Uno Chiyo: Quick Facts

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Haruki Murakami

Japanese author

Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor and director

Kawabata Yasunari

Japanese author

Shiga Naoya

Japanese writer

Inoue Yasushi

Japanese writer

Yokomitsu Riichi

Japanese writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Mark Twain

American writer

Joyce Carol Oates

American author

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Edwidge Danticat

Haitian American author

Samuel R. Delany

American author and critic

Brendan Behan

Irish author

Frederik Pohl

American author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

James Michener

American author

Jessamyn West

American writer

William Plomer

South African writer

Kamala Das

Indian author

Timothy Findley

Canadian author