Yusuke Kishi

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  Antonio Garrido

  Es Ingeniero Industrial y reside en Valencia, en donde trabaja como profesor del Master de Diseño de Transporte en el Centro de Formación de Postgrado de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y profesor de la Escuela Superior de Diseño Industrial en la Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU. Es director de una empresa de consultoría de diseño de automóviles, y escribe artículos en prensa especializada. Es también profesor invitado del taller literario de novela histórica del Instituto Valenciano de Estudios Clásicos y Orientales.
  
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  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
  Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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  Ryū Murakami

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

  Suzuki Kōji (鈴木光司) is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. He is currently on the selection committee for the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.

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  Keigo Higashino

  Associated Names:
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  * 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
  * 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
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  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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  Agatha Christie

  Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
  
  Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen

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  Otsuichi

  Otsuichi (乙一, Otsuichi?), also known as Eiichi Nakata and Asako Yamashiro, is the pen-name of Hirotaka Adachi (安達 寛高), born 1978.
  
  He is a Japanese writer, mostly of horror short stories. He made his debut with Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse while still in high school.
  
  Major works include the novel Goth, which was made into a manga, and the short story collection Zoo, which was made into a movie.
  
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  Kazuaki Takano

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  He began making films for himself when he was only in grade school, and as an adult worked for a time under the director Kihachi Okamoto.
  
  After dropping out of university in Japan to gain first-hand experience in film and television production, he went to college in Los Angeles and worked in the movie industry there before returning to Japan.
  
  His debut as a writer came in 2001 with Jusan kaidan (Thirteen Steps), which delves into the system of capital punishment; the novel won the Edogawa Rampo Award and sold over 400,000 copies.
  
  Jenosaido (Genocide of One) was short-listed for the Naoki Prize in 2011, received the 2011 Yamada Futaro Prize, and took first place i

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  Edogawa Rampo

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  Nguyên Hồng

  Sinh trưởng trong một gia đình nghèo, mồ côi cha, từ nhỏ theo mẹ ra Hải Phòng kiếm sống trong các xóm chợ nghèo.
  
  Nguyên Hồng ham đọc sách từ nhỏ. ông thường dành tiền thuê sách để đọc và dường như đọc hết những quyển sách mình thích ở cửa hàng cho thuê sách tại Nam Định. Loại sách Nguyên Hồng thích thuở nhỏ là truyện lịch sử Trung Hoa, trong đó những nhân vật có khí phách ngang tàng, trung dũng, những hảo hán chiếm cảm tình của ông nhiều nhất.
  
  Nguyên Hồng bắt đầu viết văn từ năm 1936 với truyện ngắn "Linh Hồn" đăng trên Tiểu thuyết thứ 7. Đến năm 1937, ông thực sự gây được tiếng vang trên văn đàn với tiểu thuyết "Bỉ Vỏ". Tiểu thuyết "Bỉ vỏ" là bức tranh xã hội sinh động về thân phận những "con người nhỏ bé dưới đáy" như Tám Bính, Năm Sài Gòn.

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  Shūsuke Shizukui

  Shusuke Shizukui (雫井 脩介, 1968–) made his publishing debut after winning the Shincho Mystery Club Prize in 1999 for a suspense novel set in the world of judo, Eiko itto (Path to Glory). He received the Haruhiko Oyabu Award for Hannin ni tsugu (The Investigation Game) in 2005, and the novel about a serial kidnapper and murderer became a bestseller. Although his early works were mainly in the mystery and suspense genre, he has more recently expanded his repertoire to include love stories and family novels, including the best-selling Kurozudo noto (Closed Diary). Hannin ni tsugu and Kurozudo noto have both been adapted to film. His other novels include Hanzai shosetsu-ka (Crime Novelist), Tochu no ippo (A Step Along the Way), and Kensatsu-gawa

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  Kanae Minato

  Kanae MINATO (湊 かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.
  
  She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.
  
  She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu"(eww mystery), a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature.

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  Honobu Yonezawa

  Honobu Yonezawa (米澤穂信), Yonezawa Honobu, born 1978) loved making up stories even as a child and began writing fiction at the age of 14. By the time he got to university he was posting stories on his own website. After graduation he continued writing while working in a bookstore, and first got into print in 2001 when Hyoka (Ice Cream), a YA mystery novel he submitted for the Kadokawa School Novel Prize competition, earned an honorable mention. Sayonara yosei (Farewell, Sprite), a critically acclaimed story of the relationship between Japanese high-school boys and a girl from war-torn Yugoslavia, helped cement his reputation when it was published in 2004. Since then he has been a regular presence on lists of the year's best mysteries. Oreta r

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  Shinzō Mitsuda

  See 三津田 信三 (Japanese)、 三津田信三 (Traditional Chinese).

