Writers

J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for the "Harry Potter" series of novels.

George Orwell was a British novelist, essayist, and journalist whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

Ren Xiaowen is a Chinese fiction writer from Shanghai. Her works include the novel 好人宋没用 and the short-story collection 飞毯. Read her interviews on writing and research.

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.

Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (English: Thomas Stearns Eliot, September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), an American-born British poet, literary critic, and playwright, a representative figure of English modernist poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. His masterpiece "The Waste Land" is considered one of the most influential English poems of the twentieth century.

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Kt., TC (English: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, referred to as V. S. Naipaul, August 17, 1932 - August 11, 2018), also translated as Naipaul, an Indian-born British writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Trinidad, a Caribbean island, he entered Oxford University to study English literature in 1950. After graduation, he moved to London and worked for the British National Broadcasting Corporation. Most of his works are novels and travelogues. The New York Times Book Review once praised him as "a world writer, a language master, and a novel wizard with unique vision." His novels "A House for Mr Biswas" and "A Bend in the River" are listed as one of the top 100 English novels of the 20th century. The "India Trilogy" of travel literature - "The Kingdom of Darkness", "India: A Wounded Civilization" and "India: Today of Millions of Rebellions" are his most famous works in the field of travel notes. In 1990, he was knighted by the Queen of England. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Passed away at his home in London on August 11, 2018.

Mishima Yukio (Japanese: Mishima Yukio/ Yukio, Romanized: Mishima Yukio, January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), whose real name was Hiraoka Kimi Kimitake, Japanese novelist, playwright, journalist, filmmaker, film actor and political activist. Yukio Mishima is one of the masters of Japanese post-war literature. He has a high reputation in the Japanese literary world and has friends from all walks of life. Among Yukio Mishima's many works, "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" published in 1956 is the most well-known. This is a work full of tragic disillusionment aesthetics. Okuno Keno once praised the novel at the time: "This is the highest level of Mishima's literature, the culmination of Mishima's aesthetics, and the biggest harvest in the literary world this year." Mishima's other representative works include the novels "Confessions of the Mask" and "Chao Sao". In addition to Japan, Mishima's works are also highly praised in the Western world. Some people even call him "Japan's Hemingway" and "Contemporary Japan's Leonardo da Vinci". Between 1963 and 1968 (except 1966), he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and was also the youngest writer in history to be nominated (along with Kipling, he was nominated at the age of 38). After Kawabata Yasunari won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, Mishima Yukio was not recommended for the Nobel Prize again until his death in 1970. Yukio Mishima is also the contemporary writer whose works have been translated into English and other foreign languages ​​the most. Mishima later became more inclined to political activities, joined the Japan Self-Defense Forces for experience, and established the militia organization Tadanokai. On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four other members of the Sonokai kidnapped the director-general of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Eastern Directorate (today's Eastern Front) at the Ichigaya garrison in Tokyo. Mishima delivered a coup speech on the terrace, but received no support from the Self-Defense Officers. Mishima immediately chose to commit seppuku. This incident had a huge impact on Japan and had a strong impact on Japan's literary circles and political movements, such as the establishment of Japan's New Right.

Dongxi (1966-), whose real name is Tian Dailin, male, from Tian'e, Guangxi, is a contemporary Chinese writer. He has won the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award, the First Lu Xun Literary Award for Novella, the Third and Fourth Guangxi Bronze Drum Awards for Literary Creation, and the 2005 Novelist Award at the Chinese Literature Media Awards. In 2023, the novel "Echo" won the 11th Mao Dun Literary Award.

Keigo Higashino (Japanese: Keigo Higashino / Higashino Keigo, Romanized: Higashino Keigo, February 4, 1958 - July 23, 2026), Japanese mystery novelist.

Daniel Gerhard Brown (English: Daniel Gerhard Brown, June 22, 1964 -), born in New Hampshire, United States, American writer, author of "The Da Vinci Code". Most of his works are suspense novels that combine cryptography, technology, religion, art and other knowledge types.

