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Born	January 31, 1935 • Ehime • Japan
Died	March 3, 2023 (aged 88)
Awards And Honors	Akutagawa Prize • Nobel Prize (1994)
Notable Works	“A Personal Matter” • “Atarashii hito yo meza meyo” • “Death by Water” • “Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids” • “In reito sutairu” • “The Changeling” • “The Silent Cry”

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanese-British author

Kawabata Yasunari, 1968.

Kawabata Yasunari

Japanese author

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Japanese author

Masamune Hakuchō.

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian author

Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Canadian author

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Mo Yan

Mo Yan

Chinese author

José Saramago

José Saramago

Portuguese author

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish author

Bunin

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet