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Zhang Henshui Zhang Henshui Writers · People's Republic of China

Zhang Henshui (May 18, 1895 - February 15, 1967), formerly known as Zhang Xinyuan, was a native of Qianshan, Anhui. He was a Chinese Chapter novelist and a representative writer of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School. He had an important influence on the history of Chinese literature and the development of vernacular in the 20th century. His works have complex plots, rigorous and complete structural layouts, and integrate traditional Chinese chapter novels with new techniques in Western novels. He is also famous for his prolific output. In his writing career of more than 50 years, he created more than 100 popular novels, most of which are medium and long chapter novels, with a total word count of nearly 20 million words, which can be regarded as a book of his own. His representative works include several novels such as "The Foreign History of Chunming", "The Golden Family", "The Cause of Crying and Laughing", "Intoxication" and "Eighty-One Dreams". "Hate the Water" is a pen name, taken from Li Yu's poem of the Southern Tang Dynasty, "Happy Meeting·The Forest Flowers Wither the Spring Red", "Since I have grown up in life, I have hated the water forever". He has a wife and two concubines.

Z Zhang Haidi Writers · People's Republic of China

Zhang Haidi (September 16, 1955 -), female, native of Wendeng, Shandong, born in Jinan, Chinese disabled writer, master of philosophy, honorary doctorate from York University. He once served as chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, and currently serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the State Council Committee on Disabled Persons, chairman of Rehabilitation International, a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the Shandong Writers Association.

Zhang Ailing Zhang Ailing Writers · United States

Zhang Ailing (September 30, 1920 - September 8, 1995), whose real name is Zhang Yong and pen name Liang Jing, is a writer born in Shanghai. From 1943 to 1945, she became famous in Shanghai literary circles. In 1952, she moved to Hong Kong and later to the United States. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, her works were rediscovered by scholars such as Xia Zhiqing, making her one of the most popular and respected writers in the Chinese-speaking world.

Xu Zhimo Xu Zhimo Writers · Qing Dynasty

Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897 - November 19, 1931), who was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province, was born in Haining, Zhejiang, and was a modern poet and essayist of the Chinese Crescent School. Xu Zhimo advocated new poetry rhythm and made great contributions to Chinese new poetry.

Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk Writers · United States

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (/ˈpɔːlənɪk/, born February 21, 1962) is an American transgressive novelist and freelance journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Fight Club" published in 1996. This novel won various awards and was later made into a movie by American director David Fincher. He lives in Portland, Oregon, United States, and has also lived in Seattle, Washington.

Give me up Give me up Writers · Republic of China

Cheng Shewo (August 28, 1898 - April 1, 1991), also known as hope Ji, also known as Han Xun, changed his name to Ping when he was admitted to National Peking University, and his pen names were Ding Yi, Yi Ding, Xiao Xiang, Baiyou, and Shewo. He was a journalist and educator of the Republic of China and enjoyed high prestige and influence in the history of Chinese journalism. A native of Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province, he was born in Nanjing. Participated in the founding of nearly 20 media and publications, attaching great importance to the cultivation of journalism talents, and founded journalism colleges in Peiping and Guilin, and in 1955 founded the World Journalism Vocational School (Genesis New University) in Taipei.

Toni Morrison Toni Morrison Writers · United States

Toni Morrison (English: Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019), formerly known as Chloe Adelina Wofford, was an African-American female writer and an important creator of African American literature and black literature. His major works include "The Bluest Eye", "Sula", "Beloved", etc. Morrison has won many literary awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy Writers · U.K.

Thomas Hardy, OM (June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928), a British writer, was born in a declining aristocratic family in the countryside.

