow Book" (枕草子 makura no sōshi).

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Kirstin Innes

Kirstin Innes is an award-winning journalist and arts worker who lives in the west of Scotland. Fishnet, her debut novel, was published in April 2015 by Freight, and won The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and recorded for BBC Radio 4, and she's had short plays performed at Tron Theatre and The Arches in Glasgow. Her journalism has been published in The Independent, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The Herald, and she was assistant editor of The List magazine between 2006-2010. Kirstin won the Allen Wright Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism in 2007 and 2011.
She's currently working on her second novel, Scabby Queen, and her first full-length play, Take Your Partners.

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Jirō Asada

Jirō Asada (浅田次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸康次郎), a Japanese writer.

Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.

In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was al

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Kim Cho-yeop

Kim Choyeop (b. 1993) holds a BA in chemistry and an MA in biochemistry from Pohang University of Science and Technology. She launched her literary career in 2017 when two of her stories, “Irretrievable” (excerpted in this issue) and “If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light,” won the grand and runner-up prizes respectively at the 2017 Korean SF Awards. She then went on to win the Today’s Writer Award in 2019. Her debut short story collection, If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light (Hubble, 2019), was a record-breaking bestseller in South Korea, and a Japanese translation is set to be released by Hayakawa Publishing. One of the stories from the book, “Symbiosis Theory,” was also published in Clarkesworld magazine.

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Anne Lister

Anne Lister (1791–1840) was a well-off Yorkshire landowner, diarist and traveller. Throughout her life she kept diaries which chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships, her financial concerns, her industrial activities and her work improving Shibden Hall. Her diaries contain more than 4,000,000 words and about a sixth of them—those concerning the intimate details of her romantic and sexual relationships—were written in code. The code, derived from a combination of algebra and Ancient Greek, was deciphered in the 1930s. Lister is often called "the first modern lesbian" for her clear self-knowledge and openly lesbian lifestyle. Called "Fred" by her lover and "Gentleman Jack" by Halifax residents, she suf

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Scott Dominic Carpenter

Minnesota-born and Midwest-bred, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”), This Jealous Earth: Stories, French Like Moi (2020) and its sequel Paris Lost and Found, coming out 9/24. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018) and recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, he has published in a wide variety of venues, including The Rumpus, Silk Road, Catapult, and South Dakota Review. His work has also appeared in various anthologies.

When not tearing his hair out over life in France, Carpenter teaches French literature and creative writing at Carleton College (MN).

His website is at www.sdcarpenter.com.

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Durian Sukegawa

Durian Sukegawa studied oriental philosophy at Waseda University, before going on to work as a reporter in Berlin and Cambodia in the early 1990s. He has written a number of books and essays, TV programmes and films. He lives in Tokyo.

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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

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* Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
* 楊双子 (Traditional Chinese)

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Ryan Hopkins

Ryan Hopkins, the Author of '52 Weeks of Wellbeing: a no nonsense guide to a fulfilling work life' s on a mission to engage 1 billion people in the betterment of wellbeing.

He is the Chief Impact Officer at JAAQ and former Creator/Leader of the Global Future of Wellbeing Business at Deloitte - where he helped organisations/governments around the world to create workplaces where people can thrive, positively influencing the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

He shares his personal story of bulimia, depression, anxiety openly and has reached over 10's of millions people on social media.

Ryan is Linkedin Top Voice for Work Life Balance, TEDx Speaker - 'engaging a billion people from the toilet', Host of the Audacious Goals Club and rece

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Kanako Nishi

Born in Tehran in 1977 and raised in Osaka Prefecture.

After graduating with a law degree from Kansai University, Nishi made her debut as a novelist with Aoi in 2004. Her sophomore novel Sakura became a best-seller next year. She is also known for her novels Tsutenkaku, Kofuku Midori no and Entaku.

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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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Yun Ko-eun

Yun Ko Eun is her pen name and her real name is Ko Eun-ju. She was born in 1980 in Seoul, South Korea. She studied creative writing at Dongguk University. She made her literary debut in 2004 when she won the 2nd Daesan Collegiate Literary Prize. In 2008, she won the 13th Hankyoreh Literary Award for her novel Mujungryeok jeunghugun (무중력증후군 The Zero G Syndrome). She has published three short story collections: Irinyong siktak (1인용 식탁 Table for One), Aloha (알로하 Aloha), and Neulgeun chawa hichihaikeo (늙은 차와 히치하이커 The Old Car and Hitchhiker)—and the novel Bamui yeohaengjadeul (밤의 여행자들 Travelers of the Night).

