Haruki Murakami

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Born	January 12, 1949 (age 76) • Kyōto • Japan
Notable Works	“1Q84” • “After Dark” • “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” • “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” • “The Elephant Vanishes” • “First Person Singular” • “Kafka on the Shore” • “Hear the Wind Sing” • “Men Without Women” • “Sputnik Sweetheart”

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Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor, director, writer, and television personality

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Uno Chiyo

Japanese writer

Inoue Yasushi

Japanese writer

Ōe Kenzaburō

Ōe Kenzaburō

Japanese writer

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

American author

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Chilean-American author

Patricia Grace

New Zealand writer

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

British author

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

British author and critic

Klíma, Ivan

Ivan Klíma

Czech author

Penelope Lively

British author

Jessamyn West

American writer

Hazzard, Shirley

Shirley Hazzard

American author

Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

American author

Isak Dinesen, 1959

Isak Dinesen

Danish author

Nayantara Sahgal

Indian journalist and author

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

American author

George MacDonald Fraser

British writer

Mishima Yukio

Mishima Yukio

Japanese author