Thomas Mann Thomas Mann Writers · germany

Paul Thomas Mann (German: Paul Thomas Mann, June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955), German writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

Mamoru Oshii Mamoru Oshii Writers · Japan

Mamoru Oshii (Japanese: Oshii Mamoru/Delicious Protect, Romanized: Oshii Mamoru, August 8, 1951 -), was born in Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Japanese animation and film director. Novelist, screenwriter, cartoonist, playwright and game designer. He also serves as a distinguished professor at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo and a visiting professor at Tokyo Keizai University. As of 2021, he lives in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Mamoru Oshii's representative works include "Fukusei Boy", "Patlabor", "Ghost in the Shell", etc. In 2004, he won the Japan SF Grand Prize for the theatrical animation "Ghost in the Shell 2: INNOCENCE".

Haruki Haruki Writers · Unknown nationality

Chunshu (1983-), whose original name is Zou Nan, is pseudonym Lin Jiafu in the book "Beijing Doll". He was born in Shandong, a contemporary Chinese writer and one of the representatives of the post-80s generation in mainland China.

Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Writers · Tibet

His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས ་འབྱུང་གནས་, January 28, 1933 - January 7, 2004 ),,Also translated as Niumai Phuntsok,1933Born in Banma County, Goluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province,Nyingma Lama,1980Founded Larung Gar Buddhist College in Serthar County。 Jigme Phuntsok was born on January 28, 1933 (January 3rd of the Year of the Water Rooster in the Tibetan calendar) into a Tibetan nomadic family in Banma County, Qinghai Province. At the age of two, he was identified as the reincarnation of Lelo Lingpa (1852–1926). When he was 14 years old, he followed Khenpo Silang Renqing and others to listen and think about the Sutras and Tantric Sutras, and began to turn the Dharma Wheel. 22Received bhikkhu ordination at age,Strictly observe the precepts。 He also practiced the Supreme Vajrayana Dharma and achieved countless signs of attainment in the perfection stage. Jigme Phuntsok is the most influential lama of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Kham.,Sodarji Khenpo、Khenpo Chicheng Lodrup、Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok came from his disciples。 In 1980, he founded Larung Gar Buddhist College in Serthar County and began the cause of promoting Dharma and benefiting living beings. Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche was also an extraordinary treasure master. He discovered many treasures in various Tibetan areas of China and parts of India. In the 1990s, he launched an anti-slaughter campaign, calling on Tibetan herders to stop selling yaks commercially to avoid mass slaughter of yaks. He passed away in Chengdu on January 7, 2004 (November 15, Water Sheep Year in the Tibetan Calendar).

C Cao Naiqian Writers · People's Republic of China

Cao Naiqian (1949-), formerly known as Cao Naitian, is a native of Mayu Village, Ying County, Shanxi Province. He is a contemporary Chinese writer who has a wide influence at home and abroad. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Japanese, Swedish and other languages.

Zeng Pu Zeng Pu Writers · Qing Dynasty

Zeng Pu (1872-1935), whose original name was Zeng Puhua, also known as Taipu, Xiaomu, Mengpu, nicknamed Mingshan, pen name The Sick Man of East Asia, was a native of Changshu, Jiangsu, and a writer from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. His representative work is the novel "Nie Haihua".

Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Writers · United States

James Mercer Langston Hughes (English: James Mercer Langston Hughes, February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the representatives of the Harlem Renaissance.

Mu Xin Mu Xin Writers · People's Republic of China

Mu Xin (February 14, 1927 - December 21, 2011), whose real name was Sun Pu, also named Yangzhong and nicknamed Muxin, was a native of Wuzhen, Zhejiang, and a Chinese painter, writer and poet. He lived in the United States for many years and returned to Wuzhen in his later years. Wuzhen now has the Mu Xin Former Residence Memorial Hall and Mu Xin Art Museum for tourists to visit.

Zhu Shuzhen Zhu Shuzhen Writers · Song Dynasty

Zhu Shuzhen (1135-1180), also known as Zhu Shuzhen and Zhu Shuzhen, also known as Youqi Jushi. His origin and life experience have been described in different ways. He was originally from Shezhou (which governs present-day Shexian County, Anhui Province). , "Sikuquanshu" identifies her as "a native of Haining, central Zhejiang", and one says she is "a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang)", female, poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, who lived around the time of Gaozong and Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Z Zhu Rangcheng Writers · Unknown nationality

Zhu Rangcheng (December 17, 1901 - January 17, 1943), whose real name was Zhu Chengxiang and whose courtesy name was Rangcheng, was born in Tunwan, Dongshan, Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He was born in Shanghai. Chinese drama director, and lover of Austrian-Jewish writer Zhu Bailan.

L Li Peifu Writers · People's Republic of China

Li Peifu (1953-), a native of Xuchang, Henan, is a contemporary Chinese writer, a member of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman (elected in 1996) and chairman (elected in 2016) of the Henan Provincial Writers Association, and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. In 2012, he published the work "Book of Life" and won the 9th Mao Dun Literature Award in 2015.

L Li Ting Writers · People's Republic of China

Li Ting (1981-) is an atmospheric science writer in mainland China, a self-media person, and a YouTuber. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan. Postdoctoral fellow in meteorology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he once worked at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served as a member of the Chinese Science Writers Association, a self-media contracted by Sina Weibo, and a member of the China Meteorological Science Popularization Committee. Li Ting has written for Science China many times and published popular science articles on Weibo, WeChat, Zhihu and other platforms. He has published nearly a hundred popular science articles on atmospheric science and meteorology, covering haze, global warming, El Niño, 24 solar terms, tornadoes, cloud classification, weather forecast and other hot meteorological issues. She has also participated in many popular science program recordings and interviews by Beijing News Broadcasting, Beijing Traffic Broadcasting, China Meteorological Channel, Beijing People's Broadcasting and other media; her popular science articles have been published and distributed on many platforms such as Guoke.com, People.com, Phoenix.com, Guangming.com, Observer.com, and Scientists. At the same time, he has given popular science lectures for the Department of Engineering Management of Tsinghua University, Friends of Nature and other institutions and social groups. The nickname "Master Tai" originated from the fact that Li Ting, who was a female doctor at the time, wrote in her first book "Martial Arts, From Niu A to Niu C" that "the female college student is Huang Rong, the female graduate student is Li Mochou, the female doctoral student is Miejie Shitai, and the female postdoctoral fellow is Dongfang Invincible." So far, she has been dubbed "Master Tai" by her fans. On Sina Weibo, she was active under the pseudonym "Big Face on Small Breasts" and has over 8 million fans. On YouTube, using the online name "Ting Jian", he has 181,000 subscribers.

Li Qingzhao Li Qingzhao Writers · Song Dynasty

Li Qingzhao (March 13, 1084 - May 12, 1155), also known as Yi Anju, also known as "Li Sanshou", was a native of Qizhou (now Jinan City, Shandong Province), a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a famous female poet in Chinese history. Together with Xin You'an, they are called "Jinan Er'an".

L Li Qianfu Writers · Yuan Dynasty

Li Qianfu, also known as Xingdao and Xingfu, was a native of Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang, Shanxi). Writer of Yuan Dynasty. In the "Ghost Recording Book", he is listed as "a man of great talent who has passed away, and who has compiled legends and spread them around the world". In "Taihe Zhengyin Pu", Lin Yingjie's 150 poems are listed as "all masterpieces". Jia Zhongming's eulogy called Li Qianfu "Jiangzhou Gaoyin" and studied behind closed doors. There is a type of drama: "Bao Dai Zhi Zhi Earning Hui Lan Ji", which is stored in "Selected Songs of the Yuan Dynasty".

L Li Li Writers · People's Republic of China

Li Li (January 20, 1961 -), born in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, later settled in Stockholm, is a Chinese poet and literary translator. Li Li studied Swedish in Beijing and went to Stockholm University in Sweden as an exchange student in 1988 to study Swedish literature. After the June 4th incident in June 1989, he decided to stay in Sweden. He won the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Award in 2008.

Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami Writers · Japan

Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist and American literary translator. Love music. He started writing at the age of 29. His first work, "Listen to the Wind", won the Japan Newcomer Award. In 1987, his fifth novel "Norwegian Wood" sold four million copies in Japan, widely triggering the "Murakami Phenomenon".