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Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.

青山美智子 Japanese name
青山美智子 Chinese name

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Shizuko Natsuki

Shizuko Natsuki (夏樹静子) was born in Tokyo in 1938. She graduated from Keio University with a degree in English literature. She married in 1963 and moved to Fukuoka, where she has lived since that time with the exception of nine years spent in Nagoya. Natsuki is not only one of Japan’s best-selling mystery writers but also one of the most prolific. She has written more than eighty novels and short-story collections, and more than forty of her novels and stories have been made into films.

Natsuki published her first mystery novel, Tenshi ga kiete iku (the angel has gone), in 1970. The first of her novels to be translated into English was W no higeki (1982; Murder at Mount Fuji, 1984). Several of her short stories have been published in transla

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Ginger Park

Author of THE HUNDRED CHOICES DEPARTMENT STORE (awarded 2022 BEST BOOKS by Korean American Authors by Best of Korea) https://bestofkorea.com/round-up-of-k.... Recently published: GRANDPA'S SCROLL. Forthcoming: SUKA'S FARM (Fall, 2024), BINNA'S BIRTHDAY (Spring, 2025).

According to my life path number 3, I was destined to write (that is if you believe in numerology and I do). But as a youngster, I was an athlete, a gymnast with boundless energy, spending most of my time upside down, turning cartwheels and doing backflips – I was too carefree to tap into my creative side.

That all changed on my seventeenth birthday, two days after my father’s untimely death. Call it a gut-wrenching aha moment, a reflective day of tearful soul-searching when I r

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Liu Cathy

Associated Names:
* 劉凱西 (Chinese)
* Liu Cathy (English)
* หลิวข่ายซี (Thai)

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Genzaburo Yoshino

Genzaburo Yoshino (吉野源三郎) was a Japanese writer, editor and journalist.

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Ann Sei Lin

Ann Sei Lin is a writer and librarian with a love for all things fantasy. She loves worldbuilding more than anything. Especially diving into the details of the seemingly mundane. When not writing, she is often studying, gaming, or trying to make that origami rabbit for the one hundredth time.

The first book in her debut trilogy, Rebel Skies, is set to release March 2022, published by Walker Books.

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Shion Miura

Shion Miura (三浦しをん) (1976–) , daughter of a well-known Japanese classics scholar, acquired her love of reading at a very young age. When, as a senior in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, she began her job hunt looking for an editorial position, a literary agent recognized her writing talent and hired her to begin writing an online book review column even before she graduated. Miura made her fiction debut a year after finishing college, in 2000, when she published the novel Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight), based in part on her own experiences during the job hunt. When she won the Naoki Prize in 2006 for her linked-story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town), she had not

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi (in Japanese: 川口俊和) was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.

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Misaki .

Misaki
Name (in native language): 岬.
Associated Names:
岬.

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Hwang Bo-Reum

Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel, which has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before its release as a paperback, the novel was initially published as an e-book after winning an open contest co-organised by Korean content-publishing platform ‘Brunch’.

대학에서 컴퓨터공학을 전공하고 LG전자에서 소프트웨어 개발자로 일했다. 몇 번의 입사와 퇴사를 반복하면서도 매일 읽고 쓰는 사람으로서의 정체성은 잃지 않고 있다. 지은 책으로 『매일 읽겠습니다』, 『난생처음 킥복싱』, 『이 정도 거리가 딱 좋다』가 있다.

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Kopi Soh

Kopi Soh is the pseudonym of a US based Malaysian author and illustrator best known for her book Oh, I Thought I Was The Only One. She founded the Facebook community 'Stick It To Me', currently renamed 'Kopi Soh's Positive Healing Doodles', an initiative centered around producing "healing art" for the terminally sick and needy, and organizes a group of volunteers to produce art for hospitals and charities. Her work with 'Stick It To Me' was recognized in the Digi WWWOW Awards 2015, winning an award in the Social Gathering category. She also served as the official illustrator for TEDxWeldQuay2013.
Kopi Soh was also a former manager with a women's center, training social workers and counselors. She counsels victims in Domestic Violence situati

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Kenji Ueda

Kenji Ueda is a Japanese novelist known for blending fantasy with the charm of everyday life. Born in Tokyo in 1969, he made his debut as a writer in 2021 with Teppan (The Iron Griddle), the revised version of a work he wrote in 2019 for the 1st Japan Delicious Fiction Award.

