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“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
- Haruki Murakami
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Japan
Haruki Murakami (b.1949)
Novelist & short-story writer
Murakami has produced books and stories that are bestsellers
around the world – millions of copies are sold outside Japan
- and have been translated into 50 languages. His best-known
works include he Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kaka on
the Shore. He has received several awards, including the
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2016.
85
India
Arundhati Roy (b.1961)
Writer and activist(^) Roy catapulted to international fame with her debut novel
he God of Small hings, which won the Man Booker Prize
for Fiction (1997). he rights to her second novel, he
Ministry of Utmost Happiness, were sold in more than 20
countries. Roy is also a political activist for human rights
and environmental issues.
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Japan
Tsugumi Ohba(pen name)
Manga writer
Ohba is famous for creating the wildly popular
Death NoteandBakumanmanga series, which were
illustrated by Takeshi Obata, though the writer remains
largely anonymous. he two series, which have 30 million
and 15 million volumes in circulation, respectively,
provide a fascinating insight into Japan’s manga
publishing industry.
86
China
Mo Yan (pen name) (b.1955)
Novelist & short-story writer
he very proliic novelist and short-story writer,
whose real name is Guan Moye, was the irst
mainland Chinese resident to win the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 2012. His most notable works are
Red Sorghum Clan and he Republic of Wine. he
Swedish historian Peter Englund refers to Mo Yan’s
style as “damn unique”.
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First Chinese
recipient of the
Nobel Prize in
Literature