Yōko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.
Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.
Tawada's Missing Heels received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991, and The Bridegroom Was a Dog r
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Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys is the author of five books of poetry, eleven novels, and three works of non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Her first novel, Leaving Earth (1997), won the 1998 City of Toronto Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her second novel, Afterimage (2000), won the 2000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her third novel, The Lost Garden (2002), was a 2003 Canada Reads selection, a national bestseller, and was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Wild Dogs (2004) won the 2005 Lambda Prize for fiction, has been optioned for film, an -
Jeon Sungtae
전성태 (Jeon Sungtae) was born in 1969 in South Korea. He studied creative writing at Chung-Ang University and started his career in 1994 by winning the Silcheonmunhak New Writer’s Award. His published works include the short-story collections Second Self-Portrait (2015), Wolves (2009), Over The Border (2004), and Burying Incense (1999); the novel The Female Barber (2005); and the book of essays Big Brothers of the World (2015).
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Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon’s writing has received great acclaim in his native France; his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work, and the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française. His works include Masters and Sons, The Origin of the World, and Rimbaud's Son.
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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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Peter Handke
Peter Handke (* 6. Dezember 1942 in Griffen, Kärnten) ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer.
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Peter Handke is an Avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. He has also collaborated with German director Wim Wenders, writing the script for The Wrong Move and co-writing the screenplay for Wings of Desire. -
Katai Tayama
Tayama Katai was a Japanese author. His most famous works include Rural Teacher (田舎教師) and Futon (蒲団). He is noted for writing naturalistic I novels which revolve around the author. His writings are considered pseudo-autobiographical. He wrote about his experiences in the Russo-Japanese war.
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Chris Marker
Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
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He is best known for directing La Jetée (1962), as well as Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. -
Mark J. Ravina
Dr. Mark J. Ravina is Professor of History at Emory University, where he has taught since 1991. He received his A.B. from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has been a visiting professor at Kyoto University’s Institute for Research in Humanities and a research fellow at Keio University and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. He has also received research grants from the Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the Association for Asian Studies.
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Professor Ravina has published extensively in early modern Japanese history, with a particular focus on the transnational and international aspects of political change. He has also published research on Japanes -
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007) was an American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
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Though she published little, Olsen was very influential for her treatment of the lives of women and the poor. She drew attention to why women have been less likely to be published authors (and why they receive less attention than male authors when they do publish). Her work received recognition in the years of much feminist political and social activity. It contributed to new possibilities for women writers. Olsen's influence on American feminist fiction has caused some critics to be frustrated at simplistic feminist interpretations of her work. In particular, sever -
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Macarena Gómez-Barris is Chair of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute, author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, and coeditor of Toward a Sociology of the Trace.
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Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France and the Arab world. Described as “a Renaissance figure,” Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Kumunyakaa writes, “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders.” Her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía, which Alice Walker lauds as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve,” and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, which The New York Times says is “a book that trembles with belonging (and longing).” Handal is the editor of the groundbreaking classic The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, winner of the PEN Oakland Josep
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John Stewart Collis
John Stewart Collis (1900–1984), author best known for The Worm Forgives The Plough his account of his experiences working on farms during the Second World War.
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Pauline Kaldas
Pauline Kaldas is an Egyptian-American novelist, scholar and professor.
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She was born in Egypt and immigrated with her parents to the United States at the age of eight in 1969. She spent her first eight years in the Cairo suburb of Mohandessein with her parents, grandmother, and aunt. When her family immigrated, they settled in the Boston area.
She attended Clark University in Worcester, MA, where she majored in English and Business. She went on to receive her M.A. in English at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University.
After receiving her M.A., she moved to Providence, RI, where she taught at Rhode Island College and Rhode Island School of Design. In 1990, she went to Egypt with her h -
Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr is an Aspen Words Finalist and two time Wonderland Book Award winner.
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His books include OPIOID, INDIANA, MOTHERFUCKING SHARKS and several others.
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Toshiyuki Horie
Toshiyuki Horie (堀江 敏幸 Horie Toshiyuki, born January 3, 1964) is a Japanese author and translator.
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Horie was born in Gifu Prefecture, and studied at Waseda University, where he now is a professor of creative writing. He studied for three years at the University of Paris III on a French government scholarship.
Horie, who is also a member of many literary prize selection committees, is a critic and translator of authors including Michel Foucault, Hervé Guibert, Michel Rio, and Jacques Réda.
His books have been translated into French and Korean.
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Kōgai e (郊外へ, "To the Suburbs"), 1995
Shigosen wo motomete (子午線を求めて, "In Search of the Meridian"), 2000
Kakareru te (書かれる手, "The Hand Which is Written"), 2000
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Kang Young-sook
Kang Young-sook (Hangul: 강영숙; born November 10, 1967) is a South Korean novelist.
