Taeko Kōno

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  Fujiwara no Teika

  Born in 1162
  
  Japanese classical poet, government official, and literary scholar, also known as Fujiwara Sadaie (藤原定家)
  
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  Felisberto Hernández

  Uruguayan writer and pianist.
  Considered to be the forefather of fabulism, predating writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino and Julio Cortázar, who all note Hernández as a major influence.

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  Mieko Kanai

  Mieko Kanai (金井 美恵子 Kanai Mieko?, born November 3, 1947 in Takasaki) is a Japanese writer of fiction, especially short stories, as well as poetry. She is also a literary critic.
  
  Mieko Kanai read widely in fiction and poetry from an early age. In 1967, at the young age of twenty, she was runner-up for the Dazai Osamu Prize for Ai no seikatsu (A Life of Love), and the following year she received the Gendaishi Techo Prize for poetry. While maintaining a certain distance from literary circles and journalism, she has built up her own world of fiction with a sensual style. Along with her fiction, her criticism, which shows off her scathing, acid insight, has a devoted following.

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  Ryū Murakami

  Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.
  
  Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.
  
  Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his bles

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  William Gaddis

  William Gaddis was the author of five novels. He was born in New York December 29, 1922. The circumstances why he left Harvard in his senior year are mysterious. He worked for The New Yorker for a spell in the 1950s, and absorbed experiences at the bohemian parties and happenings, to be later used as material in The Recognitions. Travel provided further resources of experience in Mexico, in Costa Rica, in Spain and Africa and, perhaps strangest to imagine of him, he was employed for a few years in public relations for a pharmaceutical corporation.
  
  The number of printed interviews with Gaddis can be counted on one hand: he wondered why anyone should expect an author to be at all interesting, after having very likely projected the best of them

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  Lydia Davis

  Lydia Davis, acclaimed fiction writer and translator, is famous in literary circles for her extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. In fall 2003 she received one of 25 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” awards. In granting the award the MacArthur Foundation praised Davis’s work for showing “how language itself can entertain, how all that what one word says, and leaves unsaid, can hold a reader’s interest. . . . Davis grants readers a glimpse of life’s previously invisible details, revealing new sources of philosophical insights and beauty.” In 2013 She was the winner of the Man Booker International prize.
  
  Davis’s recent collection, “Varieties of Disturbance” (May 2007), was featured on the front cover of the “Los Angeles Times Bo

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  Sergio Bizzio

  Sergio Bizzio es narrador, dramaturgo y director de cine. Publicó las novelas El divino convertible (1990), Infierno Albino (1992), Son del África (1993), Más allá del bien y lentamente (1995), Planet (1998), En esa época (2001), Rabia (2004), Era el cielo (2007), el libro de cuentos Chicos (2003), el ensayo en verso El genio argentino (2005), y las colecciones de poemas Gran salón con piano (1982), Mínimo figurado (1990), Paraguay (1995), El abanico matamoscas (2002), y Te desafío a correr como un idiota por el jardín (2008). Escribió las obras de teatro Gravedad (1999), La china (1995, en colaboración con Daniel Guebel), El amor (1995), y la novela El día feliz de Charlie Feiling (2006). Dirigió los largometrajes Animalada (2001), 100 tra

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  Yukio Mishima

  Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima

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  Masako Togawa

  Masako Togawa (戸川昌子) was a Japanese novelist, Chanson singer-songwriter, actress, feminist, LGBTQ+ activist, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist and music educator. She was born in Tokyo, in 1933.
  
  Masako Towaga began writing in 1961, backstage, between her stage appearances, and her first work The Master Key was published a year later, in 1962, for which she was awarded the prestigious Edogawa Rampo Prize. The story is set in the same apartment she grew up in with her mother. Her second novel, The Lady Killer , followed in 1963, becoming a bestseller. It was adapted for both TV and film, and nominated for the Naoki Prize.
  
  She wrote more than thirty novels and was one of the most popular mystery writers in Japan

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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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  László Krasznahorkai

  László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025.
  
  He is probably best known through the oeuvre of the director Béla Tarr, who has collaborated with him on several movies.
  
  Apart from the Nobel Prize, Krasznahorkai has also been honored with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize, and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for his English-translated oeuvre.
  

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  Fumiko Enchi

  See author 円地文子.
  
