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Consorcio Borje

Consorcio Borje (1912-1981) won the 1941 Commonwealth Award for Literature for his collection of 47 short stories, The Automobile Comes to Town. His book was never published because WWII came and the manuscript was lost.

Work 1. The Automobile Comes to Town

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Estrella D. Alfon Estrella D. Alfon (1917-1983), a prolific writer from Cebu City, only managed to get an A.A. degree from U.P. because of poor health. A member of the U.P. Writers Club, she held the National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center in 1979.

Work 1. Fairy Tale for the City

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Paz Marquez Benitez

Paz Marquez Benitez (1894-1983) only had one more published short story after “Dead Stars.” Nevertheless, she made her mark in Philippine literature because her work is considered the first modern Philippine short story.

Work 1. Dead Star 2. A Night In The Hills

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Eiichiro Oda

Eiichiro Oda (born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece. His drawing style is notable for its originality and has influenced Hiro Mashima

Work 1. One Piece

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Noriaki Kubo

Noriaki Kubo (born June 26, 1977), known by his pen name Tite Kubo is a Japanese manga artist. His most significant work is the manga series Bleach.

Work 1. Bleach

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Seishi Kishimoto

Seishi Kishimoto (born November 8, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist and the younger twin brother of Masashi Kishimoto (creator of Naruto). The two have been drawing manga together since early childhood, thus their styles are similar. As a result, each of them has frequently been accused of copying the other. Seishi himself notes that the similarities are not intentional but are likely because they were both influenced by many of the same things. The more famous Masashi even asked fans to stop calling Seishi a "copycat. Seishi created the manga 666 Satan, which was serialized in Japan by Monthly Shōnen Gangan and licensed by VIZ in North America as O-Parts Hunter. It has been announced that he will launch a new manga titled Blazer Driver in the upcoming Monthly.

Work 1. 666 Satan Up Coming Work 2. Blazer Driver

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Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto (born 8 November, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist, most well known for creating the manga series Naruto. His younger twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of the manga series.

Work 1. Naruto

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Kei Kusunoki

Kei Kusunoki ( Born March 24, 1966), real name Mayumi Ōhashi, is a Japanese manga artist best known for her horror and comedy manga series. She debuted in 1982 in Ribon Original with Nanika ga Kanojo Tōri Tsuita? Her twin-sister Kaoru Ōhashi also works as a manga artist. Their styles are quite similar.

Works 1. Bitter Virgin 2. Girls Saurus 3. Onikirimaru

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Rogelio R. Sikat

Rogelio R. Sikat (also known as Rogelio Sícat) (1940-1997) is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. Born and raised in San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the University of Santo Tomas and an M.A. in Filipino from the University of the Philippines.

Work 1. Impeng Negro

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James Arthur Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924–November 30, 1987) was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as for the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved

Work 1. 2. 3. 4.

Go Tell It on the Mountain Giovanni's Room Another Country Going to Meet the Man

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Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995) was an American author, social activist, and college professor. Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939. She grew up in Harlem, Manhattan, Brooklyn, New York, and Jersey City, New Jersey. She attended schools in New York City and the southern United States. She changed her name to Toni while in kindergarten, and in 1970 added "Bambara" when she learned that her grandmother had taken that name as well.

Work 1. Gorilla, My Love (1972) 2. The Sea Birds Are Still Alive (1977) 3. Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (1996) 4. The Lesson (1972) 5. Raymond's Run 6. The war of the wall

a Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin was born on September 9, 1868 in Carlinville, Illinois and died on August 13, 1935 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (the fourth of six children) to George and Susannah (Graham) Hunter. She graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. For 17 years she made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, and her publications set forth the intimate knowledge she thus acquired. She was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist and defender of Native American and SpanishAmerican rights. She is best known for her tribute to the deserts of the American Southwest.

Work 1. The Land of Little Rain.

a María Amparo Ruiz

María Amparo Ruiz was born in Loreto, Baja California on July 3, 1832 to an aristocratic family. Her grandfather Don Jose Manuel Ruiz was a Commander of the Mexican northern frontier in Baja California and later governor of the region from 1822 to 1825. Due to his outstanding work in the services, Don Jose Manuel received two sites of over 3,500 hectares of land in the Ensanada region. This land became very important for the Ruiz family for Ruiz de Burton's entire life. Then many years later, Francisco Ruiz, her great-uncle, was a commandate in San Diego. When Ruiz de Burton's family moved to the United States, they settled in San Diego where they had the most family ties. While living in San Diego, Ruiz de Burton had an English tutor by the name of Mariano Vallejo who taught her the basics of being a writer.