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Hideo Yokoyama

Hideo Yokoyama (横山秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1998 when his collection of police stories Kage no kisetsu (Season of Shadows) won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize; the volume was also short-listed for the Naoki Prize. In 2000 his story Doki (Motive) was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Short Stories. His 2002 novel Han'ochi (Half Solved) earned a Konomys No. 1 and gained him a place among Japan's best-selling authors. He repeated his Konomys No. 1 ranking in 2013 with 64 Rokuyon (64), his first novel in seven years. Other prominent works include his 2003 Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High), c

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Cecilia Eudave

Cecilia Eudave nació en Guadalajara, México el 11 de abril de 1968. Es una escritora, investigadora, Profesora y coordinadora de la Maestría en Estudios de Literatura Mexicana en la Universidad de Guadalajara. Pertenece también al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI).

Estudió el doctorado en Lenguas romances en la Universidad de Montpellier. Ha participado en diferentes suplementos y revistas culturales de México y en el extranjero como en la formación de alumnos que han cursado la carrera de letras.

En 1990 obtuvo la Beca Nacional Salvador Novo en narrativa que otorga el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, El Colegio de México y el centro Mexicano de escritores. En 1997 fue becada por el Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Jalis

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September’s Blue

Associated Names:
* September's Blue
* ศิริกมล ตาน้อย

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Hisashi Kashiwai

Hisashi Kashiwai was born in 1952 and was raised in Kyoto. He graduated from Osaka Dental University. After graduating, he returned to Kyoto and worked as a dentist. He has written extensively about his native city and has collaborated in TV programs and magazines.

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Nick Bradley

Nick Bradley holds a PhD from UEA focussing on the figure of the cat in Japanese literature. He lived in Japan for many years where he worked as a translator, and currently teaches on the Creative Writing master's programme at the University of Cambridge. His debut novel, The Cat and The City, was published in 2020.

Four Seasons in Japan is his second, and was published in the UK on June 22nd 2023 by Doubleday. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

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Atsuhiro Yoshida

Japanese name: 吉田篤弘
A literary mainstay in Japan, Atsuhiro Yoshida is the author of over 40 books. He is also an innovative book designer and part of a creative design duo with his wife, Hiromi, under their company, Craft-Ebbing & Co. In 1994, the pair launched into the Japanese literary scene with an art exhibition featuring handcrafted covers for fictional books, gaining attention for their unconventional designs and thought-provoking titles. (Japan Times)

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Seichō Matsumoto

Seicho Matsumoto (松本清張, Matsumoto Seichō), December 21, 1909 – August 4, 1992) was a Japanese writer.

Matsumoto's works created a new tradition of Japanese crime fiction. Dispensing with formulaic plot devices such as puzzles, Matsumoto incorporated elements of human psychology and ordinary life into his crime fiction. In particular, his works often reflect a wider social context and postwar nihilism that expanded the scope and further darkened the atmosphere of the genre. His exposé of corruption among police officials as well as criminals was a new addition to the field. The subject of investigation was not just the crime but also the society in which the crime was committed.

The self-educated Matsumoto did not see his first book in print u

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Yuta Takahashi

Yuta Takahashi is the award-winning author of the eight-book series Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen as well as several other popular series spanning historical and contemporary fiction. He was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and now lives in Tokyo.

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Cicely Mary Barker

Cicely Mary Barker was the illustrator who created the famous Flower Fairies; those ethereal smiling children with butterfly wings. As a child she was influenced by the works of the illustrator Kate Greenaway, whom she assiduously copied in her formative years. Her principal influence, however, was the artwork of the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Chris Broad

Chris Broad is a British filmmaker and founder of the Abroad in Japan YouTube channel, one of the largest foreign YouTube channels in Japan with over 2.5 million subscribers and 400 million views. Over ten years and two hundred videos, Chris has visited all of Japan's forty-seven prefectures, focusing Abroad in Japan on travel, food and culture. He has also covered contemporary issues through documentaries on the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. His experiences have made him a sought-after voice on life inside Japan and he has been featured on the BBC, TEDx, NHK and the Japan Times.

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Nanae Aoyama

青山七恵

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Riku Onda

Riku Onda (Japanese name: 恩田陸), born in 1964, is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since 1991 and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. The Aosawa Murders was her first crime novel and the first time she was translated into English. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2020.

