Yu Hua
Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.
Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Liv
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Patañjali
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Su Tong
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He entered the Department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and started to publish novels in 1983. He is now vice president of the Jiangsu Writers Association. Known for his controversial writing style, Su is one of the most acclaimed novelists in China.
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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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Mo Yan
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Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
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Jiang Rong
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Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke (simplified Chinese: 阎连科; traditional Chinese: 閻連科; pinyin: Yán Liánkē; Wade–Giles: Yen Lien-k'e, born 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned.
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He started writing in 1978 and his works include: Xia Riluo (夏日落), Serve the People (为人民服务), Enjoyment (受活), and Dream of Ding Village (丁庄梦). He has also published more than ten volumes of short stories. Enjoyment, which was published in 2004, received wide acclaim in China. His literature has been published in various nations, and some of his works have been banned in China.
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Leslie T. Chang
Leslie T. Chang lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, specializing in stories that explored how socioeconomic change is transforming institutions and individuals. She has also written for National Geographic. Factory Girls is her first book.
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A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in American History and Literature, Chang has also worked as a journalist in the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She was raised outside New York City by immigrant parents who forced her to attend Saturday-morning Chinese school, for which she is now grateful.
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Ma Boyong
Associated Names:
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* Ma Boyong (English)
* 马伯庸 / 馬伯庸 (Chinese)
* หม่าป๋อยง (Thai)
* Mã Bá Dung (Vietnamese)
* Ма Боюн (Russian)
马伯庸（1980年11月14日－），本名马力，朋友惯称“小白”，赤峰人，中国大陸作家，曾就职于施耐德电气（中国）投资有限公司，人稱「網路鬼才」、马亲王、亲王。作品涵蓋歷史、科幻、影視評論等諸多領域。
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Melisa Kesmez
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.
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Zülfü Livaneli
Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.
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Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.
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Evan Osnos
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Hao Jingfang
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Hao Jingfang was born in 1984, graduated in physics and gained her PhD in economics at Tsinghua University in 2013. She has been working since with the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), where she acts as Deputy Director of Research Department I.
She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.
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Robert C. Solomon
Robert C. Solomon (September 14, 1942 – January 2, 2007) was a professor of continental philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Early life
Solomon was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a lawyer, and his mother an artist. After earning a B.A. (1963) at the University of Pennsylvania, he moved to the University of Michigan to study medicine, switching to philosophy for an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1967).
He held several teaching positions at such schools as Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Pittsburgh. From 1972 until his death, except for two years at the University of California at Riverside in the mid-1980s, he taught at University of Texas at Austin, serving as Quincy Lee Cen -
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ was a Turkish archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist, writer and supercentenarian who specialised in the study of Hittites and Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received worldwide media coverage in 2006 with her assertion, outlined in her book from the previous year, that the headscarf worn by Muslim women did not originate in the Muslim world, but was purportedly worn five thousand years earlier by Sumerian priestesses as a means of initiating young men into sex.
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Jane Harris
There is more than one author with this name in the GR database
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Jane Harris was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and raised in Glasgow. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and she has written several award-winning short films. In 2000, she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England.
She started writing by accident while living in Portugal in the early Nineties. She says, "I had no TV, hardly any books, no money. And so, just to amuse myself, I started writing a short story. It was about an ex-boyfriend who happened to be a transvestite. I had such a great time writing that story that I immediately wrote another one, about another ex-boyfriend; all my early stories were about ex-bo -
Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke (simplified Chinese: 阎连科; traditional Chinese: 閻連科; pinyin: Yán Liánkē; Wade–Giles: Yen Lien-k'e, born 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned.
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He started writing in 1978 and his works include: Xia Riluo (夏日落), Serve the People (为人民服务), Enjoyment (受活), and Dream of Ding Village (丁庄梦). He has also published more than ten volumes of short stories. Enjoyment, which was published in 2004, received wide acclaim in China. His literature has been published in various nations, and some of his works have been banned in China.
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Nguyễn Huy Thiệp
Nguyễn Huy Thiệp sinh năm 1950, quê huyện Thanh Trì, thành phố Hà Nội. Thuở nhỏ ông cùng gia đình lưu lạc khắp nông thôn đồng bằng Bắc Bộ, từ Thái Nguyên qua Phú Thọ, Vĩnh Phúc.
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Năm 1960, gia đình chuyển về quê, định cư ở xóm Cò, làng Khương Hạ (nay là phường Khương Đình, quận Thanh Xuân), Hà Nội. Năm 1970, ông tốt nghiệp khoa sử Trường Đại học Sư phạm Hà Nội và theo ông bị đưa về làng dạy học tại Tây Bắc đến năm 1980, vì bố ông có làm việc với Pháp, cho nên lý lịch ông vì vậy bị xếp vào loại "không sạch”.[1] Năm 1980, ông chuyển về làm việc tại Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo, sau đó, làm việc tại Công ty Kỹ thuật trắc địa bản đồ, Cục Bản đồ cho đến khi về hưu.
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Leo F. Buscaglia
known as "Dr. Love"
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Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia Ph.D. was a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. He was a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles).
Leo Buscaglia authored a number of New York Times bestselling inspirational books on love and human reticences on the subject, including The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Bus 9 to Paradise, Living Loving and Learning, Love and My Father. In lectures he often protested, in outrage at the comparative absence of writings on the subject, "I got the copyright for love!!!" -
Lu Xun
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Escritor de origem cubana, Guillermo Cabrera Infante nasceu a 22 de Abril de 1929, em Gibara, Cuba, e faleceu a 22 de Fevereiro de 2005, em Londres, Inglaterra.
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Filho de pais directamente ligados à política - fundadores, em Gibera, do Partido Comunista - desde cedo se viu confrontado com um forte ambiente de consciência política. Motivado pela profissão dos pais, Cabrera Infante viu-se forçado a mudar para Havana em 1941.
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Patricia Engel
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Epictetus
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Serkan Karaismailoğlu
Lisans eğitimini 2005 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Biyoloji bölümünde tamamladı. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Fizyoloji Anabilim dalından yüksek lisans derecesini 2009 yılında, doktora derecesini ise 2014 yılında almış olup halen aynı yerde çalışmaktadır. Sinirbilim alanında, beyin cinsiyeti (kadın beyni – erkek beyni) başta olmak üzere çeşitli konularda çalışmalarına devam etmektedir. 2009 yılında ulusal fizyoloji kongresinde en iyi genç araştırmacı ödülünü almıştır. Akademik alanda bir tane uluslararası kitap bölümü olmak üzere çeşitli ulusal ve uluslararası dergilerde makaleleri bulunmaktadır. Cinsiyetler arasındaki beyin farklılıklarının neden olduğu ve günlük hayatımıza yansıyan değişik bakış açılarının altında yatan sinirbil
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Fahri Erdinç
1917'de (1 Ocak) Akhisar'da doğdu. Babası, Ankara kökenli Çandıroğulları ailesinden, öğretmen Halil Yaşar'dı. Annesi, Erdinç'i dünyaya getirdikten bir yıl sonra veremden öldü. Sonradan, bu kaybın, anasızlığın bilincine varmak, üvey analı kalabalık bir aile ortamında büyümek, çocukluk uykularının çoğunu alan tütüncülük çilesi ve giderek bir yıl da tenekeci çıraklığı, ilkokul öğrencisi Erdinç'i vaktinden önce olgunlaştırdı ve yaşamı daha yakından tanımasına yol açtı.
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1930'da Balıkesir Öğretmen Okuluna girdi. 1936-37 ders- yılında Afyon'un Sandıklı ilçesinin Ürküt köyünde öğretmenli-ğe başladı. Buradaki üç çalışma yılı, mesleksel uğraşların dışında, köyü kasıp kavuran bir gerici hocayla savaşım içinde geçti.
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Ayşegül Devecioğlu
1956 doğumlu. İstanbul'da yaşıyor. 1977 yılında Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi'nden öğrenimini tamamlayamadan ayrıldı. 1986'dan sonra gazete, dergi ve televizyonlarda çalıştı. Çeşitli dergilerde makaleleri, denemeleri yayımlandı. Ağlayan Dağ Susan Nehir, 2008 Orhan Kemal Roman Armağanı'nı kazandı.
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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a novelist and literary critic at the Bonapartist paper Le Pays who was influential among fin-de-siècle decadents.
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Wumen Huikai
Wumen Huikai (simplified Chinese: 无门慧开; traditional Chinese: 無門慧開; pinyin: Wúmén Huìkāi; Wade-Giles: Wu-men Hui-k'ai; Japanese: Mumon Ekai) (1183–1260) is a Song period Chán (Japanese: Zen) master most famous as the compiler of and commentator on the 48-koan collection The Gateless Gate (Japanese: Mumonkan). Wumen was at that time the head monk of Longxiang (Wade-Giles: Lung-hsiang; Japanese: Ryusho) monastery.
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Wumen was born in Hangzhou and his first master was Gong Heshang. However, it was Zen master Yuelin Shiguan (月林師觀; Japanese: Gatsurin Shikan) (1143–1217) who gave Wumen the koan "Zhaozhou’s dog", with which Wu-men struggled for six years before he finally attained realization. After his understanding had been confirmed by Yuelin, Wume -
Wajdi Mouawad
Né au Liban le 16 octobre 1968, Wajdi Mouawad est contraint d’abandonner sa terre natale à l’âge de huit ans, pour cause de guerre civile. Débute une période d’exil qui le conduit d’abord avec sa famille à Paris. Une patrie d’adoption qu’il doit à son tour quitter en 1983, l’État lui refusant les papiers nécessaires à son maintien sur le territoire. De l’Hexagone, il rejoint alors le Québec.
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C’est là qu’il fait ses études et obtient en 1991 le diplôme en interprétation de l’École nationale de théâtre du Canada à Montréal. Il codirige aussitôt avec la comédienne Isabelle Leblanc sa première compagnie, Théâtre Ô Parleur.
En 2000, il est sollicité pour prendre la direction artistique du Théâtre de Quat’Sous à Montréal pendant quatre saisons.
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Abdulla Qodiriy
عبد الله قادري Абдулла Кадыри
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was an Uzbek and Soviet playwright, poet, writer, and literary translator. Qodiriy was one of the most influential Uzbek writers of the 20th century. He introduced realism into Uzbek literature through his historical novels and influenced many other Central Asian novelists, including the Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov. -
Chingiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чингиз Айтматов, Tschingis Aitmatow, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Tšõngõz Ajtmatov, Cengiz Aytmatov, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov, جنكيز ايتماتوف) was an author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan literature.
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Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyzstan people did at the time. In 1937 his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938.
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O'tkir Hoshimov
Utkir Khashimov was a Soviet-Uzbek writer. His childhood passed in difficult conditions of war and famine, despite having good performance, he had to work from an early age to help his family. While studying at the Faculty of Journalism of Tashkent State University, he also worked in Tashkent, Zheleznodorozhniki. After the University, he worked in the newspaper Evening Tashkent, he soon became the head of the department. In 1982-1985, he was deputy chief editor of Gulyam. Since 1985 worked as the editor-in-chief of the magazine Utkir Khashimov was also a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, chairman of the Committee of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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Yasmin Khan
Yasmin Khan is a best-selling and award-winning author, broadcaster and campaigner, who is passionate about sharing people’s stories through food.
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Her work sits on the intersection of food, travel and politics and her critically-acclaimed books, The Saffron Tales and Zaitoun, use everyday stories to human connection to challenge stereotypes of the Middle East.
Yasmin has worked as a presenter for BBC R4’s Food Programme and CNN’s Perfect Dish series. She is a regular media commentator, appearing on flagship programmes such as Newsnight, the Today programme and Women’s Hour, and writes for a variety of publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, the New Statesmen, Saveur, Afar, Food52 and Roads and Kingdoms. Prior to her writing career -
Keigo Higashino
Associated Names:
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* 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.
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Ba Jin
Ba Jin (巴金) took this pen name from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin.
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Feride Çiçekoğlu
Feride Çiçekoğlu, 1951 yılında Ankara'da doğdu. Maarif Koleji ve Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'nde okudu. Mimar olarak Fullbright bursu ile, Pennsylvania Üniversitesi'nde doktora tezini yazdı. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapan Çiçekoğlu, 12 Eylül askeri darbesinin ardından dört yıl cezaevinde kaldı. Cezaevinde tanıdığı bir çocuğun yaşamını anlattığı ilk kitabı (Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar), filme alındı. Filmin çok beğenilmesi yeni kitapları yazmasına ve yeni filmlerin yolunu açtı. 1990 yılında senaryosunu yazdığı "Reise der Hoffnung (Umuda Yolculuk) filmi Yabancı Dilde En İyi Film Akademi Ödülü'nü kazandı.
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Filmleri - Senaryo
■2009 Altın Kızlar
■2007 Parmaklıklar Ardında
■2000 Melekler Evi
■1996 Altın Kent İstanbul
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Carlos María Domínguez
Carlos María Domínguez was born in Buenos Aires in 1955 and has lived in Montevideo, Uruguay since 1989.
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He is the author of Mares Baldíos, a collection of short stories, as well as five novels, including La Mujer Hablada, which won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize, Tres Muescas en mi Carabina, which won the Juan Carlos Onetti Prize, and The Paper House, which won the Premio de la Fundación Lolita Rubial, Vienna's Jury of Young Readers Prize, and has been translated into 18 languages.
Domínguez's nonfiction work includes Delitos de Amores Crueles, Escritos en el Agua, and El Norte Profundo, as well biographies about Juan Carlos Onetti, Roberto de las Carreras, and Tola Invernizzi. His journalistic articles have been collected in two books: El Com -
Tamim Ansary
Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. Ansary gained prominence in 2001 after he penned a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban but warned of the dangers of a military intervention by the United States. The e-mail was a response to a call to bomb Afghanistan "into the Stone Age." His book West of Kabul, East of New York published shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, is a literary memoir recounting his bicultural perspective on contemporary world conflicts. Ansary writes about Islam, Afghanistan, and history. His book Destiny Disrupted retells the history of the world through Islamic eyes. His new book The Invention of Yesterday explores the role of narrative as a force in world his
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Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger); ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero, who later forced him to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to have him assassinated.
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Frank Dikötter
Frank Dikötter (Chinese: 馮客; pinyin: Féng Kè) is the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China on leave from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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Born in the Netherlands in 1961, he was educated in Switzerland and graduated from the University of Geneva with a Double Major in History and Russian. After two years in the People's Republic of China, he moved to London where he obtained his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1990. He stayed at SOAS as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and as Wellcome Research Fellow before being promoted to a personal chair as Professor of the Modern History of China in 2002. His r -
Ha Jin
Ha Jin is the pen name of Jin Xuefei, a novelist, poet, short story writer, and Professor of English at Boston University.Ha Jin writes in English about China, a political decision post-Tiananmen Square.
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Ha Jin grew up in mainland China and served in the People’s Liberation Army in his teens for five years. After leaving the army, he worked for three years at a railroad company in a remote northeastern city, Jiamusi, and then went to college in Harbin, majoring in English. He has published in English ten novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a book of essays, and a biography of Li Bai. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ha Jin is Will -
Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
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She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others. -
Norah Lange
Norah Lange fue una narradora y poetisa argentina de vanguardia, vinculada primero al Grupo Martín Fierro, especialmente con Jorge Luis Borges y luego al Grupo Proa de Leopoldo Marechal. Destacada por haber roto en Argentina el canon de que las mujeres no debían escribir prosa.
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Hija del noruego Gunnar Lange y la irlandesa Berta Erfjord fue la cuarta de seis hijos. Llamativa por su condición de pelirroja, se destacaba por su audacia para irrumpir en ámbitos hasta entonces reservados a los varones.
Se le supone un amor juvenil con Jorge Luis Borges, quien prologó su primer libro La calle de la tarde (1925) y de Leopoldo Marechal que la inmortalizó en Adán Buenosayres como Solveig Amundsen.
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Xiao Hong
Xiao Hong or Hsiao Hung (2 June 1911 – 22 January 1942) was a Chinese writer. Her given name was Zhang Naiying (張廼瑩); she also used the pen name Qiao Yin.
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Name in Chinese: 萧红
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Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran, Turkish author, was born in 1973. She is a daily columnist of one of the most popular Turkish newspapers for ten years and a prize winning journalist. Her primary concerns that she addresses are the contemporary criticism of popular culture, masques of politics, women issues, and all other deteriorating identities of humanity. She uses various forms of dramatic sentimentalism and black humor together, combined with her postmodern style, creating space for tactful connections to everyday life. She is the author of three experimental literary fiction books written in the form of poem in prose, and a documentary book on hunger strikes. Lately she published two collections of articles from her column. Temelkuran is the pioneerin
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Hakan Günday
Hakan Günday was born in Rhodes in 1976. He finished his primary education in Brussels. After attending Ankara Tevfik Fikret High School, he studied at the Department of French Translator in the Faculty of Literature of Hacettepe University. He then transferred to Université Libre de Bruxelles. Günday continued his study in the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He published his first novel, Kinyas ve Kayra, in 2000.
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He is also a playwright and working in cooperation with DOT company- İstanbul (http://go-dot.org/).
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Fadime Uslu
Fadime Uslu, 1978 yılında Adana'da doğdu. Ege Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü'nden sonra Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi'nde sınıf öğretmenliği eğitimini tamamladı. Editörlük ve yayın yönetmenliği yaptı. İlk öyküleri Sözcükler dergisinde;öykü ve kitap incelem yazıları Varlık, Kitaplık, Sarnıç, Notos dergilerinde yer aldı. İlk öykü kitabı Büyük Kızlar Ağlamaz 2010'da, Sokağın Kuyruğu adlı çocuk kitabı 2011'de yayımlandı. Gölgede Yaşamak adlı öykü dosyası 2011 Yunus Nadi Öykü Ödülü'ne değer görüldü. Yaz Korkuları isimli öykü kitabı 2014 yılında Can Yayınlarınca yayımlandı. Yazarın, Çat Kapı Dayım (2012) ve Kaçak Kahramanlar (2014) adlı iki çocuk romanı da vardır.
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Jing-Jing Lee
Jing-Jing Lee is the author of HOW WE DISAPPEARED (Oneworld and Hanover Square Press, May 2019). Born and raised in Singapore, she graduated from Oxford’s Creative Writing Master’s in 2011 and has since seen her poetry and short stories published in various journals and anthologies. Lee's novella, If I Could Tell You, was published by Marshall Cavendish in 2013 and her debut poetry collection, And Other Rivers, was published by Math Paper Press in 2015.
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Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin is the author of twelve books, including the forthcoming (May 2021) The Shortest History of China and the novel The Empress Lover, published in April 2014 as well as the travel companion Beijing, published in July 2014. Other major publications include the Quarterly Essay: Found in Translation (late 2013), five novels and a novella, a collection of essays (Confessions of an S&M Virgin) and a China memoir (Monkey and the Dragon). Her first novel was the internationally bestselling comic erotic Eat Me. The Empress Lover follows A Most Immoral Woman, which is set in China and Japan in 1904 and based on a true story. She is also a translator from Chinese and a playwright. She was the winner of the 2014 New South Wales Writers Fello
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Sang Young Park
Sang Young Park was born in 1988 and studied French at Sungkyunkwan University. He worked as a magazine editor, copywriter, and consultant before debuting as a novelist. The title story of his bestselling short story collection, The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta, was one of Words Without Borders’ most read pieces ever. He is the author of Booker International-longlisted Love in the Big City (translated by Anton Hur). He lives in Seoul.
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Takeshi Kitano
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Qian Zhongshu
Qian Zhongshu (Chinese name: 錢鍾書 / 钱钟书) (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition.
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He is best known for his satirical novel Fortress Besieged. His works of non-fiction are characterised by their large amount of quotations in both Chinese and Western languages (including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin). He also played an important role in digitizing Chinese classics late in his life.
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Chizuko Ueno
Chizuko Ueno is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".
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Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. At the same time, her radical tendency and strong character has invited criticism (she described herself as "critical, assertive, and disobedient").
Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the comp -
Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1532-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, from William Shakespeare to René Descartes, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Stephan Zweig, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a conservative and earnest Catholic but, as a result of his anti-dogmatic cast of mind, he is consi
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Engin Geçtan
Uzmanlık alanı psikiyatri olan Engin Geçtan 1975-1987 yılları arasında meslek dışı okuyucular tarafından da ilgiyle karşılanan dört kitap yazdı. Çok sayıda basım yapmış ve yapmakta olan, kendi bilimsel disipliniyle ilgili bu dörtlünün ardından (İnsan Olmak, Varoluşçu Psikiyatri, Normaldışı Davranışlar ve Psikanaliz ve Sonrası), psikiyatri alanının çerçevesinden çıkma isteği doğrultusunda roman-senaryo çalışmalarına başladı. Ankara ve İstanbul'daki dört üniversitede öğretim üyeliği yaptı ve psikoterapist olarak çalıştı.
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Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing, where he also teaches and advises academic journals.
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Johnson has spent over half of the past thirty years in the Greater China region, first as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985, and then in Taipei from 1986 to 1988. He later worked as a newspaper correspondent in China, from 1994 to 1996 with Baltimore's The Sun, and from 1997 to 2001 with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered macro economics, China's WTO accession and social issues.
In 2009, Johnson returned to China, where he writes features and essays for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and other publications. -
Te-Ping Chen
Te-Ping Chen is a fiction writer & journalist whose debut collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on February 2, 2021.
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Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta and Tin House. She is a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong. She has reported on rice cookers and wrongful convictions, gotten hung up on by Edward Snowden and eaten more robot-cooked noodles than she can count. -
Richard McGregor
Richard McGregor is a senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute.
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Rob Schmitz
ROB SCHMITZ is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.
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Prior to covering Europe, Schmitz provided award-winning coverage of China for a decade, reporting on the country's economic rise and increasing global influence. His reporting on China's impact beyond its borders took him to countries such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealan -
Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong (real name Lü Jiamin) was born in Beijing in 1946 and is a Chinese dissident and author, most famous for his best-selling 2004 novel Wolf Totem. He is married to fellow novelist Zhang Kangkang.
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Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Kantorowicz was born in Posen (Polish: Poznań, then in Prussia) to a wealthy, assimilated German-Jewish family and as a young man was groomed to take over the family business (primarily liquor distilleries). He served as an Officer in the German Army for four years in World War I, he decided not to return to the business world, but went instead to study philosophy at the University of Berlin, at one point also joining a right-wing militia that fought against Polish forces in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) and helped put down the Spartacist uprising in Berlin.[1] The following year, he moved to the prestigious University of Heidelberg to study history with Karl Hampe and Friedrich Baethgen, two noted medievalists. While in Heidelber
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Lao She
Lao She (Chinese: 老舍; pinyin: Lǎo Shě; Wade–Giles: Lao She; February 3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was the pen name of Shu Qingchun (simplified Chinese: 舒庆春; traditional Chinese: 舒慶春; pinyin: Shū Qìngchūn; Manchu surname: Sumuru), a noted Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature, and best known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶館). He was of Manchu ethnicity. His works are known especially for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
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Su Tong
Su Tong (simplified Chinese: 苏童; traditional Chinese: 蘇童; pinyin: Sū Tóng; born January 23, 1963) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui (童忠贵 Tóng Zhōngguì). He was born in Suzhou and lives in Nanjing.
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He entered the Department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and started to publish novels in 1983. He is now vice president of the Jiangsu Writers Association. Known for his controversial writing style, Su is one of the most acclaimed novelists in China.
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Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.
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Sterling Seagrave
Seagrave was an American writer, investigative journalist, and historian, his particular focus being topics of the far east.
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Bill Porter
Bill Porter is an American author who translates under the pen-name Red Pine (Chinese: 赤松; pinyin: Chì Sōng). He is a translator and interpreter of Chinese texts, primarily Taoist and Buddhist, including poetry and Sūtras.