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Kang Young-sook was born in 1967 in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province in South Korea and spent most of her childhood there. She was student athlete for volleyball, long jump, and other sports, before she moved to Seoul when she was 14. She majored creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She was the editor in chief of the Seoul Institute of the Arts journal and in 1998 made her literary debut with the short story "A Meal in August" through the annual spring literary competition sponsored by the Seoul Shinmun. Her published debut was the short story collection ['Shaken'] in (2002) and she has also published "Every Day is a Celebration" (2004) and "Black in -
Phyllis Birnbaum
Phyllis Birnbaum is a novelist, biographer, journalist, and translator from the Japanese. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. She lives near Boston.
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Arno Van Vlierberghe
Arno Van Vlierberghe (1990) is dichter. Hij woont, werkt en leeft in Gent. In 2017 verscheen zijn debuutbundel Vloekschrift, die werd genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs. In 2022 verscheen de tweede bundel, Ex Daemon, die werd genomineerd voor de J.C. Bloemprijs. Momenteel werkt hij aan pornoverhalen.
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Robin Kramer
Robin Kramer (1990) is schrijver. Zijn korte verhalen verschenen onder andere in De Revisor, Tirade, Papieren Helden en Kluger Hans. Hij schreef over film en beeldende kunst voor rekto:verso, HART Magazine en Humbug Magazine. Voor Museumtijdschrift maakt hij de podcast De aanwinst, in samenwerking met Vereniging Rembrandt. Achtertuinen is zijn literaire debuut. Voor de fameuze Kleurenreeks van Oevers werkt hij aan Karmozijn. Robin woont en werkt in Zwolle.
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Robin Kramer (1990) is a writer. His short stories have appeared in De Revisor, Tirade, Papieren Helden, and Kluger Hans. He has written about film and visual arts for rekto:verso, HART Magazine, and Humbug Magazine. For Museumtijdschrift, he creates the podcast De aanwinst, in collaborati -
Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland is a British writer of Jamaican and Bajan heritage.
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Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol lives in Istanbul and is a columnist for the Turkish newspapers Hürriyet Daily News and Star. He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and Newsweek.
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Amy Stanley
Amy Stanley is a professor in the History Department at Northwestern University. She can often be found lecturing about global history, but she is most at home in early modern Japan, specifically in the great city of Edo (now Tokyo). Like many social historians, she is happiest when reading other people's correspondence and perusing shopping lists from 200 years ago. She knows a lot about samurai, and she can tell you all about the condition of the toilets in Edo Castle, but you probably don't want to know. When she's not dwelling in the nineteenth century, she is in Evanston, IL, with her husband, two little boys, and a mutt who may actually be a Catahoula Leopard Dog.
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Kristin Tenor
Kristin Tenor is a writer and editor who finds inspiration in life’s quiet details and believes in their power to illuminate the extraordinary. She is the author of the flash fiction chapbook, THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN, which won Thirty West Publishing House’s 8th Wavelengths Chapbook Contest guest judged by Shome Dasgupta. Her fiction has appeared in Best Microfiction 2024, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y, Emerge Literary Journal, 100 Word Story, and various other literary journals and anthologies. Kristin’s work also has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize as well as longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. She currently serves as a contributing editor at Story.
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Tabitha Lasley
Tabitha Lasley was a journalist for ten years. She has lived in London, Johannesburg, and Aberdeen. SEA STATE is her first book.
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Yun Dong-ju
Born and raised in northern Manchuria during the colonial period of Korea, Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. His posthumously published collection of poems under the title Sky, wind, stars, and poems is one of the all-time favorites of Korean readers. Wishing not to have so much as a speck of shame toward heaven until the day I die, I suffered, even when the wind stirred the leaves. (From Foreword) In simple diction and straightforward expressions, his poems sing of his love for his people, his compassion for the poor and destitute, and his hopes for freedom and independence. These themes still resonate deep within the hearts of the Korean people. His imprisonment and eventual death in 1945 in a Japanese pr
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Ana Rüsche
Olá! Muito prazer :)
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Adoro ler ficção científica, fantasia, poesia, dá para deduzir por minhas estantes.
Sou escritora, meu último trabalho é "A desconexão telepática e seus abalos sísmicos" publicado na revista seriada Mafagafo #2.2 e a novela Do Amor: o dia em que Rimbaud decidiu vender armas, edição caprichadíssima pela Editora Quelônio (2018). Ainda em prosa, publiquei o romance "Acordados" (2007).