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Bryan E. Robinson

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Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. is a novelist, licensed psychotherapist, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. He has authored over thirty-five nonfiction books including Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them (3rd Ed., New York University Press, 2013), The Smart Guide to Managing Stress (Smart Guide Publications, 2012), The Art of Confident Living (HCI Books, 2009), Don’t Let Your Mind Stunt Your Growth (New Harbinger Press, 2000), and Heal Your Self-Esteem (HCI Books, 1991) just to name a few. His debut novel is a Southern murder mystery titled Limestone Gumption (published by Gale/

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Naoki Hyakuta

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* Naoki Hyakuta
* 百田尚樹 (Japanese)
* 百田尚樹 (Chinese)

Naoki Hyakuta is a Japanese novelist and television producer. He is known for his right-wing political views and denying Japanese war crimes prior to and during World War II. He is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which became a popular 2013 film, his controversial period as a governor of government broadcaster NHK, as well as his support of Nanjing Massacre denial. Hyakuta has written a number of other books, several of which have been turned into films, such as Bokkusu and Monsuta.

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Haruki Shimizu

清水晴木

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Paul Krueger

Paul Krueger is a fantasy author and lapsed Chicagoan currently living in Los Angeles. His bartending-and-magic debut novel, LAST CALL AT THE NIGHTSHADE LOUNGE, was published by Quirk Books in June of 2016. His next, STEEL CROW SAGA, is forthcoming in fall of 2019 from Del Rey Books.

His non-writing hobbies include cooking, D&D, karaoke, and collecting comics. He's also a musician, fronting the Adventure Time-themed punk band Lemonbadd.

If found, Paul should be returned to DongWon Song of Howard Morhaim Literary.

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Kumi Kimura

Kumi Kimura is a Japanese writer. She won the Literary World Newcomer Award for her debut novel, and has subsequently been shortlisted twice for the Akutagawa Prize and won the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize. Someone to Watch Over You is her first work to be translated into English.

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Jennifer Lane

Jennifer Lane is an author and freelance writer. She has written for Vogue, The Week, Dazed, BBC, Wildlife Trusts, and RSPB to encourage people to get outdoors and explore nature in order to de-stress their lives.

Her book The Wheel, on her year exploring Pagan practices and reconnecting with nature, was published by September Publishing (2021). Since then, she has also written The Witch's Survival Guide (2023), The Black Air (2023) and The Second-Hand Boy (2024). In June 2018, she won a Northern Writers’ Award for her children’s fiction which looks at destigmatising mental health issues for a younger audience. She is represented by Charlotte Atyeo at Charlie Campbell Literary Agents.

Her next book, a work of adult non-fiction, will be publis

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Martha Barnette

I’ve cohosted “A Way with Words,” the public radio show and podcast about words and how we use them, for 21 years now! My new book Friends with Words is a warm, witty memoir about the joys of language and the power of words to connect us.

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Michael Booth

Michael Booth is an English food and travel writer and journalist who writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines including the Independent on Sunday, Condé Nast Traveller, Monocle and Time Out, among many other publications at home and abroad. He has a wife, Lissen, and two children, Asger and Emil.

In June 2010 Michael Booth won the Guild of Food Writers/Kate Whiteman Award for work in food and travel.

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Yasushi Kitagawa

喜多川泰

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Yuu Nagira

Associated Names:
* 凪良ゆう (Japanese)
* Yuu Nagira (English)
* นางิระ ยู (Thai)

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Kiyoshi Shigematsu

重松清, Shigematsu Kiyoshi
Shigematsu Kiyoshi is a contemporary Japanese writer. He is one of the best-selling authors in Japan, and the major theme of his novels is about family. His most notable works include Naifu (ナイフ) (1997), Eiji (エイジ) (1999) and Bitamin F (ビタミンF) (2000).
Shigematsu’s works in other genre including journals, editorials and critics are highly commended. He also worked in novelising screenplays.

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Iain Maloney

Iain Maloney was born in Aberdeen and now lives in Japan. He is the author of 8 books and the forthcoming The Japan Lights (Summer 2023)

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Olga Grushin

Olga Grushin is the author of four novels - The Charmed Wife, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, The Line, and Forty Rooms - as well as short stories, literary criticism, essays, and other works. She has been awarded the 2007 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named one of the Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine; her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Partisan Review, Vogue, and other publications.

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Muhammad Syaari Ab. Rahman

Anak kelahiran Tumpat, Kelantan merupakan Jurulatih Utama (Principal Trainer) sepenuh masa di syarikat milik beliau sendiri, Ibrah Paradigm Training & Consultancy. Syarikat tersebut diwujudkan sejak Mei 2011.

Beliau merupakan Graduan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Bahasa dan Sastera Arab dari Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia dan kini sedang melanjutkan pengajian ke peringkat Sarjana dalam bidang Tafsir al-Quran di Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Kajian Sarjana beliau bertajuk “Aplikasi Ilmu Munasabah dalam Kisah Nabi Ibrahim a.s.” dan bercita-cita untuk menjadi ahli akademik dan pakar dalam tafsir maudhuie al-Quran.

Beliau telah mendirikan rumah tangga selama hampir 8 tahun dengan Puan Nurul Suhadah Haji Shuib dan kini dikurniakan dua orang

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Kyōko Nakajima

Nakajima (中島京子) is an award-winning essayist and novelist from Japan. She studied at the Tokyo Woman's Christian University. Her many prizes include: the Naoki Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. And her story Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House), was adapted for cinema in 2014.

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Ng Ziqin

Ng Ziqin is an undergraduate law student at the National University of Singapore. Her writing has been featured in RICE and Asia Law Network. In 2020, she placed third in a youth op-ed competition with her piece, “We Need to Stop Promoting Science as the Default JC Stream.” Her biggest literary heroes are Terry Pratchett and Adrian Tan, and she has a growing taste for mystery novels and psychological thrillers. One day, Ziqin hopes to achieve her lifelong dream of retiring in a cave house, where she will write whodunits that take place in Yishun. Every School a Good School is her first novel.

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Park Makrye

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* Park Makrye (English)
* 박막례 (Korean)

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Marjorie Wilenski

Marjorie Wilenski was born 6 June 1889.

She attended the University of London just before World War I. She later married art critic and historian Reginald Wilenski, and the couple lived in St. John’s Wood, London.

In 1939, just before the war that provided the setting for her one novel, Table Two, she was employed at a department store. The setting of the novel itself, which followed in 1942, strongly suggests she took on important war work in London during the conflict.

Marjorie Wilenski died 25 May 1965.

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Akio Morisawa

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* Akio Morisawa
* 森沢明夫 (Japanese Profile)
* โมริซาวะ อากิโอะ (Thai Profile)

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Toshiki Okada

Toshiki Okada (岡田利規 Okada Toshiki, born July 3, 1973) is a Japanese playwright, theater director, novelist, and founder of the theatrical company chelfitsch. He is known for "his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and his unique choreography."

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Aoya Mami

Associated Names:
* Aoya Mami (English)
* 青谷真未 (Japanese)

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John Rowland

John Herbert Shelley Rowland was a B.S.c with Honours in Chemistry.

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Jolene Tan

Jolene Tan is a writer from Singapore who lives in England. She has also lived in Germany.

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John Dougill

John Dougill grew up in Grimsby and has spent the rest of his life getting as far away as possible. He currently resides in Kyoto, Japan, where he is professor of British Studies at Ryukoku University. His student days took place at Leeds University and Queen's College, Oxford, in the heady days of the early 1970s when the future beckoned with golden arms. He completed his education at the University of Life when he spent a year travelling round the world: Nepal and Bali were his favourites. As a teacher, he spent three years in the Middle East and seven years in Oxford before moving to Japan in 1986. In addition to the books listed here he has produced twelve Japanese college textbooks and 'Gentleman and Hooligan: The British on Film 1921-

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Katrina Stuart Santiago

Katrina Stuart Santiago is a Filipino writer, essayist, and critic known for her insightful commentary on Philippine arts, culture, and politics. She is also a co-founder of Everything's Fine, an independent bookstore, gallery, and small press in Manila.

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Christopher Green

Christopher writes short stories and children's stories. His first collection of short stories Takeout Sushi was published by Neem Tree Press in May 2024. He lives near Tokyo with his wife and daughter.

For a little more about Christopher and his books, please visit
www.greeninjapan.com.

For Christopher's goodreads page for his children's books, please visit
Chris Green.

Thank you for reading!

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Catherine Carswell

Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (née Macfarlane) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, and a contributor to the Scottish Renaissance. Her work is considered an integral part of Scottish women's writing of the early 20th century.

