Writers

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (Spanish: Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, July 23, 1886 - December 14, 1978) was a Spanish diplomat and writer who served as president of the International Free League. He went into exile abroad during the Spanish Civil War and actively opposed Francisco Franco's dictatorship and Soviet communism. Francisco Franco returned to Spain only after his death.

Samuel Beckett (English: Samuel Beckett, April 13, 1906 - November 10, 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet in the 20th century. He lived in Paris, France as an adult and was a representative figure of absurdist drama. In 1969, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his sublime artistic expression of human suffering in a new form of novel and drama."

Choi Park Lai, GBS (English: Choi Park Lai, December 28, 1922 - July 26, 2018), formerly known as Cai Quanqin, was a Hong Kong historian, philanthropist and the third generation successor of Cai Zhenbutang.

Jiang Biwei (April 9, 1899-December 16, 1978), formerly known as Tangzhen, styled Shumei, female, was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Writer of the Republic of China.

Willa Cather (English: Willa Cather, December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947), an American writer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her book "One of Ours". Her works are famous for describing women and the pioneer life of early American immigrants (such as "Oh Pioneer!" and "My Antonia"). She is one of the important rural authors in the United States. She grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years before moving to New York when she was 33, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, CH (English: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/; Hindi: अहमद सलमान रुश्दी; June 19, 1947 -), Indian-born British-American writer.

Hong Ying (September 21, 1962-), a native of Chongqing, is a female writer and poet. He studied at Lu Xun Institute of Literature in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai. In the spring of 1991, he went to the UK on a student visa. In the same year, he married Zhao Yiheng, who teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. After marriage, he worked as a part-time model and later began literary creation. Around 2006, she divorced Zhao Yiheng. Later, she gave birth to a daughter, Sybil, and now lives in Beijing.

Sigrid Undset (Norwegian: Sigrid Undset, May 20, 1882 - June 10, 1949) was a Norwegian novelist and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her most famous work is a trilogy of modernist novels describing life in medieval Scandinavia - "Kristin Lavransdatter" (Kristin Lavransdatter), which is set in fourteenth-century Norwegian society and describes the life of a woman. Undset's novel "reproduces the social life of Norway in the first half of the fourteenth century and criticizes the ills of society at that time - violence and injustice. When Undset was writing this work, her writing skills were already very proficient. In addition to her family background, she had a deeper understanding of ancient social life. She wrote It feels natural and easy to read. She injects modern life into the characters dressed in fourteenth-century clothes, so there is no sense of being outside the world when reading this historical novel. You will feel that it reflects living reality, and the characters in it are as lifelike as those in modern novels." (Meng Xianzhong)

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (French: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir; January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French writer, existential philosopher, feminist activist, and social theorist. Her thoughts and theories have had a significant impact on feminist existentialism and feminist theory, and have become the foundation of contemporary feminism. She has written novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is famous for her essay "The Second Sex", which analyzed the oppression of women in detail and established contemporary feminism from a philosophical level. She was awarded the 1954 Goncourt Literary Prize, the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, and the 1978 Austrian National European Literature Prize.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (English: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce; February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941), Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He made important contributions to the modernist movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel "Ulysses" (1922) is a landmark work. It uses a variety of literary styles to correspond to various chapters of Homer's "Odyssey", and is especially famous for its stream-of-consciousness technique. Other well-known works include the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional news reports. Born into a middle-class family in Dublin, Joyce attended the Jesuit Clongoswood College in County Kildare and then briefly attended O'Connell School, run by the Christian Brothers. Although the family life was turbulent due to his father's uncertain financial situation, he excelled at the Jesuit College of Beauty and graduated from University College Dublin in 1902. In 1904, he met his future wife, Nora Barnacle, and the two subsequently moved to the European continent. He worked briefly in Pola (in present-day Croatia) before moving to Trieste, Austria-Hungary, where he worked as an English teacher. Except for working as a correspondence clerk in Rome for eight months and returning to Dublin three times, Joyce lived in Trieste until 1915, during which time he published a collection of poems, Chamber Music, and a collection of short stories, Dubliners, and began serializing "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" in the British magazine The Solipsist. During most of World War I, Joyce lived in Zurich, Switzerland, where he worked on Ulysses. After the war, he briefly returned to Trieste and moved to Paris in 1920, which remained his main residence until 1940. "Ulysses" was first published in Paris in 1922, but was considered obscene and its publication was banned in the United Kingdom and the United States. Printed copies were secretly smuggled into the two countries and pirated, and it was not until the mid-1930s that publication was legalized. Ulysses frequently ranks high on lists of the greatest books, and the scholarly literature on Joyce's work is vast and growing. many writers

James Arthur Baldwin (English: James Arthur Baldwin, August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social activist who was widely praised for his social commentary, novels, poems and plays. As a black man and a homosexual, many of Baldwin's works focus on racial issues and the sexual liberation movement in the United States in the mid-20th century. His representative works include the novels "The Sound of the Mountain", "Giovanni's Room", "Another Country", etc.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (French: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre; June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He is one of the key figures in existential and phenomenological philosophy, and one of the leading figures in French philosophy and Marxist philosophy in the 20th century. His thoughts and theories have also influenced sociology, critical theory, postcolonial theory, and literary research. Despite attempts to refuse, he was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature. He always declined official honors, stating that "a writer should not allow himself to become an institution". Sartre is also known for his open relationship with Simone de Beauvoir, a prominent feminist, existential philosopher, and author. Together, the two challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations they had grown up with, which they considered bourgeois ways of living and thinking. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally "malice") and the "real" way of being became a major theme of Sartre's early work, a theme reflected in his major philosophical work, Being and Nothingness (French: L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre introduced his philosophical thoughts in his work "Existentialism is a Humanism". (French: L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946).

