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Lian Hearn

Lian Hearn's beloved Tales of the Otori series, set in an imagined feudal Japan, has sold more than four million copies worldwide and has been translated into nearly forty languages. It is comprised of five volumes: ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON, THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON and HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDE. The series was followed by two standalone novels, BLOSSOMS AND SHADOWS and THE STORYTELLER AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS, also set in Japan.

Hearn's forthcoming series: The Tale of Shikanoko will be published by FSG in 4 volumes in 2016. Book 1 will be EMPEROR OF EIGHT ISLANDS out in late-April 2016, followed by book 2: AUTUMN PRINCESS, DRAGON CHILD (June), book 3: LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (August), and the fina

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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.

He also wrote books about Buddhist hermits(Road to Heaven) and his travels in China(Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China; Yellow River Odyssey).

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford

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Ezra F. Vogel

Ezra Feivel Vogel was an American sociologist who wrote prolifically on modern Japan, China, and Korea. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

Vogel was born to a family of Jewish immigrants in 1930 in Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1950 and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Social Relations in 1958 from Harvard.

After two years of field work in Japan, Vogel worked as an assistant professor at Yale University from 1960 to 1961, but returned to Harvard for post-doctoral work on Chinese language and history. He was appointed as a lecturer in 1964, later becoming a tenured professor; he remained at Harvard until his retirement.

Vogel was involved with several research ce

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Wu Cheng'en

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Wu Cheng'en (simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn, ca. 1505–1580 or 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, best known for being the probable author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, also called Monkey.

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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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Robert van Gulik

Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat best known for his Judge Dee stories. His first published book, The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, was a translation of an eighteenth-century Chinese murder mystery by an unknown author; he went on to write new mysteries for Judge Dee, a character based on a historical figure from the seventh century. He also wrote academic books, mostly on Chinese history.

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Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing.

In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood , which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize.

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Gu Long

also known as: 古龍

Xiong Yaohua (Chinese: 熊耀華) (7 June 1938 – 21 September 1985), better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Chinese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials, which include Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang. Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times. In the 1980s Xiong started his own film studio, Bao Sian, to focus on adaptations of his works. He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School in Taipei and from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University.

Xiong was born on 7 June 1938 in Hong Kong but his registered identity claimed that h

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Ch'ien Mu

Traditional Chinese: 錢穆
Simplified Chinese: 钱穆

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Di Li

Di Li được biết đến là một cây bút đa tài, với sức viết đáng kể khi cho ra mắt hàng chục đầu sách đủ thể loại, và đặc biệt thành công với các tiểu thuyết trinh thám.

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Truyện ngắn: Tầng thứ nhất (2007), Điệu Valse địa ngục (2007), 7 ngày trên sa mạc (2009), Tháp Babel trên đỉnh thác Ánh trăng (2010), Đôi khi tình yêu vẫn hay đi lạc đường (2010), San hô đỏ (2012), Khách lạ và người lái taxi (2015)

Tiểu thuyết: Trại Hoa Đỏ (2009), Câu lạc bộ số 7 (2015)

Bút ký: Đảo thiên đường (2009), Nụ hôn thành Rome (2015), Và tuyết đã rơi ngoài cửa sổ (2017), Bình minh ở Sahara (2018), Cô đơn trên Everest (2020)

Hồi ký: Nhật ký mùa hạ (2011)

Ký sự chân dung: Chuyện làng văn (2012)

Tản văn: Cocktail thị thành (2011), Adam & Eva (2013), Gã Tây kia sao l

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Vũ Trọng Phụng

Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912-1939) là một nhà văn, nhà báo nổi tiếng của Việt Nam vào đầu thế kỷ 20. Tuy thời gian cầm bút rất ngắn ngủi, với tác phẩm đầu tiên là truyện ngắn Chống nạng lên đường đăng trên Ngọ báo vào năm 1930, ông đã để lại một kho tác phẩm đáng kinh ngạc: hơn 30 truyện ngắn, 9 tập tiểu thuyết, 9 tập phóng sự, 7 vở kịch, cùng một bản dịch vở kịch từ tiếng Pháp, một số bài viết phê bình, tranh luận văn học và hàng trăm bài báo viết về các vấn đề chính trị, xã hội, văn hóa. Một số trích đoạn tác phẩm của ông trong các tác phẩm Số đỏ và Giông Tố đã được đưa vào sách giáo khoa môn Ngữ văn của Việt Nam.