Publiquei também 4 livros de poesia - meu primogênito recebeu tradução e publicação no México, Rasgada; o segundo foi republicado recentemente pela Editora Patuá, Sarabanda, o terceiro, Nós que adoramos um documentário recebeu o apoio do Proac, Gov. do Estado de São Paulo; o quarto eu mesma publiquei e fiz uma grande festa, o Furiosa, que -
MA|DE
MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, a unity of two voices fused into a single, poetic third. It is the name given to the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace — artists whose active solo practices, while differing radically, serve to complement one another. MA|DE's writing has appeared in literary journals including The Ex-Puritan, Augur, and PRISM International, and 4 chapbooks, including the bpNichol Award-shortlisted A Trip to the ZZOO from Collusion Books. MA|DE's debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO (released with 5 variant animal-themed covers), is out now from Palimpsest Press and their follow-up, Detourism, is forthcoming in 2028. More info — ma-de.ca
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Teresa Colom
Teresa Colom i Pich (la Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, 12 de desembre del 1973) és una poeta i escriptora andorrana d'origen urgellenc. Llicenciada en Ciències Econòmiques per la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, va dirigir la seva carrera professional cap al camp de les finances. El 2004 va deixar la feina de gestora de patrimonis i fons d'inversió a l'entitat bancària on havia estat treballant des del 1995 per dedicar-se a escriure. Va formar part del grup Donzelles de l'any 2000. Ha estat articulista al Diari d'Andorra.
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Sakyo Komatsu
Born Minoru "Sakyo" Komatsu in Osaka, he was a graduate of Kyoto University where he studied Italian literature. After graduating, he worked at various jobs, including as a magazine reporter and a writer for stand-up comedy acts.
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Komatsu's writing career began in the 1960s. Reading Kōbō Abe and Italian classics made Komatsu feel modern literature and science fiction are the same.
In 1961, he entered a science-fiction writing competition: "Peace on Earth" was a story in which World War II does not end in 1945 and a young man prepares to defend Japan against the Allied invasion. Komatsu received an honourable mention and 5000 yen.
He won the same competition the following year with the story, "Memoirs of an Eccentric Time Traveller". His first -
Angela Pneuman
Angela Pneuman teaches fiction writing in the Continuing Studies program at Stanford University and works as a copywriter in the California wine industry. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories (2012 & 2004), Ploughshares, Los Angeles Review, Iowa Review, Glimmertrain and many other literary magazines—and were collected in her first book, Home Remedies (Harcourt, 2007). Angela was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a Presidential Fellow at SUNY Albany, and the recipient of the inaugural Alice Hoffman Prize for short fiction from Ploughshares. Her novel Lay It on My Heart is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for Fall of 2014.
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Akiko Hashimoto
Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Sergio Chejfec
Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.
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Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot wi -
Võ Phiến
Võ Phiến tên thật Đoàn Thế Nhơn là một nhà văn Việt Nam. Ông là tác giả của 4 tiểu thuyết, 9 tập tuỳ bút, nhiều tập truyện ngắn, một tập thơ và nhiều tác phẩm phê bình tiểu luận. Ông còn có bút danh là Tràng Thiên.
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Tiểu sử
Võ Phiến là con của ông giáo Đoàn Thế Cần và bà Ngô Thị Cương. Ông có người em ruột là Đoàn Thế Hối (sinh 1932) cũng là nhà văn với bút hiệu Lê Vĩnh Hoà.
Khoảng 1933, bố mẹ cùng em ông xuống Rạch Giá còn ông vẫn ở lại Bình Định với bà nội. Ông theo học trường làng và trung học ở Quy Nhơn.
Năm 1942, ông ra Huế học trường Thuận Hóa và bắt đầu viết văn. Bài tùy bút đầu tiên Những đêm đông được ông viết năm 1943 và đăng trên báo Trung Bắc Chủ Nhật.
Năm 1945, Võ Phiến đi bộ đội cho đến năm 1946 thì ông ra Hà Nội học trường Văn La -
Ch'ae Man-Sik
Ch'ae Man-Sik’s literary debut came in 1924 with the publication in Joseon Literary World (Joseon mundan) of the short story “Toward the Three Paths” (Segillo). His early stories and plays were written from a class-sensitive perspective, and with the publication in 1932 of “Ready-made Life” (Ledi maeideu insaeng), he began to focus his attention on the plight of intellectuals in an era of colonial oppression, a subject matter he continued to pursue in such works as “An Intellectual and Mung-bean Cake” (Interi wa bindaetteok) and “My Idiot Uncle” (Chisuk, 1938). Arrested by the colonial government in 1938 for his affiliations with Society for Reading (Dokseohoe), Chae was released on the condition that he participates in the pro-Japanese lit
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