Xu Shoushang (February 4, 1883 - February 18, 1948), also known as Ji Fu, Ji Shi, Ji Fu, also known as Ji Fu, Ji Shi, Ji Fu, also known as Ji Fu, Ji Shi and Ji Fu, was a literary and historical scholar, writer, educator, classmate and best friend of Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren.

Xu Lizhi (July 28, 1990 - September 30, 2014) was a Chinese poet.

Zhu Zhixiang (1941 - September 8, 2015), pen name Haogu, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and is a writer in mainland China. His main works include "Bajie Returns to Hometown", "Black Cat Sheriff", "Black Cat Sheriff and Aliens", among which "Black Cat Sheriff" was adapted into animation and broadcast.

Nora Ephron (English: Nora Ephron, May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012) was born in New York City, New York, United States. She was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, reporter, author, and biographer. She was called "American Qiong Yao" by the Chinese media. She is best known for directing and writing romantic comedies, including "The Silkwood Incident," "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle." She sometimes co-writes with her sister Delia Ephron. The last work was "Delicious Relationship" in 2009.

Xie Liuyi (August 12, 1898 - August 8, 1945), named Guangshen, also known as Liuyi, pen names Hongtu and Lu Yu, was a Chinese writer and translator from Guiyang, Guizhou. He is considered one of the founders of journalism education in modern China.

Seamus Heaney (English: Seamus Heaney, April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator. In 1995, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poems that "have a lyrical beauty and ethical depth that sublimate the wonders of everyday life and the living past." In the early 1960s, after graduating from Queen's University Belfast, he became a lecturer there and began publishing poetry. In his later years he lived in Sandymount, Dublin. Died on August 30, 2013. Heaney was a professor at Harvard University from 1981 to 1997 and poet-in-residence from 1988 to 2006. He was also professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1989 to 1994 and received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996. He has also received other awards such as the Jeffrey Faber Memorial Award (1968), the E.M. Foster Award (1975), etc. His literary works are preserved in the National Library of Ireland.

Tan Zhengbi (1901-1991), whose courtesy name is Zhonggui and whose pen names include Tan Wen, Huo Ren, Zhao Bi, Pei Bing, and Bichang, etc., was born in Jiading, Jiangsu Province (now part of Shanghai). He is a Chinese writer and classical literature researcher. His major works include "History of the Evolution of Chinese Literature", "History of the Development of Chinese Novels", "Hua Scripts and Ancient Dramas", "Short Biographies of Six Masters of Yuan Opera", "Three Characters and Two Pai Materials" (updated version of this title "A Study on the Origin and Origin of Three Characters and Two Pai"), "An Examination of Ancient and Rare Novels", "Tanci Narratives", "Pingtan Comprehensive Examination", etc. He is also the editor-in-chief of "Outline of the History of Chinese Literature" and "New History of Chinese Literature".

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, also translated as Borges, was an Argentine writer, poet, and translator. His works cover multiple literary categories including short stories, essays, essays, poems, literary reviews, and translated literature. He is known for his timeless words and profound philosophy.

Beiling (1959-), whose real name is Huang Beiling, is a poet, writer, editor and publisher in Mainland China. The work has been translated into many languages.

Bertha von Suttner (German: Bertha von Suttner, full name Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner, June 9, 1843 - June 21, 1914), born in Prague and died in Vienna, was an Austrian novelist and radical pacifist.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский; November 11, 1821 [October 30 in the Julian calendar] - February 9, 1881 [January 28 in the Julian calendar]), a Russian writer who began writing when he was about 20 years old. His first novel "The Poor Man" was published in 1846, when he was 25 years old. Dostoevsky's important works include "Crime and Punishment" (1866), "The Idiot" (1869) and "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880). Dostoevsky wrote a total of 11 novels, 3 novellas and 17 short stories. Dostoevsky often depicts characters who live at the bottom of society but have different ideas from ordinary people, which allows him to understand the psychology of small people in the turbulent Russian society in the 19th century. Some scholars believe that he is the founder of existentialism. For example, the American philosopher Walter Arnold Kaufman once considered "Notes from the Underground" to be the first existentialist book. Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He came into contact with literature through fairy tales and legends in his early years, and also dabbled in works by Russian and other foreign authors. Dostoevsky's mother died in 1837, when Dostoevsky was only 15 years old. In the same year, he left home and entered the Nikolaev Military Engineering Institute. After graduation, he worked as an engineer, earned extra income by translating books, and briefly enjoyed a luxurious life. He published his first novel "The Poor Man" in 1846, which allowed him to enter the literary circles of St. Petersburg. In 1849, he was arrested for participating in a literary group that discussed a book that was critical of the Tsar and was later banned. He was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted at the last moment before execution. He spent four years in a Siberian prison, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. This experience had a very important impact on his soul. Later, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, published and edited some magazines, and later edited his collection "A Writer's Diary". He also began to travel to Western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which caused him financial difficulties. For a time he was in dire need of money, but he nevertheless became the most widely known and read Russian writer. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages. Dostoevsky was influenced by many philosophers and writers, including Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August

Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese: Fernando Pessoa, June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935), born in Lisbon, was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was famous for his collection of poems "The Mission" during his lifetime. He is considered the greatest Portuguese writer after Louis de Camões. Literary critic Bullen described him in his work "The Western Canon" as the poet who best represents the twentieth century along with Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda. He was ranked eighth in the 2007 poll of the greatest Portuguese.