Daniel Defoe (English: Daniel Defoe, /dɪˈfoʊ/; September 13, 1660 - April 24, 1731), formerly known as Daniel Foe, was a British novelist, journalist, pamphleteer, and political spy. His works mainly describe individuals overcoming difficulties through hard work and relying on their own wisdom and bravery. The plot has twists and turns, uses a self-narrative method, and is highly readable. It also reflects the social atmosphere of pursuing adventure and advocating personal struggle at that time. His news writing "The Storm" is one of the pioneer works of modern journalism. His masterpiece "Robinson Crusoe" is world-famous. Robinson became a typical example of fighting against difficulties, so he is regarded as one of the founders of British novels.

Rebecca West (English: Rebecca West, December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983), British writer, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A writer across multiple genres, West has written book reviews for The Times, The New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph, and The New Republic, and was a reporter for The Bookman.

George Raymond Richard Martin (English: George Raymond Richard Martin, September 20, 1948 -), often called George R.R. Martin or GRRM, is an American writer and screenwriter who mainly creates fictional literary works in the styles of fantasy, horror and science fiction. His representative work is the series of epic fantasy novels "A Song of Ice and Fire", of which five have been published. It was adapted by HBO into the TV series "Game of Thrones" with a total of eight seasons and 73 episodes, which was broadcast from 2011 to 2019 and won many awards including the Emmy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2005, Martin was called "America's J.R.R. Tolkien" by Lev Grossman, a writer for Time magazine, and was selected by Time magazine as one of Time's 100 Greatest People in 2011. .

Jonathan Swift (English: Jonathan Swift, November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745), an Anglo-Irish, Irish writer, famous for his works such as "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Tale of a Bucket". According to historical records, he had multiple identities. Includes clergy, political pamphleteers, satirists, writers, poets and radicals.

Yu Dan (June 28, 1965 -), a native of Beijing, originally from Yuyao, Zhejiang, has a master's degree in ancient Chinese literature and a doctorate in film and television. He is the assistant to the dean of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, the director of the film and television media department, and a master's tutor. He studied at Beijing No. 4 Middle School, his undergraduate degree at Beijing Vocational and Technical Normal College (now Beijing Union University), and his master's and doctoral degree at Beijing Normal University. He is currently a member of the China Television Artists Association, secretary-general of the University Art Committee of the China Television Association, a special researcher of the China Television Association Theoretical Research Society, a visiting researcher of the China Central Television Research Office, the China Journalism Research Society, the China Radio and Television Society Host Research Society, the standing judge of the Legal Program Committee of the China Radio and Television Society, and the chief consultant of the Australian News Corporation. Currently, he is the chief planning consultant of Beijing Television Station and regularly teaches in the graduate class of television studies at the School of Broadcasting, Beijing Normal University. His father is Yu Lian, deputy general manager of Zhonghua Book Company. In 2009, "Yu Dan's Insights on "The Analects of Confucius"" was selected into the "600 Most Influential Books in China in the 60 Years of New China" jointly sponsored by the China Booksellers Newspaper and the China Publishing Science Institute.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Romanized: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837) was a Russian writer, linguist, historian, and political commentator who worked in the fields of poetry, drama, novels, literary criticism, and theory. He is an outstanding representative of Russian romantic literature and the founder of Russian realist literature. He is one of the most prestigious figures in the field of literature in the early nineteenth century. He is honored as the "Sun of Russian Poetry" and the "Father of Russian Literature". He is also the founder of modern standard Russian. Pushkin's poetic novel "Yevgeny Onegin" panoramically shows the whole picture of Russian society at that time and can be called "the encyclopedia of Russian life". He not only supported certain views of the Decembrists, but also raised the main social issues of that era in his works: the relationship between the autocracy and the people, the life path of the aristocracy, and the peasant issue; he created typical images with highly general significance: "superfluous people", "money knights", "little people", and leaders of the peasant movement. The raising of these questions and the creation of literary images have greatly promoted the advancement of Russian social thought, are conducive to awakening the people, and are conducive to the development of the Russian liberation movement. Pushkin's excellent works have achieved a high degree of unity in content and form. His lyric poems are rich in content, deep in emotion, flexible in form, exquisite in structure, and beautiful in rhythm. His prose and novels have concentrated plots, strict structures, and vivid and concise descriptions. Pushkin's creations had an important impact on the development of Russian realist literature and world literature. Gorky called it "the beginning of all beginnings." . His representative works include the poems "Ode to Freedom", "To the Sea", "To Chadayev", "I Remember That Wonderful Moment", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "The Bronze Horseman", etc., the verse novel "Eugene Onegin", the short story "The Queen of Spades", the novella "The Captain's Daughter", etc.

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Александр Исаевич Солженицын, Romanized: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, pronounced: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɪˈsajɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]; December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008), Soviet and Russian philosopher, historian, short story writer, dissident and political prisoner. Solzhenitsyn unabashedly criticized the Soviet Union and communism, and after settling in the United States, he criticized liberal values ​​without mercy. His stance made it difficult for both the left and the right to get along with him. He is a Nobel Prize winner in literature and an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has made great achievements in many fields such as literature, history, and linguistics. After serving in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, he was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp before being exiled for criticizing Stalin in a private letter. The reforms introduced by Khrushchev liberated him from exile in 1956, and only one of his works was allowed to be published in the Soviet Union, the novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1962). But the publication of "The Cancer Ward" (1968), "August 1914" (1971) and "The Gulag Archipelago" (1973) outside the Soviet Union angered Brezhnev and Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship. In 1974 he flew to West Germany and moved to the United States with his family in 1976, where he continued to write and turn to criticize the United States. In 1990, near the collapse of the Soviet Union, his citizenship was restored. Four years later, he returned to Russia and criticized Russia's poor social situation under Yeltsin until his death in 2008. He won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature for his pursuit of the traditional moral power of Russian literature. His "Gulag Archipelago" was a highly influential work that "posed a head-on challenge to the Soviet Union" and sold tens of millions of copies. Some people regard him as a great writer and hero who fought against the Soviet authorities, but Solzhenitsyn also criticized all democrats, capitalists, individual consumers, liberals, etc. As an eternal opposition, in the eyes of the people, he is a person who is difficult to understand and face.

Arthur Asher Miller (English: Arthur Asher Miller, October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005), born in New York, United States, was an American Jewish playwright, social critic and essayist. He was also the third husband of Marilyn Monroe. His representative plays are "Death of a Salesman" and "The Witches of Salem". He is also a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.

Yishu (September 25, 1946 -), whose real name is Ni Yishu, also has pen names such as Amei, Meifeng, Isabel, Rose, and Jiliguala. Yi Shu was born in Shanghai and is originally from Zhenhai, Zhejiang. Chinese-Canadian, Hong Kong writer. His representative works include "happy Bao", "The First Half of My Life", "Golden Years", etc. Yishu already enjoyed reading literary magazines and classical novels during his school days. In addition to novels, Yi Shu also writes essays, interviews with people, etc., and also writes a column in Ming Pao Weekly under the pen name "Yisha Bei". Most of his early works were published in "China Student Weekly", and later in "Ming Pao". Later works were published by Hong Kong Tiandi Books Co., Ltd. Many works have been adapted into movies and TV series. Most of the female characters in Yi Shu's works are self-loving and self-reliant, and their unique attitude affects many Chinese readers.

