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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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Japanese writer
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Ōe Kenzaburō
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Isaac Asimov
American author
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Isabel Allende
Chilean-American author
Patricia Grace
New Zealand writer
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
British author and critic
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
British author
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
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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George MacDonald Fraser
British writer
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Mishima Yukio
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