Writers

Anthony Michael Bourdain (June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018) was an American chef, author and television host born in New York City. Bourdain became famous as the author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Deep. Before his death, he hosted the program "Anthony Bourdain: The Unknown" on CNN. From 2013 to 2016, he won an Emmy Award for this program every year. The same show also won a Peabody Award in 2014.

Anna Andreevna Gorenko (Russian: Анна Андреевна Горенко) ; June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966), pen name Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), a Russian Ukrainian female poet, one of the representatives of the "Silver Age", known as the "Moon of Russian Poetry" (Pushkin was once known as the "Sun of Russian Poetry"), suffered persecution during the Great Purge and the 1946 Zhdanov Criticism.

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: André Paul Guillaume Gide French pronunciation: [ɑdʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid], November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951), French writer, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature. Gide's early literature was characterized by symbolism, which gradually developed into anti-imperialist ideas until the interwar period. Gide was good at writing fiction and autobiography. In his words, he revealed the two sides of his personality that were split by his conservative education and narrow social moralism: conflict and ultimate harmony. His works depict freedom and empowerment under strict moral constraints, and you can feel his continuous and honest efforts in the pursuit of knowledge. His self-exploratory writing reflects his thoughts on how to become fully himself, including embracing one's gender essence without betraying one's personal values. Gide's political activities were affected by the social trends of the time; he traveled to the Soviet Union in 1936 and declared his abandonment of communism.

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer. Born in Tacoma, Washington, died in Madison, Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Washington. "Dragon in the Sea" was published in 1960. His most important works include the 1965 novel "Dune" and five sequels: Dune (1965) Dune Messiah (1969) Children of Dune (1976) God Emperor of Dune (1981) Heretics of Dune (1984) Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

Eugene O'Neill (English: Eugene O'Neill, October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953), a famous American playwright and a representative writer of Expressionist literature. His major works include "Emperor Jones", "The Hairy Ape", "Beyond the Horizon", "Mourning", etc. He was the winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature and the only playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol-Yanovsky (Russian: Николай Васильевич Гоголь-Яновский, Romanized: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol-Yanovskiy; April 1, 1809 - March 4, 1852), a Ukrainian-Russian writer, was born into a Cossack family in what is now Veliky Sorochintsi, Ukraine. He was fond of literature since childhood and was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment Movement. He was praised by Alexander Pushkin for his "Nights in the Countryside of Dekonka" published in 1831. In 1836, his satirical comedy "The Imperial Envoy" was staged. In this work, he used humorous writing and powerful satirical techniques, which brought about a major turning point in Russian comedy art. When "Dead Souls" was published in 1842, it "shocked the whole of Russia" and became an important symbol of the originality and national character of Russian literature. Belinsky called him the "leader of the literary world" and "the leader of poets" after Alexander Pushkin. The entire 1840s was also called the "Gogol period" by Chernyshevsky. In 1847, he published "Selected Letters to Friends", publicly expressing his repentance for all his previous works. He died in 1852 of severe Orthodox fanaticism. Gogol is one of the founders of Russian realist literature and the founder of "Naturalism".

Nicholas Sparks (English: Nicholas Sparks, December 31, 1965 -) is an international best-selling author, American novelist and film screenwriter. He has published 18 novels on themes including Christian faith, love, tragedy and destiny. Eight of them have been made into movies, including "Message in a Bottle", "Keep a Love", "Letter of Love", "Nights in Rodanza", "The Last Love Letter", "The Most Beautiful Miss (Novel)", "The Last Song", "Lucky Charm" and "Love Haven".

Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant (pronounced: [ɡid(ə) mopasɑə], August 5, 1850 - July 6, 1893) was a 19th-century French novelist and writer. His works were mainly short stories and he was known as the "King of Short Stories". His famous works include "The Necklace", "Ball of Suet", "Fairy Friends", etc.

Kawakami Mieko (Japanese: Kawakami Mieko/Kakami Mieko, Romanized: Kawakami Mieko, August 29, 1976 -), whose real name is Kawakami Saneko (Kawakami Saneko, pronounced the same as Kawakami Mieko), is a Japanese novelist, singer and actor.

Kawabata Yasunari (Japanese: Kawabata Yasunari/Kawabata Easy, Romanized: Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972), a world-renowned Japanese neo-sensationalist writer and literary critic, active from the Taisho to Showa years. Kawabata Yasunari was recommended for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times in the 1960s. In 1968, he became the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner and the second Asian writer to win the prize after Rabindranath Tagore. Kawabata Yasunari was born in Osaka Prefecture and graduated from the Japanese Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University. In college, he was appreciated by Hiroshi Kikuchi and emerged in the fields of literary criticism. Later, he co-founded the doujinshi "Literary Times" with Yokomitsu Riichi and others. He combined Western European avant-garde literature to create works known as New Sensation Literature, and attracted attention as a "New Sensationist" writer. His works are of various types, with different techniques and styles, including poetry, lyrical articles, mystical works, girls' novels, etc., so he is also called a magician. Since then, he has created works that express the "beauty of Japan" in death and reincarnation, fusion of renga and avant-garde works, etc. These works show his concern for themes such as traditional beauty and the devilish world. He has a very thorough understanding of the ugliness and ruthlessness of human nature, as well as the loneliness and despair of people. He left many masterpieces in the history of Japanese literature, which established his unshakable position as the highest peak of Japanese literature. As the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, he introduced the Japanese view of life and death and aesthetic consciousness to the world in his acceptance speech.