Nổi tiếng với giọng văn trào phúng châm biếm xã hội của mình, một số người đã so sánh ông như Balzac của Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, cũng vì p

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Cao Xueqin

Xueqin Cao (Chinese: 曹雪芹; pinyin: Cáo Xuěqín; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, 1715 or 1724 — 1763 or 1764) was the pseudonym of a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
It has been suggested that his given name was Zhan Cao (曹霑) and his courtesy name is Mengruan (夢阮; 梦阮; literally "Dream about Ruan" or "Dream of Ruan")[...]

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Luo Guanzhong

Luo Ben (c. 1330–1400), better known by his style name Luo Guanzhong (罗贯中) (Mandarin pronunciation: [lwɔ kwantʂʊŋ]), was a Chinese writer who lived during the Yuan Dynasty. He was also known by his pseudonym Huhai Sanren (Chinese: 湖海散人; pinyin: Húhǎi Sǎnrén; literally "Leisure Man of Lakes and Seas"). Luo was attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Water Margin, two of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

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Ma Boyong

Associated Names:
* 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.

His short story The City of Silence was translated into English by science fiction writer Ken Liu.

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Nguyễn Du

Nguyễn Du (1766–1820), tên tự Tố Như (素如), hiệu Thanh Hiên (清軒), biệt hiệu Hồng Sơn lạp hộ (鴻山獵戶), Nam Hải điếu đồ (南海釣屠), là một nhà thơ, nhà văn hóa lớn thời Lê mạt, Nguyễn sơ ở Việt Nam. Ông được người Việt kính trọng tôn xưng là "Đại thi hào dân tộc".[1]

Tác phẩm Truyện Kiều của ông được xem là một kiệt tác văn học, một trong những thành tựu tiêu biểu nhất trong nền văn học trung đại Việt Nam.

Please do not combine with Nguyễn Dữ (16th-century): https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

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Nguyễn Bảo Trung

BS.Nguyễn Bảo Trung đang công tác tại BV Nguyễn Trãi (TP.HCM),

Anh sinh năm 1980, đã xuất bản 2 cuốn sách (Vô thường và Sen) được độc giả, nhất là bạn trẻ đón nhận nồng nhiệt bởi sự nhẹ nhàng trong văn phong cùng kinh nghiệm thực tập nhận diện sự thật để khỏe hơn, an hơn giữa cuộc sống.

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Gu Man

Associated Names:
* Gu Man (English)
* 顾漫 (Chinese)
* กู้ม่าน (Thai)
* Cố Mạn (Vietnamese)

Romanization of 顾漫.

Gu Man, born in 1981, is a renowned internet novelist in China who also works as a writer for Jinjiang Literature City. Her published works include: "Silent Separation", "Just One Smile is Alluring", "Shan Shan Comes to Eat" and "Blazing Sunlight". Some of her popular works have been adapted into drama series and films. Although her books are well-liked by many, she is rather slow in her writing, with only several books published and a few incomplete works. Hence, her nickname is ‘turtle’. (来源:百度百科) (source: baidu)'

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Yi-Shu

Associated Names:
Yi-Shu
亦舒 (Chinese)

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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...

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Con...

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Violet Kupersmith

Violet Kupersmith is the author of the novel BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY and the short story collection THE FRANGIPANI HOTEL. She previously taught English with the Fulbright Program in the Mekong Delta and has lived in Da Lat and Saigon, Vietnam. She was the 2015-2016 David T.K. Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, and she is the recipient of a 2022 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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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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Gu Long

also known as: 古龍

Xiong Yaohua (Chinese: 熊耀華) (7 June 1938 – 21 September 1985), better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Chinese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials, which include Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang. Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times. In the 1980s Xiong started his own film studio, Bao Sian, to focus on adaptations of his works. He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School in Taipei and from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University.

Xiong was born on 7 June 1938 in Hong Kong but his registered identity claimed that h

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Ch'ien Mu

Traditional Chinese: 錢穆
Simplified Chinese: 钱穆

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Di Li

Di Li được biết đến là một cây bút đa tài, với sức viết đáng kể khi cho ra mắt hàng chục đầu sách đủ thể loại, và đặc biệt thành công với các tiểu thuyết trinh thám.

