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Ayako Miura 2010-02-05
Ayako Miura was born in the town of Asahikawa, on Hokkaidō in 1922.
Her debut novel, "Freezing Point", was published in 1963, and defeated many famous writers and won the Asahi Shimbun's Ten Million Yen Award.
By the end of 1964, "Freezing Point" serialized in the Asahi Shimbun for nearly a year, during that period it swept men and women all over Japan, caused readers to read, discuss and resonate. "Freezing Point" was sold stunning 5 million copies and was adapt into movies, television dramas and stage plays several times.
Miura has published numerous works including novels, essays and memories. Many of her novels are considered best-sellers, and a number have been made into movies, radio plays and TV dramas. Her important works include "Freezing Point" series, "Mud Slide Era", "Shiokari Pass", "Hidden Ranges", "Mother," and "Gun Point" and so on. Her works revolve the theme of human sin, and reveal humanitarian care. Miura was awarded the "Hokkaido Development Merit Award" because Hokkaidō are frequently the settings of her novels.
Liao Yu-hui 2010-02-05
Her works includes dozen of essay collection "Not to Believe to Cannot Call Back Tenderness" "Charming", "If the Memory is Like the Wind", "Impolite", "A Teacher Like Me", "Far-sighted Princess", "Down to Earth", and novels "Bet His Life", "Light Blue Bubbles", picture book "Bright", interview transcription, "Interview with Butterfly Catcher" and the academic works "Detailing Peach Blossom Fan", "Life is Sentient" and so on. Her works have been selected for the high-school literature curriculum and a variety of anthology.
Seicho Matsumoto 2010-01-15
Yu Chih Chang 2009-12-15
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2009-12-15
The 55-year-old novelist now at peak of his career was originally a journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for nine years out of his more than twenty years journalistic career, risking his life and reporting news in the front line of Western Sahara, Equatorial Guinea, Lebanon, and the Bosnian war. He became widely known hero of Spain. Pérez-Reverte's rich reporting experiences cultivated his keen insight and rapid writing speed.
Pérez-Reverte started to write while working as journalist. He maintained exuberant creativity and publish one full-length novel every year since his debut work "El húsar" in 1986. Up to now, Pérez-Reverte published 16 novels and a serious historical adventure novel with leading character Captain Alatriste. His works are not only well received by readers but also won important literary awards at home or abroad. His works also sold into many countries and sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Pérez-Reverte was elected a member of the Spanish Royal Academy in 2003. It's not too far to call this contemporary bestselling author and whose works have been sold into most countries "national writer" of Spain.
Ayako Sono 2009-11-25
Arnaldur Indridason 2009-11-25
Arnaldur Indridason's following novel, Silence of the Grave, won the Glass Key award in the following year also, making him the first author ever to have won the award two years running. Silence of the Grave also won the prestigious Gold Dagger Award by Crime Writers' Association.
Babette Cole 2009-10-23
Dan Brown 2009-10-15
Dan Brown's father is a Presidential Award winning math professor and his mother is a professional sacred musician. He grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. Dan Brown's wife is both an art historian and painter. She collaborates on his research and accompanies him on his frequent research trips. The Da Vinci Code is complete in the Louvre when they went to Paris together.
Dan. Brown is also author of Angels & Demons and Deception Point. As Brown said, Angels & Demons is the prequel of The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown created the character of Robert Langdon in Angels & Demons for the first time. The story describes Harvard University symbolist Langdon's adventure in Vatican City, one year before his important visit to the Louvre.
Jean-Louis Fournier 2009-09-15
Although Fournier was often invited to talk about his works on the media, but Fournier kept avoiding talking about his own two children. Until he was 70 years old, that is, in 2008, he finally published Where We Going, Daddy? (Où on va papa?). This is the first time he wrote as a father of two handicapped children. He said: "I didn't want to mention it in the past not because of fear of shame, or fear of people's strange look, but because I cannot face the unbearable pain after telling."
The publishing of Where We Going, Daddy? immediately caused quite a sensational response in France. It succeeded in both sales and duration of staying on bestselling list. Fournier's words comforted a lot of readers, not just the same as the parents of children with disabilities. It also tells readers to live with courage and a smile even if there is a painful experience. Some critics said: "Perhaps God has not treated Fournier's children well, but this work to Fournier, and even to all the readers, is the best gift when face difficulties of life."
