Tayama Katai: Quick Facts

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Theodore Dreiser

American author

Ishihara Shintarō

Japanese writer and politician

Ōoka Shōhei

Japanese author

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Arishima Takeo

Japanese writer

Banana Yoshimoto

Japanese writer

Uno Chiyo

Japanese writer

Kawabata Yasunari

Japanese author

Noma Hiroshi

Japanese author

Natsume Sōseki

Japanese novelist

Tokutomi Roka

Japanese author

Shimazaki Tōson

Japanese author

Tokuda Shūsei

Japanese novelist

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

George Orwell

British author

Jack Kerouac

American writer

Marcel Proust

French writer

James Baldwin

American author

Khushwant Singh

Indian writer