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 milli…
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bac…
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist who then lived in southwest France where he was in exile for many years. Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh …
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Fa…
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and an…
Xue Xinran, who usually writes as simply "Xinran", was a radio broadcaster in China before moving to Great Britain and beginning to publish books. She currently writes as a columnist.
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as …
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 …
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of “The Sympathizer,” awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. His most recent book, “To Save and to Destroy,” explores…
Nguyễn Thị Xuân Phượng sinh năm 1929, quê làng Nham Biều, huyện Hương Trà, tỉnh Thừa Thiên - Huế. Năm 16 tuổi (1945) bà thoát ly gia đình, xếp bút nghiên lên đường tranh đấu giành độc lập cho đất nước…
Giáo sư John Vũ – Nguyên Phong, là một nhà khoa học nổi tiếng ở Mỹ, đứng trong Top 10 người sáng tạo nhất thế giới (mà đứng đầu là Bill Gates và Steve Jobs). Ông chính là người dịch tác phẩm nổi tiếng…
Aya Kitō (木藤亜也, July 19, 1962 – May 23, 1988) was a Japanese diarist. She wrote about her personal experiences living with spinocerebellar ataxia which was later published in the book 1 Litre no Namid…
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 Ng…
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư (sinh năm 1976 tại xã Tân Duyệt, huyện Đầm Dơi, tỉnh Cà Mau) là một nữ nhà văn trẻ của Hội nhà văn Việt Nam, được biết đến nhiều nhất bởi tập truyện gây tranh cãi mang tên Cánh đồng bất…
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…
Hideo Yokoyama (横山 秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1998 …
Nhà văn Đỗ Bích Thúy sinh năm 1975, hiện đang là Phó Tổng biên tập Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Sinh ra tại vùng cao nguyên đá Hà Giang nên những tác phẩm của chị phản ánh khá đậm nét cuộc sống sinh hoạ…
