Futabatei Shimei: Quick Facts

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Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Nina Berberova

Russian-American writer

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese courtier and author

Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

Japanese writer

Mori Ōgai

Japanese author

Ernest F. Fenollosa

American orientalist and art critic

Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov

Russian writer

Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Russian poet

Arthur David Waley

British translator

Klabund

German writer

Hviezdoslav

Slovak poet

Constance Garnett

English translator

Haruki Murakami

Japanese author

Endō Shūsaku

Japanese author

Mishima Yukio

Japanese author

Ishihara Shintarō

Japanese writer and politician

Ōoka Shōhei

Japanese author