Yutaka Yazawa
Having spent university and early career years in London, Yutaka Yazawa decided to return to his childhood home of Tokyo. After a long career travelling in law, he decided to make the switch to writer.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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* Harry Hole
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Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Andrews & McMeel, 1996). Her next book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in December 2009 and Granta Books in 2010.
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Demick was correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Eastern Europe from 1993 to 1997. Along with photographer John Costello, she produced a series of articles that ran 1994-1996 following life on one Sarajevo street over the course of the war in Bosnia. The series won the George Polk Award for international reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in the features categor -
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humor. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life.
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His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.
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Kenji Miyazawa
His name is written as 宮沢賢治 in Japanese, and translated as 宮澤賢治 in Traditional Chinese.
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Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) was born in Iwate, one of the northernmost prefectures in Japan. In high school, he studied Zen Buddhism and developed a lifelong devotion to the Lotus Sutra, a major influence on his writing. After graduating from an agricultural college, he moved to Tokyo to begin his writing career but had to return home to care for a sick sister. He remained in his home in Iwate for the rest of his life. One of his best-known works is the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, which was adapted into anime in the late twentieth century, as were many of his short stories. Much of his poetry is still popular in Japan today. -
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent. As an acclaimed travel writer, he began his career documenting a neglected aspect of travel -- the sometimes surreal disconnect between local tradition and imported global pop culture. Since then, he has written ten books, exploring also the cultural consequences of isolation, whether writing about the exiled spiritual leaders of Tibet or the embargoed society of Cuba.
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Iyer’s latest focus is on yet another overlooked aspect of travel: how can it help us regain our sense of stillness and focus in a world where our devices and digital networks increasing distract us? As he says: "Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at p -
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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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Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travelogue writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast.
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Veronika Cosculluela
Veronika Cosculluela je slovenská novinárka. Vyrastala v Podkoniciach pri Banskej Bystrici. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku v Bratislave a politické vedy v Grenobli a v Belehrade. Desať rokov bola hlavne politickou redaktorkou pre rôzne slovenské médiá, naposledy v Plus 7 dní. Vždy, keď bola možnosť, namiesto rozhovorov s politikmi ju to ťahalo k reportážam. Tak sa dostala aj k téme väzenstva v čase, keď sa na Slovensku začalo počas covidovej pandémie veľa rozprávať o podmienkach ľudí vo väzniciach. Zaujímalo ju, ako rozmýšľajú o tejto téme ľudia, ktorí tento uzavretý systém tvoria. Scvrknutý svet (Absynt 2025) je jej debutovou knihou.
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Chris Broad
Chris Broad is a British filmmaker and founder of the Abroad in Japan YouTube channel, one of the largest foreign YouTube channels in Japan with over 2.5 million subscribers and 400 million views. Over ten years and two hundred videos, Chris has visited all of Japan's forty-seven prefectures, focusing Abroad in Japan on travel, food and culture. He has also covered contemporary issues through documentaries on the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. His experiences have made him a sought-after voice on life inside Japan and he has been featured on the BBC, TEDx, NHK and the Japan Times.
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Nína Björk Jónsdóttir
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat, as well as a former tour guide and TV, newspaper and radio journalist. Born and bred in Iceland, Nína Björk has spent a quarter of her life abroad, studying and working in various countries in Europe.
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She is the author of a book for children and young adults on Icelandic heroines throughout history, Íslandsdætur, published by Salka in 2020. Her English translation of the book, Daughters of Iceland, came out 2 years later, also published by Salka.
Nína Björk co-wrote How to Live Icelandic, with her childhood friend Edda Magnus, published in 2021 by Quarto. The book has since been translated and published in 2022 Dutch, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.
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Nicola Twilley
Nicola Twilley is author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science, and which is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. Her first book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, was co-authored with Geoff Manaugh and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Edible Geography. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Marek Hudec
Pochádza z Nových Zámkov (1990), mediálne štúdiá absolvoval na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne. Bol redaktorom denníka SME, v súčasnosti pracuje v Múzeu mesta Bratislavy a podieľa sa na organizácii festivalu BRaK a Dúhového PRIDE.
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Po literárnom debute Prosté rozprávky vydal v roku 2022 dokumentárny román Uzol o bombardovaní jeho rodného mesta. Nominovali ho na Cenu René a ocitla sa aj ankete Kniha roka Denníka N.
Ďalšia reportážna kniha Spúšť o teroristickom útoku pred barom Tepláreň sa zas objavila v ankete Kultúrna udalosť roka 2024. Komiks Veľká vzdialenosť bol zaradený do užšieho výbereu nesúťažnej sekcie Nejkrásnejší kniha Slovenska.
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Fumio Sasaki
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Ivana Gibová
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut roka. Niektoré poviedky z knihy Usadenina boli preložené do nemčiny a angličtiny. Novela Bordeline (2014) sa stala predlohou pre rovnomennú inscenáciu divadla Stoka a pražského divadla Nekroteatro. V roku 2016 vydala knihu Barbora, boch & katarzia, ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Anasoft litera 2017; získala cenu René Anasoft litera gymnazistov a bola nominovaná na Cenu Jána Johanidesa za najlepšiu prozaickú knihu autora do 35 rokov. V roku 2020 vyšla komixovo-poviedková kniha Eklektik Bastard.
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Elena Lacková
(1921-2003) Slovakian Romani poet, story writer, and playwright born in Velky Šariš region. She has written several plays, novels, and stories about the Romani Holocaust experience. Her plays have been shown in Romani theatres since the 1950s and her short stories “Dead are not Coming Back,” “White Ravens,” and “Life in the Wind” were published in magazines and the Romani newspaper Romano Nevo Lil. She was awarded the Chatam Sofer medal from Pavol Mestan, director of the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava, for her documentation of the consequences of Holocaust on the Romani community.
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