Kikuchi Kan: Quick Facts

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Mishima Yukio

Japanese author

Abe Kōbō

Japanese author

Ariyoshi Sawako

Japanese author

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

Mushanokōji Saneatsu

Japanese writer and painter

Kume Masao

Japanese author

Victor Hugo

French writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

J.M. Barrie

Scottish author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Witi Ihimaera

New Zealand author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sadeq Hedayat

Iranian author

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Polish author

Ivan Klíma

Czech author

Robertson Davies

Canadian author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian