Novelist 606 profiles

606 profiles in this database, most often novelist, writer, screenwriter. They include Yukio Mishima, Shintarō Ishihara, Naoki Hyakuta, Makoto Shinkai, Haruki Murakami. Every profile lists birth date, background, career highlights and an honest "My Take".

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Yukio Mishima

三島由紀夫

Writer from Japan

Shintarō Ishihara

石原慎太郎

Politician from Japan

Naoki Hyakuta

百田尚樹

Osaka-born bestselling novelist and broadcast writer

Makoto Shinkai

新海誠

Japanese anime film director, screenwriter, and novelist

Haruki Murakami

村上春樹

Japanese novelist, translator, and essayist

Kazumi Takayama

高山一実

Tarento from Japan

Yoshiyuki Tomino

富野由悠季

Creator of Mobile Suit Gundam and pioneer of the real-robot anime genre

Yuzuki Muroi

室井佑月

Novelist from Japan

Mamoru Oshii

押井守

Visionary anime director behind Ghost in the Shell

Rena Matsui

松井玲奈

Actor from Japan

Shigeharu Aoyama

青山繁晴

Novelist from Japan

Sion Sono

園子温

Actor from Japan

Gekidan Hitori

劇団ひとり

Multifaceted Japanese comedian, actor, novelist, and film director

Yasutaka Tsutsui

筒井康隆

Pioneering Japanese science fiction and satirical novelist

Ryūhō Ōkawa

大川隆法

Religious leader from Japan

Risa Wataya

綿矢りさ

Writer from Japan

Kazuo Ishiguro

カズオ・イシグロ

British Nobel novelist born in Nagasaki

Jun Miura

みうらじゅん

Japanese illustrator and manga artist who coined "my boom"

Ryu Murakami

村上龍

Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist, filmmaker, and television host

Masanori Hata

畑正憲

Japanese zoologist and essayist known as Mutsugorō

Yukihide Takekawa

タケカワユキヒデ

Japanese singer-songwriter and lead vocalist of Godiego

Hitonari Tsuji

辻仁成

Poet from Japan

Yasuo Tanaka

田中康夫

Novelist turned Governor of Nagano Prefecture

Seikō Itō

いとうせいこう

Japanese rapper, novelist and TV personality

Kōbō Abe

安部公房

Pioneering Japanese novelist and playwright known for surrealist, existential fiction

Sayaka Murata

村田沙耶香

Japanese novelist, author of Convenience Store Woman

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

安彦良和

Japanese animator and manga artist of Gundam

Ethan Hawke

イーサン・ホーク

American actor, author and filmmaker

J. K. Rowling

J・K・ローリング

Novelist from United Kingdom

Ivana Trump

イヴァナ・トランプ

Czech-American businesswoman, ex-wife of Donald Trump

Jūrō Kara

唐十郎

Japanese Angura playwright and director

Yukio Aoshima

青島幸男

Governor of Tokyo and lyricist of "Sudara Bushi"

Saori

Saori

Japanese keyboardist of SEKAI NO OWARI

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ジャン＝ジャック・ルソー

Genevan philosopher of The Social Contract

Guillermo del Toro

ギレルモ・デル・トロ

Mexican director of The Shape of Water

Carrie Fisher

キャリー・フィッシャー

American actress, Princess Leia in Star Wars

Keiichiro Hirano

平野啓一郎

Japanese novelist, Akutagawa Prize winner at 23

Gene Hackman

ジーン・ハックマン

American actor of The French Connection

Sakutarō Hagiwara

萩原朔太郎

Japanese poet, father of modern colloquial verse

Hiroshi Aramata

荒俣宏

Japanese author of Teito Monogatari

Banana Yoshimoto

吉本ばなな

Japanese novelist of Kitchen

Issey Ogata

イッセー尾形

Japanese actor of one-man shows

Albert Camus

アルベール・カミュ

French author of The Stranger, Nobel laureate

Andy Weir

アンディ・ウィアー

American software developer

Ayako Fujitani

藤谷文子

Actor from Japan

Haruko Ōta

太田治子

Japanese writer, daughter of Osamu Dazai

Sessue Hayakawa

早川雪洲

Actor from Japan

Han Kang

韓江

Writer from South Korea

Sanjugo Naoki

直木三十五

Japanese author and filmmaker whose name lives on in Japan's Naoki Prize for popular fiction

Yoko Tawada

多和田葉子

Bilingual novelist writing at the intersection of Japanese and German literature

Richard Dreyfuss

リチャード・ドレイファス

American actor

Dan Brown

ダン・ブラウン

American writer

Gabriel García Márquez

ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス

Novelist from Colombia

Shoko Ieda

家田荘子

Japanese nonfiction novelist and Ooya Soichi Prize winner

Shino Sakuragi

桜木紫乃

Hokkaido-born novelist and poet, winner of two major Japanese literary prizes

Kyohei Sakaguchi

坂口恭平

Multi-disciplinary architect, novelist, and photographer from Kumamoto

Soji Shimada

島田荘司

Grandmaster of Japanese honkaku mystery fiction

Anton Chekhov

アントン・チェーホフ

Physician from Russia

Alex Garland

アレックス・ガーランド

Writer from United Kingdom

Kazuki Sakuraba

桜庭一樹

Japanese novelist who bridged light fiction and literary prize recognition

Wahei Tatematsu

立松和平

Japanese novelist known for spiritually rooted literary fiction

Simone de Beauvoir

シモーヌ・ド・ボーヴォワール

Political philosopher from France

Salman Rushdie

サルマン・ラシュディ

Writer from India

George Sand

ジョルジュ・サンド

Writer from France

Tom Clancy

トム・クランシー

American writer

Carl Sagan

カール・セーガン

American cosmologist

Masuo Ikeda

池田満寿夫

Multidisciplinary Japanese artist and Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist

Miako Tadano

唯野未歩子

Tokyo-born multihyphenate: actress, novelist, screenwriter, and director

Mario Vargas Llosa

マリオ・バルガス・リョサ

Novelist from Peru

Paul Auster

ポール・オースター

American screenwriter

Hiromi Itō

伊藤比呂美

Award-winning Japanese poet and novelist

André Gide

アンドレ・ジッド

Journalist from France

William Gibson

ウィリアム・ギブスン

American writer

Novala Takemoto

嶽本野ばら

Kyoto-born novelist and fashion designer known for Gothic Lolita aesthetics

Anna Ogino

荻野アンナ

Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist, rakugo performer, and Keio University professor

Nao-cola Yamazaki

山崎ナオコーラ

Award-winning Japanese novelist and essayist known for bold, intimate prose

Shichiro Fukazawa

深沢七郎

Japanese novelist, screenwriter, and guitarist

Françoise Sagan

フランソワーズ・サガン

Playwright from France

Isla Fisher

アイラ・フィッシャー

Actor from Oman

Robert Louis Stevenson

ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソン

Poet from United Kingdom

Jeffery Deaver

ジェフリー・ディーヴァー

American writer

Romain Rolland

ロマン・ロラン

Writer from France

George R. R. Martin

ジョージ・R・R・マーティン

American writer

Katsura Morimura

森村桂

Japanese novelist and author

John le Carré

ジョン・ル・カレ

Novelist from United Kingdom

Charles Bukowski

チャールズ・ブコウスキー

Actor from Germany

Patricia Cornwell

パトリシア・コーンウェル

American writer

Darren O'Shaughnessy

ダレン・シャン

Writer from United Kingdom

Akira Higashiyama

東山彰良

Novelist

Jin Yong

金庸

Writer from People's Republic of China

Leonard Cohen

レナード・コーエン

Singer-songwriter from Canada

Marguerite Duras

マルグリット・デュラス

Writer from French Indochina

Jonathan Swift

ジョナサン・スウィフト

Irish satirist and poet

Mark Gatiss

マーク・ゲイティス

Actor from United Kingdom

Ted Chiang

テッド・チャン

American author

Lauren Weisberger

ローレン・ワイズバーガー

American writer

MacKenzie Scott

マッケンジー・スコット

American novelist

Michel Houellebecq

ミシェル・ウエルベック

Poet from France

Erich Kästner

エーリッヒ・ケストナー

Writer from Germany

Andrew Robinson

アンドリュー・ロビンソン

American television actor

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