Yasushi Inoue
Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.
Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life — Japan of the early to mid twentieth century — in revealing perspective.
1936 Chiba Kameo Prize --- Ruten,流転
1950 Akutagawa Prize --- Tōgyu,闘牛
1957 Ministry of Education Prize for Literature --- The Roof Tile of Tempyo,天平の甍
1959 Mainichi Press Prize --- Tun-huang,敦煌
1963 Yomiuri Prize --- Fū
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Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần (1972) quê ở Tân Thiện - Hàm Tân, Bình Thuận, là một nhà văn trẻ đầy triển vọng ở thể loại văn xuôi đương đại, là thành viên của Hội nhà văn Việt Nam.
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Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần tốt nghiệp ĐH Mỹ thuật TP. HCM, sau khi ra trường anh đầu quân cho Báo Tuổi trẻ. Thế nhưng cơ duyên đã đưa anh họa sĩ trẻ tiếp cận văn chương và "cái tôi" nhà văn đã lấn lướt "cái tôi" họa sĩ. Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần bước lên đỉnh cao thành công của văn chương, với hàng loạt các giải thưởng như: Giăng giăng tơ nhện (giải thưởng Văn học tuổi hai mươi lần II); Vừa nhắm mắt vừa mở cửa sổ, NXB Trẻ 2000, giải nhất cuộc thi Văn học Thiếu nhi lần III, giải Peter Pan (giải thưởng của Thụy Điển dành cho tác phẩm thiếu nhi hay nhất; Một thiên nằm mộng - giải A cuộc vận động -
Eiji Yoshikawa
Pen-name of Yoshikawa Hidetsugu. Yoshikawa is well-known for his work as a Japanese historical fiction novelist, and a number of re-makes have been spawned off his work.
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In 1960, he received the Order of Cultural Merit.
Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治, August 11, 1892 – September 7, 1962) was a Japanese historical novelist. Among his best-known novels, most are revisions of older classics. He was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Outlaws of the Marsh, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many of which he retold in his own style. As an example, the original manuscript of Taiko is 15 volumes; Yoshikawa took up to retell it in a more accessible tone, and reduced it to only two volumes. His other books also serve sim -
Cristina De Stefano
Dopo aver intrapreso la carriera di giornalista a Elle, a cui ancora collabora, si è trasferita a Parigi dove svolge la professione di scout letterario. Si deve a lei, tra l'altro, la pubblicazione in Italia di La verità sul caso Harry Quebert, best seller da centinaia di migliaia di libri venduti. La sua attività di scrittrice inizia nel 2002, con la pubblicazione di "Belinda e il mostro. Vita segreta di Cristina Campo", biografia della poetessa Cristina Campo. Seguono altri volumi biografici, tra cui di particolare rilievo la prima biografia completa di Oriana Fallaci, pubblicata nel 2013.
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Veronica De Simone
Classe 1994, nata nella città più nebbiosa d'Italia, fin da piccola ha sempre desiderato cavalcare un drago. Con tempo si è resa conto che, se avesse voluto realizzare il suo sogno, avrebbe dovuto crearlo, il drago. Così, non appena terminate le superiori, si è iscritta alla facoltà di scienze biologiche, dove passa circa il 75% delle sue giornate. Nel tempo libero ama fare passeggiate, girare per musei, viaggiare e, quando la vita diventa troppo grigia anche per lei, accoccolarsi sotto le coperte in compagnia di un buon libro.
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Fumiko Hayashi
Fumiko Hayashi (林 芙美子), December 31, 1903 or 1904 (Japanese sources disagree on the birth year) - June 28, 1951) was a Japanese novelist and poet.
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When Hayashi was seven, her mother ran away with a manager of her common-law husband's store, and afterwards the three worked in Kyūshū as itinerant merchants. After graduating from high school in 1922, Hayashi moved to Tokyo with a lover and lived with several men until settling into marriage with the painter Rokubin Tezuka (手塚 緑敏?) in 1926.
Many of her works revolve around themes of free spirited women and troubled relationships. One of her best-known works is Hōrōki (translated into English as "Vagabond's Song" or "Vagabond's Diary") (放浪記, 1927), which was adapted into the anime Wandering Days. -
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang is the English name for Chinese author 張愛玲, who was born to a prominent family in Shanghai (one of her great-grandfathers was Li Hongzhang) in 1920.
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She went to a prestigious girls' school in Shanghai, where she changed her name from Chang Ying to Chang Ai-ling to match her English name, Eileen. Afterwards, she attended the University of Hong Kong, but had to go back to Shanghai when Hong Kong fell to Japan during WWII. While in Shanghai, she was briefly married to Hu Lancheng, the notorious Japanese collaborator, but later got a divorce.
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1947. The name “Yourcenar” is an imperfect anagram of her original name, “Crayencour.”
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Sacha Guitry
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Maximiliano Barrientos
Maximiliano Barrientos nació en Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, en 1979. Es uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más relevantes de su generación. Sus artículos sobre literatura, música y cine, así como algunas de sus crónicas, han aparecido en las principales revistas y suplementos culturales de Bolivia. En 2009, su libro de relatos Diario (2009) recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Santa Cruz. Sus dos primeros libros, Los daños (2006) y Hoteles (2007), fueron revisados, corregidos y transformados para convertirse en los volúmenes Fotos tuyas cuando empiezas a envejecer y Hoteles, publicados por Periférica en 2011 con gran éxito de crítica y en vías de traducción a diversas lenguas.
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Alexandre Dumas
This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
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Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Dashiell Hammett
Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett
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Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934).
Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) among the enduring characters. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."
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Pen-name of Yoshikawa Hidetsugu. Yoshikawa is well-known for his work as a Japanese historical fiction novelist, and a number of re-makes have been spawned off his work.