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (Polish: Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz) ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; May 5, 1846 – November 15, 1916) was a Polish writer. His major works include the Patriotic Trilogy of historical novels: "Fire and Sword", "Torrent" and "Catching Fire", which mainly reflect the story of the Polish people's resistance to foreign invasion in the 17th century. His other works include "The Crusader Knights", "Where Are You Going/The Tyrant's Burning City", "In the Desert and the Wilderness", etc. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905 due to "the outstanding achievements of his epic works". He was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his outstanding achievements in novel creation. At the beginning of the 20th century, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and others began to translate Sienkiewicz's works into Chinese. Today, most of his novels and some of his novels and short stories are available in Chinese.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883, October 28, 1818 - August 22, 1883 in the Julian calendar), Russian realist novelist, poet and playwright.

Ivan Alexeevich Bunin (Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, October 22, 1870 – November 8, 1953) was a Russian writer and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born into a declining aristocratic family in the city of Voronezh, his father Alexey Nikolayevich Bunin was a prodigal son who drank and gambled excessively and squandered all his property. His mother, Lyudmila Alexandrovna, was often sad and shed tears. Later, the family was forced to move to his grandfather's Butyrki estate, and later to his grandmother's estate in Orel Province. Bunin spent his childhood in a quiet rural life. In 1881, Bunin studied at the Noble Boys' High School in Yelets County, but dropped out of school. As the family's financial situation deteriorated, Buning began to work outside the home very early. He worked as a proofreader, statistician, librarian, and reporter. When he was working at the Orel Herald, he met a girl named Varya Paschenko. They fell in love for two years and finally broke up due to the opposition of the girl's parents. Bunin caused a lot of trauma in his soul. Most of his novels have tragic endings. He has studied under Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky and other writers, and has written for Gorky's "Knowledge Publishing House". He began publishing literary works in 1887. He published his first collection of poems in 1892, his first short story in 1897, and his collection of poems "Falling Leaves" in 1901, which was based on the theme of the motherland, its poor villages and vast forests, and won the Pushkin Prize. After the October Revolution in 1920, he went into exile in France. Wrote nearly 200 short stories. His major works include the poetry collection "Falling Leaves", the short stories "Three Rubles", "Heatstroke", "Antonov's Apples", "Pine Tree", "Crow", "New Road", "Paris", the novella "Country", etc. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Mija's Love". Reason for winning the Nobel Prize: "Because of his rigorous artistic talent, he has enabled the Russian classical tradition to be carried forward in prose."

Italo Calvino (Italian: Italo Calvino, October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer born in Havana, Cuba. His strange and imaginative allegorical works made him one of the most important Italian novelists of the twentieth century.

Max·Forrest·eastman（English：Max Forrester Eastman，1883Year1moon4day—1969Year3moon25day），American writer、poet、well-known political activist，Writing content involving literature、philosophy and sociology。While in graduate school in New York, I came into contact with radicals in Greenwich Village.，Start supporting socialism，was a major benefactor of the Harlem Renaissance，for advocating many freedoms、Radical ideological activities and social activities。 He was the editor of the journal Masses. In 1917, together with his sister Christel Eastman, he founded the radical political and artistic journal "The Liberator". 1922autumn solstice1924summer，Eastman lived in the Soviet Union，Witness the power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin，It also witnessed Stalin’s eventual sudden seizure of power.。As a witness to the Great Purge and Soviet totalitarianism，He first criticized Stalinism，Later, he went on to fiercely criticize both communism and socialism in the broad sense.，Turn to advocate the free market economic model of Iran，against communism，Although he still retained his atheistic views。 1955Year，he published《Reflections on the failure of socialism》a book，Although his later articles were mostly found in《national review》publications that tend to be conservative，But his thoughts have always remained independent，for example，exist1960Era，He publicly criticized the United States over the Vietnam War before most others.。 When Eastman left the Soviet Union, he took a copy of Lenin's Testament with him. After returning to the United States in 1927, he changed his views and began to fiercely criticize socialism, communism, and the Stalinist system. Eastman's wife's brother was the old Bolshevik Nikolay Vasilyevich Krylenko.