Cormac McCarthy 2009-08-26
Blood Meridian, published in 1985, is considered a turning point in McCarthy's writing career. He continued to write a series of novels set in American western. McCarthy finally received widespread recognition in 1992 with the publication of All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of his Border Trilogy and became best-selling author. Low-key by nature, he was also took the first exclusive media interview at this time. In 2006 Border Trilogy was selected by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. McCarthy's latest book, The Road, was published in 2006 won James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for literature and the Quills Award, and was picked by dozen of international media as best book and selected in Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.
The Film No Country for Old Men adapted from his novel of the same name won four Academy Awards in 2008. In 2008, McCarthy was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. McCarthy now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Jennifer Winkley, and their younger son, John.
Baku Yumeakura 2009-08-17
Pang-yuan Chi 2009-07-17
Chi worked as visiting professor at St. Mary's College, California State University at San Francisco, and guest professor at Free University Berlin, Germany. Chi is known for her exact attitude toward teaching, writing and exposition. Chi has edited, translated and published various literary criticisms. She play an important role in introducing western literature to Taiwan and introducing English translation of Taiwan's representative literary work to the Western world.
Anthony Browne 2009-07-07
A surrealist painter, Anthony Brown has become best-selling author of picture books around the world. His books were frequent short-listed many children book's awards and enjoy great popularity. Anthony Browne's unique ultra realistic style shuttles back and forth between the reality and the imagination. There are humorous interests hiding in each small place, and allow readers having new discovery each reading.
Browne graduated from Leeds College of Art in 1967. Before working as full-time author and illustrator of children's books, Anthony Browne took a job as medical illustrator for three years. This period of time let him refine his practical description skill; then he moved on to design greeting cards for Gordon Fraser for fifteen years which let him have more opportunities to try for different styles, and for the subsequent work of children's books lay a solid foundation. Whenever he has an idea for picture books, Anthony Browne said "It is a wonderful combination of story and image. Decide what to illustrate in the book is just like to decide what scene to film for a movie" He created a unique surrealistic painting language in world of children's picture books, with integration of textures as real as photos, and surreal visual crazy puns. With Browne's superb drawing skills and humorous ideas, color, shape, background, and details deliver the touching emotion and though-provoking implications underlying the story.
Nicholas Sparks 2009-06-26
Sparks wrote many best-selling novels. 7 of his novels have made the New York Times best-seller list. Sparks' books have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and four of his novels have been made into films: Dear John, Message in a Bottle, The Notebook and A Walk to Remember.
Enzo 2009-06-11
Enzo is a pen name, from the representing sound of angel, also meant to thank all the persons that have ever offered their help. Enzo wanted to be cartoonist at high school, and then almost ceased painting; admitted to the Department of Journalism in university, but never considered being a journalist. He worked in a bookstore after graduation and worked as creative contributors at the same time. Now he is a full-time writer. Enzo won several certificates of award as a student but never received any formal art training. He is still not used to being an illustrator and prefer illustrating for his own writing. His works received good reviews and have been selected as best picture book by Eslite and Kingstone and won The Best Picture Books of Golden Tripod Awards. Enzo now writes columns for both magazines and newspaper, and also draws covers for many best-selling books.
Andrew Clements 2009-05-23
Clements started to write poems since high school. His English teacher once said one of his poems "is so funny. This should be published!" This praise set him off to continue writing. He worked as a high school teacher, lyric writer, and chief editor of publisher. Now Clements is a full-time writer and currently lives in Massachusetts.
Shiraishi Kazuhumi 2009-05-11
In addition to Light of the Monet, Shiraishi also wrote Imprisoned Heart, The Unbroken Part in My Heart, How Much Love There is, Dragon in the Heart.
Wu Dan-ru 2009-04-23
Wu is not only a best-selling writer but also hosts many TV and radio shows. Because Wu did interview with more than one thousand persons from all kind of background and exchange opinions with different persons, she has extensive experience and deep insight into "how to speak".
Dan-ru said if speaking is a kind of art then it is the most difficult art to understand. But it is essential to understand this art and it can help you keep much smoother relationship with your colleagues, lover, family and friends..
Therefore, she wrote this book.
Let's study and grow with Dan-ru and get to know "speaking", an interesting art with ease.
Bryce Courtenay 2009-04-16
In addition to The Power of One, every Courtenay's new book is best-seller. Courtenay is the only author who can beat Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter and won the top-seller. At present he has written 20 novels and, although the advanced age 74, still writes ceaselessly. Courtenay is the true Australia's top selling novelist.