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In 1960, he received the Order of Cultural Merit.
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Teru Miyamoto
Teru Miyamoto (宮本 輝), born Masahito Miyamoto (宮本 正仁), is a Japanese author. He graduated from Otemon Gakuin University with a degree in literature in 1970.
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1977 Dazai Osamu Prize for Mud River (Doro no Kawa)
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Narine Abgaryan
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
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Gamon Sakurai
Also known as 桜井画門.
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Gamon Sakurai is a Japanese comic book artist from Tokyo. Born in 1986, Sakurai was selected for the Afternoon Magazine Four Seasons Award for New Comic Artists. Upon being selected for the award his short story was published and he was selected for editorial review by manga publishing giant Kodansha. Sakurai would make his publishing debut with indie publisher Issuisha in 2010, releasing a short story anthology. He would then work with Kodansha to work on his first feature length series AJIN: Demi-human in 2012. -
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Gabi Nam
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Rito Kohsaka
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Thâm Tâm
Ông tên thật là Nguyễn Tuấn Trình, sinh ngày 12 tháng 5 năm 1917 tại thị xã Hải Dương (nay là thành phố Hải Dương), tỉnh Hải Dương.
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Xuất thân trong một nhà giáo nền nếp, thuở nhỏ, từ năm 1938, ông học tiểu học ở Hà Nội, từng vẽ tranh để kiếm sống. Từ những năm 1940, ông tham gia viết báo, viết văn và thường được đăng tải trên Tiểu thuyết thứ bảy, Ngày nay, Tiểu thuyết thứ năm và Truyền bá quốc ngữ... Ông từng thử sức trên nhiều thể loại nhưng thành công hơn cả vẫn là thơ. Thơ Thâm Tâm có nhiều giọng điệu, khi buồn da diết, khi trầm hùng, bi tráng, khi reo vui...
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Gilles Lipovetsky
Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944 in Millau) is a French philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble.
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Lipovetsky began his philosophical career as a Marxist, similar to many others in the 1960s. Lipovetsky’s work focuses on the modern world from the latter 20th century to the present. He has divided this time period into three periods: “Marxist self criticism” (1965-1983), post-modern (1983-1991) and the hyper modern period from 1991 on. Lipovetsky has continued to write on topics such as modernity, globalization, consumerism, modern culture, markets, feminism, fashion, and media, but they have the common thread of individualism -
Tamiki Hara
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Misumi Kubo
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Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin, whose real name was Hilde Palm (née Löwenstein), was a German lyric poet and writer. She was amongst the most important German-language poets of her time.
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She later described her life as a “linguistic odyssey,” a journey from one language to the next. But her native German remained her constant home throughout the years of exile. Raised in a Jewish family in Köln (Cologne), Hilde Löwenstein first studied law, then philosophy and political science in Heidelberg, Köln and Berlin. Because of her Jewish background and her socialist involvement she decided at 23 to leave Germany at the end of 1932 and continue her studies in Italy. In 1935 she received her doctorate in Florence in political science; in 1936 she married her fellow stu -
Harumi Setouchi
Birth name Harumi Setouchi (瀬戸内 晴美).
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After taking the tonsure in a Buddhist order, now known as Jakucho Setouchi (瀬戸内 寂聴).
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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an award-winning author and editor of over twenty books. She has written three novels: WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT, MAGDALENA, and THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW. Her SELECTED SHORT STORIES BY CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD won the 40th National Book Award and the Cirilo F. Bautista Prize.
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She has taught at UCLA, USC, the California State Summer School for the Arts, and the Writers Program at USCL Extension. She has served as an Executive Board Member and Officer of PEN, PAAWWW (Pacific Asian American Women Writers West), Arts & Letters at the Cal State University LA, PAWWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists), among others.
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Oh Jung-hee
Oh Jung-Hee (born November 9, 1947) (Hangul: 오정희) is a South Korean writer.
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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.
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Shimei Futabatei
Futabatei Shimei (二葉亭 四迷) was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic. Born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke (長谷川 辰之助) in Edo (now Tokyo), Futabatei's works are in the realist style popular in the mid- to late-19th century. His work Ukigumo (Floating Clouds, 1887) is widely hailed as Japan's first modern novel.
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Mario Soldati
Nato a Torino nel 1906, spentosi a Tellaro (La Spezia) nel 1999, studia in un collegio di gesuiti e si laurea in lettere nella città natale con una tesi di storia dell’arte. Esordisce nella scrittura con la commedia “Pilato” (1924), ma s’impone all’ attenzione della critica soltanto con i racconti di “Salmace” (1929): non mancano, tuttavia, riserve da parte di prestigiosi recensori - quali Giuseppe A. Borgese ed Eugenio Montale - sui temi affrontati in almeno un paio di occasioni (la novella che dà il titolo alla raccolta e “Scenario”, ambedue di argomento omosessuale). Nel 1929, su invito di Prezzolini, si reca a New York, ove resta sino al ‘31; dal suo soggiorno come insegnante alla Columbia University nasce “America primo amore” (1935),
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Li He
Li He (c. 790–791 – c. 816–817) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Changji, and he is also known as Guicai and Shigui.
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He was a native of Fuchang County (west of modern-day Yiyang County, Henan Province). His family were of distant royal descent (from the Li family who were the ruling dynastic family of the Tang Dynasty), but his branch's fortunes had declined early on, and by Li He's time they were of low rank.
He started composing poetry at the age of 7, and by around 15 he was being compared to the yuefu master Li Yi. When Li was 20, he attempted to take the Imperial Examination, but was forbidden from doing so because of a naming taboo: the first character (晉 jin) of his father's given name (晉肅 Jinsu) was a