Đã xuất bản:

Truyện ngắn: Tầng thứ nhất (2007), Điệu Valse địa ngục (2007), 7 ngày trên sa mạc (2009), Tháp Babel trên đỉnh thác Ánh trăng (2010), Đôi khi tình yêu vẫn hay đi lạc đường (2010), San hô đỏ (2012), Khách lạ và người lái taxi (2015)

Tiểu thuyết: Trại Hoa Đỏ (2009), Câu lạc bộ số 7 (2015)

Bút ký: Đảo thiên đường (2009), Nụ hôn thành Rome (2015), Và tuyết đã rơi ngoài cửa sổ (2017), Bình minh ở Sahara (2018), Cô đơn trên Everest (2020)

Hồi ký: Nhật ký mùa hạ (2011)

Ký sự chân dung: Chuyện làng văn (2012)

Tản văn: Cocktail thị thành (2011), Adam & Eva (2013), Gã Tây kia sao l

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Nguyễn Bảo Trung

BS.Nguyễn Bảo Trung đang công tác tại BV Nguyễn Trãi (TP.HCM),

Anh sinh năm 1980, đã xuất bản 2 cuốn sách (Vô thường và Sen) được độc giả, nhất là bạn trẻ đón nhận nồng nhiệt bởi sự nhẹ nhàng trong văn phong cùng kinh nghiệm thực tập nhận diện sự thật để khỏe hơn, an hơn giữa cuộc sống.

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Yi-Shu

Associated Names:
Yi-Shu
亦舒 (Chinese)

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Anni Baobei

Anni Baobei (安妮宝贝), or Annie Baby, real name Li Jie, is the most talked about and widely read female author in China, nicknamed ‘Flower in the Dark’ since her stories detail the loneliness and isolation of Chinese urbanites. Her candid yet sensitive reflections on contemporary city life have significantly influenced the generation of Chinese readers born during and after the 1980s. ‘I write for kindred souls,’ she once said.

Annie Baobei made her debut with the short story collection Goodbye Vivien, which sold over half a million copies, and followed up with the bestselling novels The Flower across the Bank and Two and Three Matters.

Her current bestselling novel, Lotus, is an emotionally charged love story set in Tibet. It has sold over half

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Guy Morris

Often compared to Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum and others, Guy's books earned the Reader's Favorite GOLD Award for SWARM, and SILVER Award for The Last Ark, and listed on BookTrib 2021 Favorite 25 Books, for The Curse of Cortes, calling it Indiana Jones meets Da Vinci Code.

Guy Morris is a retired business executive for Fortune 500 companies, published song writer for Disney Records, inventor, Coast Guard charter captain, adventurer and author influenced by men of the Renaissance fluent in politics, religion and science. From Latin America to the Pacific, and from the Board Room to recording studio, Guy pulls from a rich life of experience. Guy’s books are written to thrill, educate and inspire thoughtful dialogue on real issu

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Xu Zhonglin

Xu Zhonglin (1567-1619/1620) was a Chinese writer who lived in the Ming Dynasty. He is best known as the author of the novel Fengshen Yanyi.

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Travis Heermann

Travis Heermann is also known as T. James Logan.

Freelance writer, novelist, award-winning screenwriter, editor, poker player, poet, biker, roustabout, Travis Heermann is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, a member of the Authors Guild, an Active member of SFWA and the HWA, and the author of The Hammer Falls, The Ronin Trilogy, Rogues of the Black Fury, and co-author of Death Wind. His short fiction appears in anthologies and magazines such as Apex Magazine, Alembical, Blood & Gasoline, BattleTech: Legacy, and many others. As a freelance writer, he has contributed a metric ton of work to such properties as Firefly Roleplaying Game, Legend of Five Rings, EVE Online, and BattleTech.

He enjoys cycling, collecting martial arts styles and

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Kyle Mortensen

Kyle Mortensen is the author of the Sons of Yokai series with his debut novel in the age of warring states of feudal Japan.

The intent of his first novel, Mists of Iga, was to be able to bring a realistic, informative, and enjoyable story on a culture that is typically overlooked by western audiences.

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