  Fumiko Enchi was the pen name of the late Japanese Shōwa period playwright and novelist Fumiko Ueda.
  
  The daughter of a linguist, Fumiko learned a lot about French, English, Japanese and Chinese literature through private tutorage.
  
  Fumiko suffered from poor health as a child and spent most of her time at home. She was introduced to literature by her grandmother, who showed her to the likes of The Tale of Genji, as well as to Edo period gesaku novels and to the kabuki and bunraku theater. By 13 years old her reading list had grown to include works of the lights of Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Kyōka Izumi, Nagai Kafū, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. She discovered a special interest in the sadomasochistic aestheticism style of Jun'ichirō T

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  Ono no Komachi

  Ono no Komachi (小野 小町?, c. 825 – c. 900) was a Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the six best waka poets of the early Heian period. She was renowned for her unusual beauty, and Komachi is today a synonym for feminine beauty in Japan.[1] She also counts among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.

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  Seishi Yokomizo

  Seishi Yokomizo (横溝 正史) was a novelist in Shōwa period Japan.
  Yokomizo was born in the city of Kobe, Hyōgo (兵庫県 神戸市). He read detective stories as a boy and in 1921, while employed by the Daiichi Bank, published his first story in the popular magazine "Shin Seinen" (新青年[New Youth]). He graduated from Osaka Pharmaceutical College (currently part of Osaka University) with a degree in pharmacy, and initially intended to take over his family's drug store even though sceptical of the contemporary ahistorical attitude towards drugs. However, drawn by his interest in literature, and the encouragement of Edogawa Rampo (江戸川 乱歩), he went to Tokyo instead, where he was hired by the Hakubunkan publishing company in 1926. After serving as editor in chief

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  Sara Gallardo

  Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre (*Buenos Aires, 23 de diciembre de 1931-†14 de junio de 1988) fue una escritora argentina de la generación de narradoras y poetas de la década del 50-60, durante el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, junto a colegas coterráneas como Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch, Beatriz Guido, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Norah Lange, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elvira Orphée y Silvina Ocampo. Su novela Eisejuaz es un ejemplo del temprano realismo mágico sudamericano.

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  Samantha Harvey

  Samantha Harvey has completed postgraduate courses in philosophy and in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and has lived in Ireland and New Zealand. She recently co-founded an environmental charity and lives in Bath, England.
  
  Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the 2009 Betty Trask Prize.

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  Samanta Schweblin

  Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.

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  Carlos Busqued

  Carlos Busqued nació en Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco (Argentina), en 1970 y falleció el 29 de Marzo de 2021. Produjo los programas de radio Vidas Ejemplares, El otoño en Pekín y Prisionero del Planeta Infierno. Colaboró en la revista El Ojo con Dientes.
  
  Carlos Busqued was born in the northern Argentinian province of Chaco in 1970. He passed away on 29 March 2021. Under This Terrible Sun is his first novel.

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  Dorothee Elmiger

  Dorothee Elmiger is a Swiss writer. She presently lives in Switzerland. Elmiger is considered one of the most promising young Swiss writers, especially after winning the second Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Kelag Prize, in 2010.
  
  After finishing school her primary schooling, Dorothee Elmiger went to New Hampshire before beginning her studies of philosophy and political sciences at the University of Zurich. She received her professional training at the Swiss Institute for Literature in Biel/Bienne and at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where she spent an exchange semester.
  
  In 2008, she competed in Prosanova, a festival for new literature in Hildesheim. In 2009, she was a stipendiary at the literature course in Klagenfurt.

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  Selva Almada

  Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Including her début The Wind that Lays Waste, she has published three novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction (Dead Girls) and a kind of film diary (written in the set of Lucrecia Martel’s most recent film Zama, based on Antonio di Benedetto’s novel). She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of the Tigre Juan Award (both in Spain). Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. Her most recent novel, No es un río (This is not a River) has ju

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  Luciano Lamberti

  Luciano Lamberti holds a bachelor's degree in modern literature from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. He writes for local and national media, works as a high school language teacher, and leads the creative-writing workshop of the Provincial Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Córdoba

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  Yael van der Wouden

  Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. The Safekeep is her debut novel and was acquired in hotly-contested nine-way auctions in both the UK and the US. Rights have sold in a further twelve countries. In 2024 it was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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  Sayaka Murata

  Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
  She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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  Camila Fabbri

  (Buenos Aires, 1989) Es escritora, directora de teatro y actriz. Dirigió las obras Brick, Mi primer hiroshima, Condición de buenos nadadores, En lo alto para siempre y Recital Olímpico (las dos últimas, en colaboración con Eugenia Pérez Tomas). Como actriz, fue nominada a los Premios Cóndor de Plata por su trabajo en la película Dos disparos del director argentino Martín Rejtman. Publicó el libro de cuentos Los accidentes (Emecé-Notanpüan, 2017) y la novela de no ficción El día que apagaron la luz (Seix Barral, 2019), declarada de interés cultural por el gobierno de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Formó parte de la selección “Ochenteros, escritorxs nacidos en los 80” en la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara (2017). Ha sido publicada en España, Méxic

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  Andrés Montero

  Escritor y narrador oral, cofundador de la Compañía La Matrioska. Es autor de "El año en que hablamos con el mar", "La muerte viene estilando", "Taguada" y "Tony Ninguno" y del ensayo "Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI" y de los libros juveniles "Alguien toca la puerta", "Tres noches en la escuela", "En el horizonte se dibuja un barco" y "Bestiario de Chile".
  
  En 2017 obtuvo el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska de la Ciudad de México por la novela Tony Ninguno, y en 2022 recibió el Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Arte, el Premio de la Academia de la Lengua y el Premio Mejores Obras Literarias del Ministerio de las Culturas por La muerte viene estilando.
  
  También ha recibido el Premio Marta Brunet, el Premio Municipal d

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  Lin Yi-Han

  Chinese: 林奕含

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  Michel Nieva

  Michel Nieva estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y actualmente es investigador doctoral y docente en la Universidad de Nueva York.
  
  Publicó el poemario Papelera de reciclaje (2011), las novelas ¿Sueñan los gauchoides con ñandúes eléctricos? (2013), Ascenso y apogeo del Imperio Argentino (2018) y el libro de ensayos Tecnología y barbarie (2020), de próxima aparición en Anagrama. En Anagrama ha publicado La infancia del mundo. Además escribió el guión del videojuego en 8 bits Elige tu propio gauchoide (basado en el universo de sus libros de ciencia ficción).

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  Cho Nam-Joo

  Associated Names:
  * 조남주 (Korean)
  * Cho Nam-Joo (English)
  * 趙南柱 (Chinese)
  * โชนัมจู (Thai)
  * チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)
  
  Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 she drew partly on her own experience as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.
  
  Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is her third novel. It has had a profound impact on gender inequality and discrimination in Korean society, and has been translated into 18 languages.

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  Caroline Wahl

  Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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  Mai Ishizawa

  Mai Ishizawa was born in 1980 in Sendai City, Japan, and currently lives in Germany. Her debut novel, The Place of Shells, won the Akutagawa Prize.
  
  Source: New Directions

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  Sebastián Antezana

  Ha participado en varias antologías bolivianas e internacionales. Es autor de las novelas La toma del manuscrito y El amor según, así como del libro de cuentos Iluminación. Con La toma del manuscrito ganó el X Premio Nacional de Novela de Bolivia. Es candidato doctoral de Estudios Romance en la Universidad de Cornell, Estados Unidos.

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  C.E. Feiling

  Licenciado en Letras en la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, fue profesor de Latín y Lingüística en la URA, de Filosofía en la Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora y en la Universidad de San Andrés, y de Literatura Hispanoamericana en la Universidad de Nottingham (Inglaterra).
  

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  E.H.W. Meyerstein

  Edward Harry William Meyerstein (August 11, 1889 – September 12, 1952) was an English writer and scholar. He wrote poetry and short stories, and a Life Of Thomas Chatterton.
  
  Meyerstein was born in Hampstead (then still in Middlesex). His father was a merchant and stockbroker who was generous benefactor to the Royal Free Hospital and who became High Sheriff of Kent, being knighted in 1938.
  Meyerstein was educated at Holly Hill Hampstead, and then went to board at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne. At St Cyprian's, he met the future painter Cedric Morris, started collecting manuscripts from local bookshops and won the Harrow History Prize. With this under his belt, his mother then sent him to Harrow. Brought up as a Protestant, he was baptised b

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  Eduardo Lalo

  Puerto Rican author and artist.

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