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He also wrote books about Buddhist hermits(Road to Heaven) and his travels in China(Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China; Yellow River Odyssey). -
Ah Cheng
Ah Cheng, born in Beijing in 1949, is the pen name of Zhong Acheng (simplified Chinese: 钟阿城; traditional Chinese: 鍾阿城; pinyin: Zhōng Āchéng). An accomplished fiction writer, painter, and screenwriter (for internationally renowned Taiwanese director, Hou Xiaoxian), Ah Cheng spent the Cultural Revolution years in a small village in Inner Mongolia where he painted the sheep and grasslands, and on a State Farm bordering Yunnan province and Laos. During the 1980s he came to prominence as a member of the “primitive” or “seeking roots” literary movement. He has lived in several countries including the US, often not writing for long periods and working various jobs such as fixing bicycles and house painting. In 1992 he received the Italian Nonino I
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Nguyễn Xuân Khánh
Tiểu Sử:
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Nguyễn Xuân Khánh sinh năm 1933 tại làng Cổ Nhuế, Hà Nội. Ông đỗ tú tài Toán, học Đại học Y khoa Hà Nội cho đến hết năm 1952 thì ra vùng tự do tham gia bộ đội. Trong khoảng mười năm, ông ở một đơn vị pháo binh, rồi dạy văn hoá tại Trường Sĩ quan Lục quân trước khi chuyển về làm việc tại tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Từ 1966, ông là phóng viên báo Thiếu niên Tiền phong trước khi về hưu non vào năm 1973. Hiện ông sống ở Hà Nội.
Tác phẩm: Rừng sâu (tập truyện ngắn, Nxb. Văn học, H., 1962), Miền hoang tưởng (tiểu thuyết, Nxb. Đà Nẵng, 1990), Trư cuồng (tiểu thuyết, talawas, 2005), Hồ Quý Ly (tiểu thuyết, Nxb. Phụ nữ, Hà Nội, 2000, 2001, 2002, nối bản và tái bản 15 lần), Hai đứa trẻ và con chó Mèo xóm núi (Nxb Kim Đồng, Hà Nội, 2002), (Mưa -
Louisa Lim
Louisa Lim found her path into journalism after graduating with a degree in Modern Chinese studies from Leeds University in England. She worked as an editor, polisher, and translator at a state-run publishing company in China, a job that helped her strengthen her Chinese. Simultaneously, she began writing for a magazine and soon realized her talents fit perfectly with journalism.
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In 1995, Lim moved to Hong Kong and worked at the Eastern Express newspaper until its demise six months later and then for TVB Pearl, the local television station. Eventually Lim joined the BBC, working first for five years at the World Service in London, and then as a correspondent at the BBC in Beijing for almost three years.
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Ge Fei
Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964) is the pen name of novelist Liu Yong (刘勇), considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the most significant of the Chinese avant-garde writers that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He studied Chinese literature at East China Normal University and, after graduating in 1985, began to teach there and publish short stories and novellas. He read widely during his studies, but has since noted that he was particularly influenced by Borges, Faulkner and Robbe-Grillet. Some of his early, more experimental works were translated into English in the 1990s, such as "The Lost Boat", "Remembering Mr. Wu You" and "Green Yellow". -
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. An émigré to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
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Shalom Auslander
Shalom Auslander is an American author and essayist. He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Monsey, New York where he describes himself as having been "raised like a veal".[1][2] His writing style is notable for its Jewish perspective and determinedly negative outlook.
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Auslander has published a collection of short stories, Beware of God and a memoir, Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir. His work, often confronting his Orthodox Jewish background, has been featured on Public Radio International's This American Life and in The New Yorker. In January 2012, Auslander published his first novel, Hope: A Tragedy. -
Jin Yong
Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief.
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Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg co -
Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner, a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and economy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, until a serious health problem forced him to return to Turkey, where he graduated from the Faculty of German Literature and Linguistics in 1950. He also studied theatre and philosophy at the University of Vienna between 1955 and 1957 under the direction of Heinz Kindermann (1894–1985), an Austrian theater and literary scholar.
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As a well-disciplined writer accumulating a rich blend of culture, Taner wrote a great number of stories, generally humorous; essays, newspaper columns, travel writings and th -
Doğan Cüceloğlu
Doğan Cüceloğlu, kırktan fazla bilimsel makalesi yayınlanan bir psikolog ve çeşitli topluluklara bilimsel psikoloji çerçevesinde gelişim seminerleri sunan bir iletişim psikolojisi uzmanıdır. Çok sayıdaki kişisel gelişim kitabı ile Türk insanının düşünce, duygu ve davranışlarını inceler.
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Mersin'in Silifke kasabasında 11 çocuklu bir ailenin 11. çocuğu olarak dünyaya gelmiş ve ortaokulu orada bitirmiştir. Ankara ve Kırklareli'de liseyi bitirip İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji bölümünden mezun olmuştur. ABD'de Illinois Üniversitesi'nde Bilişsel Psikoloji doktorasını yapmıştır.
Türkiye'de Hacettepe ve Boğaziçi üniversitelerinde çalışmış, Fulbright bursu ile Berkeley'deki California Üniversitesi'nde ziyaretçi öğretim üyesi olarak bir sene görev almı -
Beyhan Budak
İlköğretim ve lise eğitimini Ankara’da alan Beyhan Budak üniversite eğitimini İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü’nde tamamlamıştır.
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Üniversite eğitimi sonrasında ilk yüksek lisans eğitimini Gazi Üniversitesi Psikolojik Danışma ve Rehberlik Bölümü’nde yapmıştır. Romantik ilişkiler üzerine yüksek lisans tezini hazırlamıştır. İkinci yüksek lisansını “Klinik Psikoloji” alanında İstanbul Esenyurt Üniversitesi’nde tamamlamıştır. Beyhan Budak evli ve iki çocuk babasıdır.
Uzun yıllar T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı’na bağlı bir hastanede çalıştıktan sonra istifa etmiştir ve psikoterapi ve eğitim çalışmalarına kurucusu olduğu merkezde devam etmektedir.
2018 yılında Tedx Kaleiçi etkinliğinde, “O Satın Aldığın Şey Mutluluk Değil!” isimli bir konuşma yapan Be -
Ng Kim Chew
Ng Kim Chew was born in Johor, West Malaysia, and lives in Taiwan, where he is a professor of Chinese literature at National Chi Nan University. His short story collections include Dreams, Pigs, and Dawn; Dark Nights; From Island to Island: Carved Spins; Earth and Fire: The Land of the Malay People; and Memorandums of the South Seas People's Republic. He has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the United Daily Literary Award and the China Times Literary Award.
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Yeşim Türköz
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü'nden 1985 yılında mezun olmuş ve aynı bölümden Klinik Psikoloji alanında bilim uzmanlığı derecesini almıştır. Doktora derecesini Ankara Üniversitesi Klinik Psikoloji ABD’da tamamlamıştır. Bilkent Üniversitesi, Bayındır Hastanesi ve Başkent Üniversitesi Psikiyatri ABD'da çalışmıştır. Psikolojik gelişim, psikoterapi ve eğitim çalışmalarını Günışığı Psikolojik Gelişim ve Psikoterapi Merkezi’nde sürdürmektedir.
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Sosyometri ve psikodrama alanında 4 yıl boyunca uygulamalı eğitimden geçmiş, bilişsel psikoterapi, gestalt psikoterapisi, aile terapisi ve grup terapisi alanlarında uygulamalı eğitim almıştır. Avrupa Psikoterapi Deneğinin (EAP) akredite edilmiş kurumsal üyesi olarak faaliyet gösteren ve Psi -
Mo Yan
Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
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Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.
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Ma Boyong
Associated Names:
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* Ma Boyong (English)
* 马伯庸 / 馬伯庸 (Chinese)
* หม่าป๋อยง (Thai)
* Mã Bá Dung (Vietnamese)
* Ма Боюн (Russian)
马伯庸（1980年11月14日－），本名马力，朋友惯称“小白”，赤峰人，中国大陸作家，曾就职于施耐德电气（中国）投资有限公司，人稱「網路鬼才」、马亲王、亲王。作品涵蓋歷史、科幻、影視評論等諸多領域。
Ma Boyong (born 14 November, 1980) is a Chinese novelist, columnist and blogger. In the year of 2010, he won People's Literature Prize, one of China's most prestigious honors.
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Shen Congwen
Shen Congwen (沈从文, December 28, 1902 – May 10, 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, was one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun. Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger role in his writing than that of other major early modern Chinese writers. He was known for combining the vernacular style with classical Chinese writing techniques. Shen is the most important of the "native soil" writers in modern Chinese literature...
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Can Dündar
Araştırmacı, gazeteci ve belgesel yapımcısı.
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Lise öğrenimini Ankara Atatürk Lisesi'nde gerçekleştirdi. 1982 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Basın Yayın Yüksek Okulu'ndan mezun oldu. 1979'dan itibaren sırasıyla Yankı, Hürriyet, Nokta, Haftaya Bakış, Söz ve Tempo'da çalıştı. 1986'da İngiltere'de London School of Journalism'i bitirdi. Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi bölümünde siyaset bilimi dalında yüksek lisansını 1988'de, aynı bölümünde doktorasını 1996'da tamamladı. Televizyona 1988'de TRT'de Seynan Levent ile başladı. 1989'da 32. Gün'de çalışmaya başladı.
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Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo (Chinese: 王小波) was a Chinese writer who became famous after his death.
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Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory. He met Li Yinhe in 1977, who was working as an editor for "Guangming Daily", and she later became his wife. He was accepted by Renmin University of China in 1978 where he studied economics and trade and got his Bachelor's Degree. He received his Master's Degree at the Univ -
Thomas Bauer
Thomas Bauer, geboren 1961, seit 2000 Professor für Islamwissenschaft und Arabistik an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Seit 2007 Vorstandsmitglied im Exzellenzcluster "Religion und Politik" der Universität Münster. 2002-2006 Direktor des »Centrums für Religiöse Studien« der Universität Münster. 2006-2007 Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte der arabisch-islamischen Welt, klassische arabische Literatur.