Mary Higgins Clark 2009-03-26
An annual Mary Higgins Clark Award sponsored by Simon &Schuster, to be given to authors of suspense fiction writing in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition, was launched by Mystery Writers of America in April 2001. Clark has been awarded thirteen honorary doctorates. She has also been named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, received The Women of Achievement award from the Federation of Women's Clubs in New Jersey, and the Irish Woman of the Year award from the Irish-American Heritage and Cultural Week Committee of the Board of Education of the City of New York. Clark's books have sold more than 85 million copies in the United States alone. She is the true Grand Master of suspense writing.
Mohsin Hamid 2009-02-27
Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke was published in 2000. It won a Betty Trask Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was published in 2007 and soon became a bestseller on all kinds of bestselling lists. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Commonwealth Writers Prize and was a a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of the year.
John Banville 2009-02-20
Juli Zeh 2009-02-11
Joseph Finder 2009-01-31
Joseph Finder was born in Chicago in 1958. He spend much of his early childhood in Afghanistan and Philippine, later lived in Albany, capital of New York State. Finder is also a member of Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He writes extensively on espionage and international affairs for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic magazine.
Finder graduated from Yale University and received a master's degree from the Harvard Russian Research Center. Red Carpet and Moscow Club, which were published when Finder was 24 years old, were set in Russia. In Moscow Club, Finder imaged a KGB coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a full display of his past study in Russian Research. His fourth novel High Crimes became a hit movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. In recent years, Finder’s writing shifted to the more popular types of thriller and suspense. His consecutive works won major awards and sales were constantly increased. The main reason that Finder’s works are favored by readers is Finder is very good at describing actions and reactions of ordinary people in danger and bringing readers the feeling of live. The ending of his works also often surprises his readers.
Philip Roth 2008-12-20
Keigo Higashino 2008-11-25
Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka, Japan in 1958. He graduated from Department of Electrical Engineering of Osaka Prefecture University.
He won Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1985 for the novel Hōkago, and in 1998 won the 52nd Mystery Writers of Japan Inc Award for the novel Himitsu, which made into a movie, starring Ryoko Hirosue and Kaoru Kobayashi. In 1999, he published Byakuyakō, a mystery novel with a time span of 19 years and exquisite description of leading characters and people around them. After Byakuyakō, Higashino's style became more skillfully and the quality of his works gets into the next level.
Higashino was nominated Naoki Prize in 2001 for his novel Kataomoi, about a love affair unacceptable by the society; then in 2003, he was nominated for Naoki Prize again for his novel Tegami, which described relationship between inmate, his family and family of his victim. In 2006, he won the 134th Naoki Prize and 6th Honkaku Mystery Prize for the novel Yōgisha X no Kenshin. Yōgisha X no Kenshin was considered his best work so far.
Hisgashino's works are extensive and various but still care for practical issues, which make his works more credible than others. His early works focus more on exquisite riddles. Latest works pay more attention to people's innermost feelings and devote to discover life's helplessness and hope. With his science background, Higashino is able to manage topics related to technology easily, such as Shukumei, touching on brain science and Galileo series (Tantei Galileo , Yōgisya X no Kenshin, and Yochimu) featuring Manabu Yukawa.
Continuous concern with social issues makes Haigashino write Lakeside, discussing education problems in Japan, and Tegami, exploring relationship between victim of crime and family of family of offender. After he won various prizes for Yōgisha X no Kenshin, Higashino has reached summit that no one ever reached before and caused rare phenomenon of Japanese mystery writing.
Paul Krugman 2008-10-28
From 1982 to 1983, Krugman worked at the Reagan White House as a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. Krugman is the fifth member of the MIT economics department to receive the John Bates Clark Medal, which is awarded to the outstanding economist under the age of forty. He was awarded Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, the "European Pulitzer", in 2004, and then awarded Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. Krugman is a member of National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also worked as economic adviser to Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, even countries such as Portugal and Philippines, etc.
Sebastian Fitzek 2008-09-30
Jodi Picoult 2008-08-29
Picoult’s first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, caused wide attention. She already published more than a dozen novels, including Harvesting the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995), Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998), Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match (2002), Second Glance (2003), My Sister’s Keeper (2004), Vanishing Acts (2005), The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007), and Change the Heart (2008). She wrote several issues of Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics in 2007. The Pact and Plain Truth – were made into television movies. My Sister’s Keeper is currently in development, with Cameron Diaz starring.