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  Chan Ho-Kei

  Chan Ho-Kei 陳浩基 was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, scriptwriter, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started in 2008 at the age of thirty-three, with the short story ‘The Case of Jack and the Beanstalk,’ which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He went on to win the award again the following year with ‘The Locked Room of Bluebeard.’
  
  In 2011, Chan’s first novel, THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD, won the biggest mystery prize in the Chinese-speaking world, the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, and has subsequently been published in Taiwan (Crown), China (New Star), Japan (Bungeishunju), Thailand (Nanmee) and Italy (Metropoli d’Asia).

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  Anna Triss

  Née en 1985 à Annecy, Anna Triss dévore son premier livre de fantasy à l’adolescence et tombe amoureuse de ce genre littéraire.
  Cet événement marque le déclic d’une passion inconditionnelle : l’écriture.
  Pendant des années, enfermée dans sa petite bulle et guidée par son imagination, elle voyage dans ses mondes hétéroclites grâce à sa plume.
  Elle est fascinée par les créatures mythiques, les dragons en particulier. Elle écrit sa saga de dark fantasy « La Guilde des Ombres« , qui traite d’une confrérie d’assassins évoluant dans un univers riche et détaillé. Elle s’attache à approfondir la psychologie et la personnalité de ses sombres personnages tout en incorporant dans ses histoires la touche d’humour qui caractérise sa plume. Après avoir publ

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  Sōji Shimada

  Japan language profile here 島田 荘司
  Russian language profile here Содзи Симада

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  Kim Un-Su

  Un-su Kim was born in 1972 in Busan and is the author of several highly praised novels. He has won the Munhakdongne Novel Prize, Korea’s most prestigious literary prize, and was nominated for the 2016 Grand Prix de la Littéraire Policière. He lives in Jinhae-gu, South Korea.

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  Laird Koenig

  Laird Koenig (born 24 September 1927 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author. His best-known work is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a novel published in 1974. The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also wrote a play based on the novel.

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  Kōji Suzuki

  Suzuki Kōji (鈴木光司) is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. He is currently on the selection committee for the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.

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  Thomas Day

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  Philip Le Roy

  Né en 1962 à Toulouse, diplômé d’une École supérieure de commerce à Paris, exportateur de spiritueux à Londres, humanitaire à Manille, serveur à Atlantic City, charpentier dans le New Jersey, créateur d’une agence de voyages à New York, vendeur de signalétique à Lyon, concepteur-rédacteur publicitaire à Nice, je suis aujourd’hui écrivain à Vence. Comment en suis-je arrivé là ????
  

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  Kim Bo-young

  Kim Bo-young (Korean: 김보영; born 1975) is a South Korean science fiction writer based in Gangwon Province, South Korea. In addition to her novels and short story collections, she has worked as a script advisor for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer in 2013.[1] She is the first Korean science fiction author to be published by HarperCollins.

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  David Vann

  Published in 19 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain and, most recently, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize 2013, and appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers. A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he is currently a Professor at the

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  Louis Guilloux

  Louis Guilloux was a French known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is Le Sang noir (Black Blood), which has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's La Nausée."
  
  Before becoming a professional writer, literary translator and interpreter, Guilloux worked in various trades, including journalism. He was well known for his fluency in the English language. He married in 1924, and published La Maison du Peuple in 1927.
  
  The success of the book led to a long series of novels on socially committed themes, usually based in his native Brittany. His masterpiece Le Sang Noir was notable for its departure from his earlier, more staightforwardly social

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  Ma Văn Kháng

  Nhà Văn MA VĂN KHÁNG
  • Ma Văn Kháng tên thật là Đinh Trọng Đoàn, người Kinh, Sinh ngày l tháng 12 năm 1936. Quê gốc: phường Kim Liên, quận Đống Đa, thành phố Hà Nội Hiện ở quận Ba Đình, Hà Nội. Đảng viên Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam. Hội viên Hội Nhà Văn Việt Nam (1974).
  
  
  Vài nét về quá trình học tập, công tác :
  
  Năm 1948: Đội viên Đội Truyền bá vệ sinh Cục Quân y.
  
  1949: Học sinh Trường Thiếu Sinh Quân, Bộ Quốc Phòng.
  
  1952-54: Học sinh Trường Sư pham Khu học xá Trung Ương (Nam Ninh - Quảng Tây- Trung Quốc).
  
  1955-59: Hiệu trưởng Trường Cấp II Thị xã Lào Cai.
  
  1960-63: Sinh Viên Đại học Sư Phạm Hà Nội.
  
  1963: Hiệu trưởng Trường Phổ thông Cấp III Thị xã Lào Cai.
  
  1968: Thư ký của Bí thư tỉnh ủy Lào Cai.
  
  1970-76: Phó Tổng biên tập Báo Lào Cai- cơ quan của Tỉnh đ

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  Hannelore Cayre

  A criminal lawyer, she is also a film director and, above all, a writer.

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