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Tarık Tufan
1973 yılında İstanbul'da doğdu. Kabataş Erkek Lisesi ve İstanbul Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümünü bitirdi. Marmara Üniversitesi Ortadoğu ve İslam Ülkeleri Enstitüsü Sosyoloji Bölümünde yüksek lisans eğitimini tamamladı. Çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde yazıları yayınlanmakta ve bazı televizyon kanallarında edebiyat-sohbet türünde programlar sunmaktadır. Yayımlanmış beş adet kitabının yanı sıra Uzak İhtimal ve Yozgat Blues filmlerinin senaristlerindendir.
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Kitaplarındaki zarif ve naif anlatım üslubunu senarist olduğu filmlerde de görmek mümkündür. "Uzak İhtimal" filmiyle 2009 yılında İstanbul Film Festivali'nde "En İyi Senaryo" ödülünü kazanmıştır. Uzak İhtimal'in ardından senaryosunu yazdığı "Yozgat Blues" filmiyle 2013 yılında Altın Koza Film Fest -
Sunay Akın
Şükrü Sunay Akın (d. 12 Eylül 1962), şair, yazar, gazeteci, araştırmacı, tiyatro oyuncusu.
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12 Eylül 1962 tarihinde Trabzon'un Maçka ilçesinde doğdu (bu yüzden 18 yaşından beri doğum gününü kutlamamaktadır). Ailesi, onun daha iyi eğitim görebilmesi için, 10 yaşındayken İstanbul'a taşındı. Lise öğrenimini İstanbul Haydarpaşa Lisesi'nde tamamladı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Fizik Coğrafya Bölümü'nden mezun oldu.
İlk şiirini, Meteoroloji Müdürlüğü'nde çalışan bir memurun kızına yazar. Henüz 9 yaşındadır. Kızın isminin baş harflerinin dizelerini oluşturduğu şiiri, evlerinin terasında bulunan odunluk kapısının iç kısmına yazar. Kız, balkona geldiğinde odunluğun kapısını açar mahsusçuktan!. Ama şiir kızın gözüne hiçbir zaman takılmaz. Sunay Akın yıllar s -
Diana Cooper
Diana Cooper has written books about angels, Archangels, unicorns, all elementals including fairies and Ascended Masters. Her Spirit guide Kumeka, who has given her information about the orbs, Atlantis, the Spiritual Laws, ascension and enlightenment
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Alexander Betts
Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, and Associate Head (Doctoral and Research Training) of the Social Science Division, at the University of Oxford. He served as Director of the Refugee Studies Centre between 2014 and 2017. His research focuses mainly on the political economy of refugee assistance, with a focus on Africa.
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He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was named by Foreign Policy magazine in the top 100 global thinkers of 2016, and his TED talks have been viewed by over 3 million people. He has previously worked for UNHCR and has served as a Councillor on the World Refugee Council. His writings have appeared in the New -
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo (Simplified Chinese: 郭小櫓 pinyin:guō xiǎo lǔ, born 1973) is a Chinese novelist and filmmaker. She utilizes various media, including film and writing, to tell stories of alienation, introspection and tragedy, and to explore China's past, present and future in an increasingly connected world.
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Her novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers was nominated for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. She was also the 2005 Pearl Award (UK) winner for Creative Excellence. -
Alai
Alai (Chinese: 阿来; pinyin: Ālái; Tibetan: ཨ་ལེ་, Wylie: a-le, ZYPY: Alê, Lhasa dialect IPA: [ɑ́lè]; born 1959 in Sichuan province) is a Chinese poet and novelist of Rgyalrong Tibetan descendent. He was also editor of Science Fiction World.
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Alai's notable novel Red Poppies (The Dust Settles - Chen'ai Luoding), published in 1998, follows a family of Tibetan chieftains, the Maichi, during the decade or so before the liberation of Tibet by the People's Liberation Army in 1951. Their feudal life in the Tibetan borderlands, narrated by the youngest "idiot" son, is described as cruel, romantic, and full of intrigue (with the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China presented as a great advance for the Tibetan peasantry). Red Poppi -
Jessie Greengrass
Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London, where she now lives with her partner and child. Her story collection, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, won the Edge Hill Prize 2016 and a Somerset Maugham Award, and she was shortlisted for the PFD/Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Sight is her first novel.
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Hiromi Kawakami
Kawakami Hiromi (川上弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
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Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
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Alex Kerr
Born in 1952, he's an American writer and Japanologist that has lived in Japan since 1977.
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Librarian note: There are other authors with the same name. To see the English historian go to Alex Kerr. -
Blaine Harden
Harden is an author and journalist who worked for The Washington Post for 28 years as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. He was also a national correspondent for The New York Times and writer for the Times Magazine. He has contributed to The Economist and PBS Frontline.
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Harden's newest book, "Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the
American West." New York Times columnist Tim Egan calls it a "terrific" deconstruction of a Big Lie about the West. The LA Times calls the book "terrifically readable." The Spokesman Review (Spokane, Wa.) raves that Murder at the Mission is "a richly detailed and expertly researched account of how a concocted story...