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Also Known As	Deng Xiaohua
Born	1953 (age 73) • Changsha • China
Notable Works	“Barefoot Doctor” • “Five Spice Street” • “Frontier” • “I Live in the Slums” • “Love in the New Millennium” • “Mother River” • “Enchanting Lives of Others, The” • “The Last Lover” • “Yellow Mud Street”

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Chinese author Mo Yan

Mo Yan

Chinese author

Portrait of writer Zhang Ailing, also known as Eileen Chang, wearing a patterned silk jacket and round earrings, looking slightly upward.

Zhang Ailing

Chinese writer

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Baren

Chinese author and critic

Joyce Carol Oates, 2012

Joyce Carol Oates

American author

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

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Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

American author and critic

A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt

British scholar, literary critic, and novelist

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William H. Gass

American author

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Frederick Busch

American author and critic

Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin

Chinese author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

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Ding Ling

Chinese author

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Lao She

Chinese author

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Qian Zhongshu

Chinese scholar and author

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Shen Congwen

Chinese author

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Ye Shengtao

Chinese author

Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian

Chinese author and critic

Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang

Chinese author

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Zhang Tianyi

Chinese author