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Maxim Gorky
Writers · russian empire
Alexey Maksimovich Pishkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков, Romanized: Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov; March 28, 1868 [March 16 in the Julian calendar] - June 18, 1936), pen name Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), the founder of socialist and realist literature and a political activist.
Marcel Proust
Writers · France
Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust (Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust; July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922), a French writer, is best known for his stream-of-consciousness work "In Search of Lost Time" published between 1913 and 1927. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Marcel Proust was born into a wealthy and educated family (his father was a professor of medicine in Paris), but he was sickly as a child and suffered from severe breathing problems caused by asthma throughout his life. At an early age he began to attend elegant salons or meet some very famous writers and artists, and during this period he was recognized as an artistic amateur. Benefitting from his family's wealth, he had no fixed career and began to write fragments of novels in 1895 (which were not published during the author's lifetime and were not collected and published until 1952 as "Jean Santeuil"). In 1900, in order to follow in the footsteps of John Ruskin's artistic works, he gave up the work at hand and began a journey from Venice to Padua. By 1907, Marcel Proust began to write his great work "In Search of Lost Time". The seven volumes of the book were published between 1913 and 1927, which means that some of the works were published after Proust's death. On November 18, 1922, Proust died haggardly due to an attack of pneumonia and bronchitis. He was later buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. There was a large number of spectators during the burial to commemorate this great writer. In later generations, Proust was regarded as a true literary myth. Proust's romantic works are a profound reflection on emotional time and memories based on art, and are also an in-depth experience of love and jealousy. Under Proust's unique gray perspective (in which homosexual thinking plays an important role), he also mixed a lot of sentimentality about failure and an empty and confused life. 《Reminiscing about the past》It is also a magnificent comedy that contains two hundred characters and is dedicated to describing human nature.。
Maya Angelou
Writers · United States
Maya·Angelou(English:Maya Angelou,pronounce: /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/,original nameMarguerite Ann Johnson;1928Year4moon4day—2014Year5moon28day),is an American writer and poet。She has published six autobiographies,five books of prose,several poetry collections,and for many plays,Worked as a screenwriter across movies and TV shows,His writing career spans more than50Year。 She has received numerous awards and more than 30 honorary doctorates. She is best known for her series of autobiographies, recounting experiences from her childhood and early adulthood. On May 28, 2014, she passed away peacefully at her home.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Writers · Peru
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis Vargas Llosa (Spanish: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (March 28, 1936 - April 13, 2025), commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian writer, critic, politician and journalist. Together with García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortázar, he was known as the "Four Leaders of the Latin American Literature Explosion". He was known as the "Master of Structural Realism" for his bizarre novel techniques and rich and profound content. Llosa was born into a wealthy single-parent family in Arequipa, Peru on March 28, 1936. When he was 1 year old, he moved with his mother's family to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he spent nearly ten years of his childhood. After returning to China in 1946, Llosa's parents remarried and settled in Lima. From 1950 to 1951, Llosa was sent to Leoncio Prado Military School by his father. He developed writing ambitions due to the depressive campus life. From 1953 to 1958, Llosa studied literature and law at the National University of San Marcos, and fell in love with his aunt Julia Urquidi, whom he married for nine years. In 1958, Llosa won an award for his short story "The Challenge" and was able to travel to France. From 1958 to 1960, Llosa studied at the Central University of Madrid. In 1963, Llosa's first novel "The City and the Dog" was published, and immediately won the Castilian Narrative Literature Critics Award the following year. After 1964, because he fell in love with his cousin Patricia, Llosa wrote a letter asking his wife to divorce him, and he married Patricia for 50 years. In 1966, Llosa's second novel "Green House" was published, which brought him the Castilian Narrative Literature Critics Award (1966), the Peruvian National Novel Award (1967) and the first Romulo Gallegos Award (1967). In 1970, Llosa's most proud work "Long Talk in the Bar" was published. The book used various techniques to depict the chaos under the military dictatorship. In 1976, Llosa became the first Latino president of PEN International. Llosa supported socialist ideas in his early years, but later turned to the right and became a liberal. In 1987, Llosa returned to Peru, formed the Democratic Front, and was elected chairman of the party. In the 1990 Peruvian general election, the center-right Llosa competed with the right-wing Alberto Fujimori.
L Luo Binji Writers · People's Republic of ChinaLuo Binji (1917-1994), formerly known as Zhang Pujun, his nickname is Yewen Yanmingzhai, male, his ancestral home is Pingdu, Shandong, born in Hunchun, Jilin, a writer in the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, and a member of the Communist Party of China.
Gao Keyi (May 29, 1912 - March 1, 2008), a native of Jiangning, Jiangsu, whose pen name is George Kao, is a well-known writer, translator, and journalist.
Gao Xingjian
Writers · People's Republic of China
Gao Xingjian (January 4, 1940 -), born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, is a French-Chinese playwright, novelist, painter, drama and film director, and photographer. He went to Europe in the late 1980s and is now a French citizen. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature for "opening up new paths for Chinese novels and art dramas." He was also a translator, especially of the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionescu. The stream-of-consciousness works and the consciousness of exile in it have greatly inspired other writers.
Rudyard Kipling
Writers · U.K.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (English: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936), also translated as Kipling or Kipling, was born in Bombay, India, and was a British writer, journalist and poet. His major works include the children's story "The Jungle Book" (1894), the detective novel "Kim" (1901), the poetry collection "Gunga Din" (1892), the short poem "If—" (1895), and many popular short stories. He was a very popular British prose writer from the 19th to the 20th century, and was known as "the innovator in the art of short stories." He is also regarded as a representative writer of British imperial literature in the 19th century. Kipling's works had an impact on the world literary world in the early 20th century, and he himself won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He is the first British and youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (42 years old). In addition, he was offered a British knighthood and the title of British Poet Laureate, but he declined both. Because Kipling lived in an era when European colonial powers were frantically expanding to other countries, some of his works were also accused of being obviously imperialistic and racist. People have long held different opinions on him and are extremely contradictory. The literary images in his works are often both loyal and patriotic and adhering to tradition, but also representative of barbarism and aggression.
Boris Pasternak
Writers · russian empire
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Борис Леонидович Пастернак, Romanized: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (February 10, 1890 - May 30, 1960), Soviet writer, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, famous for his novel "Doctor Zhivago" (translation: "Doctor Zhivago").
Lu Xun
Writers · Qing Dynasty
Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936), whose original name was Zhou Zhangshou, also had the courtesy names of Yushan and Yuting, later changed to the pseudonym of Henan, and his pen name was Lu Xun. He was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and was one of the modern Chinese writers, designers, and leaders of the New Culture Movement. During his lifetime, Lu Xun created essays, short novels, literature, thought and social commentary, academic works, natural science works, collation and research of ancient classics, essays, modern prose poems, old-style poems, foreign literature and academic translations, and research on woodcut prints, which had a great impact on Chinese society and culture after the May Fourth Movement.