Zuo Si (about 250-305), courtesy name Taichong, was a native of Linzi (now Zibo, Shandong) and a writer of the Western Jin Dynasty. He was the most outstanding writer in the Taikang period, and his "Sandu Fu" was highly praised at the time, making him "Luoyang Paper Expensive".

Honoré de Balzac (French: Honoré de Balzac, May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a 19th-century French novelist, playwright, critic and journalist, and the founder of European realist literature. He created "Human Comedy", a total of 91 long, medium and short stories and essays of various genres, and wrote more than 2,400 characters. It is known as the "encyclopedia" of French society.

Shi Tao (July 25, 1968 -), male, originally from Qingjian, Shaanxi, was born in Yanchi, Ningxia. He is a Chinese journalist, poet, and writer. In 2005, he was charged by the Chinese government with leaking state secrets and sentenced to ten years in prison for sending a government document to an overseas website through Yahoo mailbox. He was released on August 23, 2013.

Kurt Vonnegut (English: Kurt Vonnegut, November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007, also known as Vonnegut and Vonnegut), an American writer and one of the representatives of black humor literature.

Shikitei Sanba (Japanese: Shikitei Sanma/custom Sanba, Romanized: Shikitei Sanba; 1776-February 27, 1822), whose real name was Taisuke Kikuchi and whose courtesy name was Kutoku. A Japanese writer and ukiyo-e painter in the late Edo period, he and Shikasha Ichiku are known as the two major writers of comic books in Japan. Their representative works include the comic books "Ukiyo Bathhouse" and "Ukiyo Barber Shop".

Virginia Woolf, a British writer, is considered a pioneer of realist literature, stream-of-consciousness literature and feminist literature in the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century, she was a central figure in London's literary scene and a member of the Bloomsbury Circle. The most famous novels include "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse", "Orlando", "The Waves", the essay "A Room of One's Own", etc.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков) Nabokov; April 23, 1899 - July 2, 1977), a 20th-century Russian-American novelist, literary critic, translator, poet, chess enthusiast and entomologist. Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, in 1899. During his exile, he wrote a large number of Russian novels (including "The Gift"), but what really made him famous was "Lolita", which he completed the first draft in English in 1955 (it was translated into Russian by himself ten years later). "Lolita" became famous in the twentieth century and became famous in the literary world. Nabokov's subsequent English novels (such as "Pnin", "Dark Fire", "Ada or Eros: A Family Chronicle", etc.) fully demonstrate his love for wording and detailed description.

François Mauriac (French: [fʁɑəswa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; October 11, 1885 – September 1, 1970) was a French novelist, playwright, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the French Academy of Letters (since 1933), and winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor in 1958. Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France, and graduated from the Department of Literature at the University of Bordeaux in 1905. His main works include the poetry collection "Handshake" and the novel "The Desert of Love".

Franz Kafka, a German-language novelist and short story writer born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is hailed by critics as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, American novelist and essayist. Known for depicting the glitz of the Jazz Age. His success was only brief in the 1920s, but he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805) was a German writer, philosopher, historian and playwright in the 18th century. He was a representative figure of German Enlightenment literature and the "Sturm und Drang" movement. He is considered to be a classical writer second only to Goethe in the history of German literature.

Frédéric Mistral (French: Frédéric Mistral, September 8, 1830 - March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the Occitan (Provence) literary revival in the 19th century. He shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904 with José Echegaray. He was a good friend of Dode, who got to know him when he was young and wrote an essay for him called "The Poet Mistral", which was included in the "Mill Letters". Mistral devoted himself to the work of restoring and promoting the Provençal language in terms of poetry creation and language organization. In 1854, seven enthusiastic researchers of Provence, including Mistral and Romani, initiated the establishment of the "Philibrig" association, which specialized in promoting, publicizing and studying the language, customs and culture of Provence. At the same time, Mistral also participated in the editing work of "Selected Poems of Provence". On the basis of collecting and sorting out a large amount of local folklore, mythology, customs, language history and other materials, Mistral spent eight years compiling the "New Provence Dictionary". This dictionary not only records the treasures of Provence, but also builds an immortal monument to the Occitan language. Mistral's contribution to Provence culture lies not only in his discovery and organization of Provençal dialects and traditions, but also in his poems written in Provence, which raised this dialect to the level of literary language and broadcast Provence culture to Europe in the form of art.

Zhang Yunhe (July 25, 1909 - August 14, 2002), born in Hefei, Anhui, is a Chinese Kun Opera researcher. Her husband is Zhou Youguang, a Chinese philologist.

Zhang Jianhong (also known as "Lihong", March 6, 1958 - December 31, 2010), a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, is a famous poet, writer and human rights activist. He was awarded the 2008 Democracy Award and was an honorary member of PEN America and PEN Australia Melbourne. In 2007, the court sentenced him to six years in prison and deprivation of political rights for one year for inciting subversion of state power. In 2007, he was diagnosed with ALS in prison, and the authorities have always rejected his application for medical parole. In June 2010, his condition became critical and he was allowed to be released on medical parole. He was unable to be cured and died on December 31, 2010 at the age of 52.