The daughter of a Glasgow merchant, Carswell was educated at the Park School. From 1901 to 1903 she attended classes in English Literature at Glasgow University. She went on to study music at the Schumann Conservatorium in Frankfurt am Main before taking up employment as reviewer and dramatic critic at the Glasgow Herald from 1907 until 1915. She was subsequently an assistant theatre critic for the Observer.

Carswell's first marriage, to Herbert Jackson in 1903, was annulled in 1908, and in 1915 she married Do

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Jennifer Grayson

Jennifer Grayson is a journalist and the author of UNLATCHED: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy (HarperCollins), which won the Society of Environmental Journalists Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and a Nautilus Book Award. She has been featured on more than three dozen media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, WGN-TV, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Huffington Post, where she penned the long-running “Innovation Earth” and “Eco Etiquette” columns.

Her new book, A CALL TO FARMS: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World — for which she undertook a regenerative farmer training program in Central Oregon at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — wa

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Walid Jumblatt Abdullah

Walid Jumblatt Abdullah is a PhD candidate under the Joint Degree Program between National University of Singapore and King's College, London. He works on state and religion relations, Southeast Asian politics, and political parties and elections. His works have been published in journals including Asian Survey, Journal of Church and State, and Government and Opposition.

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Noel Aquino

Noel Aquino is a Filipino American makata (poet) who loves to write about the simple things in life, turning the mundane into the extraordinary. He reflects his diverse interests in his poetry, be it by the words, by the music pairing, or through captions.

Whenever he is not writing, he spends time with his loved ones, cooking food, playing board games and video games, watching k-pop concerts, and enjoying nature.

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George Seferis

George Seferis, pen name of Georgios Seferiadis,
Greek: Γιώργος Σεφέρης

Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture."
First Greek to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgos...

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Won Jisu

Associated Names:
* Won Jisu (English)
* 원지수 (Korean)
* ว็อนจีซู (Thai)

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Sonal Kohli

Sonal Kohli grew up in Delhi and now lives in Washington, D.C. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a BA in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. She has received fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Sangam House. 'The House Next to the Factory', her critically acclaimed book of linked stories, was long listed for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, was a Book of the Year for The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Wire and is a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.

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Michi Ichiho

Associated Names:
* Michi Ichiho (Japanese)
* 一穂ミチ (Japanese)

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Kim Yideum

Kim Yi-deum was born in Jinju, South Korea and raised in Busan. She studied German literature at Pusan National University, and earned her doctoral degree in Korean literature at Gyeongsang National University. She made her literary debut when the quarterly journal Poesie published “The Bathtubs” (욕조 a에서 달리는 욕조 A를 지나) and six other poems in its Fall 2001 Issue. Her poems have attracted attention for their sensual imagination and violence.

Kim was a radio host for “Kim Yi-deum’s Monday Poetry Picks” (김이듬의 월요시선), which aired on KBS Radio Jinju. In 2012, she spent a semester at the Free University of Berlin as a writer in residence, sponsored by Arts Council Korea. Based on her experience there, she wrote her fourth poetry collection Bereulin,

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Sarah Baxter

Sarah Baxter is a writer, book author and editor specialising in travel, adventure, history and the great outdoors. In the name of exploration, she's climbed Kilimanjaro, snorkelled with killer whales, eaten sheep's brain, walked on the wings of a bi-plane, descended into an Icelandic volcano, learned to salsa in Barcelona and much, much more. Formerly deputy editor at Wanderlust travel magazine, she now writes for a range of outlets including The Telegraph, The Independent, iPaper, Wanderlust, Sunday Times Travel magazine, Country Walking and others. She has also authored many books, including A History of the World in 500 Walks, The Inspired Traveller's Guide to Spiritual Places and Lonely Planet's Where to Go When.

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Arlene J. Chai

Arlene J. Chai (b. 1955) is a Filipino-Chinese-Australian who migrated to Australia with her parents and sisters in 1982 because of the political upheaval. She became an advertising copywriter at George Patterson's advertising agency in 1972 and has been working there since. It is there that she met her mentor Bryce Courtney, who continuously inspires her to improve her work.

She won the Louis Braille Adult Audio Book of the year for her novel "On the Goddess Rock" in 1999.

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Kim Nan-do

Associated Names:
* 김난도 (Korean)
* Kim Nan-do (English)
* คิมรันโด (Thai)

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Sonoko Machida

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