Work 1. The Squatter and the Don 2. Don Quixote de la Mancha

a Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity.

Work 1. Sis Becky's Pickaninny 2. The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt 3. Hot-Foot Hannibal

p Loreto Paras-Sulit

Loreto Paras-Sulit (December 10, 1908 — April 23, 2008) was a Filipino writer best known for her English-language short stories Paras-Sulit would join the faculty of Torres High School as an English teacher while maintaining an active writing career. She was a member of the Philippine Writers Association and the Literary Guild of the Philippines. In the 1940s, she joined the Philippine National Red Cross, of which she served as secretarygeneral for several decades. While at the Red Cross, she shifted her focus to short stories for children, publishing several works of that variety at the Philippine Junior Red Cross Magazine.

Work 1. .In Fragrance (1934) 2. Three Women (1937) 3. Innkeeper's Daughter

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Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter born October 26, 1954 is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and novelist. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1982. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1976 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. After graduation, Carter clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Carter was raised in Ithaca, New York. He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay "The Best Black" is based on his experiences there. At IHS, he was the editor-in-chief of The Tattler and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board. In 2003 Carter received an honorary LL.D. from Bates College.

Work 1. New England White (2007) 2. Palace Council

p Edith L. Tiempo

Edith L. Tiempo (born April 22, 1919 in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya), poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic is one of the finest Filipino Writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight. Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound.

Work 1. Lament for the Littlest Fellow 2. Bonsai

j Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a Japanese manga artist most known for his manga Groove Adventure Rave, published by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, from 1999 to 2005. The series was later adapted into an anime. However, the anime adaption was cancelled before it could complete the series.

Work 1. Fairy Tail. 2. Monster soul. 3. Monster hunter orage.

k Kim Young-oh

Kim Young-oh (b. April 19, 1976) is a South Korean manhwa writer and illustrator. Kim is responsible for creating the Banya stories of Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man (Pok Ju Baedal Bu Banya) of which there are five volumes. Originally highly successful in South Korea, they tell of the adventures of Banya, a speedy, wild and savvy teen-age hero working for the Gaya Desert Post Office with its motto "Fast. Precise. Secure." with all the romance of the unstoppable pony express of the American wild west.

Work 1. The Explosive Delivery Man

k Youn In-wan

Youn In-wan (Yun In-hwan) (born July 27, 1976) is a South Korean Manhwa writer. In Japan, he is known for his work of Blade of the Phantom Master. His previous work was on the manhwa Island together with illustrator

Work 1. Blade of the Phantom Master 2. Island

k Rhim Ju-yeon

Rhim Ju-yeon (born April 9, 1976) is a comics writer from South Korea, the creator of the manhwa President Dad and Devil's Bride. Rhim debuted in 1999 after she won an accessit from the fourth Manwha contest held by "ISSUE", a manwha magazine for girls' readers.

Work 1. President bad 2. Devil bride

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Richard A. Knaak

Richard A. Knaak (born 28 May 1961) is the bestselling author of Dragonlance novels, Dragonrealm (his own creation), six novels for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, and six works in the Warcraft universe. He has also written five non-series fantasy books.

Work 1. Dragon lance 2. Dragon realm

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Lee Myung-jin

Lee Myung-jin (was born in Korea in 1974) is one of the most famous Korean manhwa artists in the world. His most famous work, Ragnarok, was adapted into the game Ragnarok Online by Gravity Corp. This game was later turned into an anime.

Work 1. ragnarok

k Hyung Min-woo

Hyung Min-woo (b. 1974-04-14) is a South Korean manhwa artist best known for Pries

Work 1. Princess

i Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri (born Nilanjana Sudeshna on 11 July 1967) is an American author of Bengali Indian descent. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name.

Work 1. The namesake 2. Hell-Heaven 3. Once In A Lifetime

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born as Nathaniel Hathorne in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Later, he would change his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1825; his classmates included future president Franklin Pierce and future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828.

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1. Twice-Told Tales 2. Tanglewood Tales 3. Mosses from an Old Manse

nz Kathleen Mansfield Murry Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Work 1. The Woman At The Store 2. Millie 3. Mr Reginald Peacock's Day"

Scotland

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850–3 December 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov and J. M. Barrie.

Work 1. The Black Arrow 2. Prince Otto 3. Treasure Island

United States

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres.

Work 1. The Wind's Twelve Quarters 2. Orsinian Tales 3. The Compass Rose

England

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

Work 1. The Voyage Out 2. Night and Day 3. Jacob's Room