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Ha Jin
Ha Jin (born 1956)

poet

  • Heilongjiang University, Brandeis University

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War trash
Nanjing requiem
Nanjing requiem
Nanjing requiem
Waiting
In the Pond
Ocean of Words
The Bridegroom
The Best American Short Stories 1997
A Free Life
The Crazed
A good fall
A map of betrayal
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Under the Red Flag
Wreckage
LA Espera
The writer as migrant
Facing shadows
A Free Life (Vintage International)
The boat rocker
Crazed, The
War Trash ("Zhan Fei Pin", in Traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
Between silences
Ocean of Words:Army Stories
Warten
Deng dai =
Nanjing an hun qu
Ein schlechter Scherz. Roman
A distant center
The crazed
War trash
Zai ta xiang xie zuo
En El Estanque
La Longue Attente
Guang tian hua ri-xiang cun de gu shi ('Under the Red Flag' in Traditional Chinese Characters)
Zhe teng dao di
Qiṣāṣ al-kātib al-Ṣīnī Hā Jīn
Ling yi ge kong jian
Hao bing
Nanking Requiem
אשפת מלחמה
LA Espera
Sombras del Pasado
Luo di
Cuo guo de shi guang
Crazed Proof
Bei pan zhi nan
Lu shang de jia yuan
Mŏsjin ch'urak
Guang tian hua ri
Xin lang
Nanjing an hun qu
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

poet, philosopher, biographer, professor

  • Badminton School, University of Oxford

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A fairly honourable defeat
Nuns and soldiers
An unofficial rose
Something Special
A word child
The red and the green
Acastos
Existentialists and Mystics
An accidental man
The book and the brotherhood
The Bell
Great humorous stories
The nice and the good
The Green Knight
The Italian girl
The fire & the sun
Metaphysics as a guide to morals
The philosopher's pupil
The Sea, the Sea
Le dilemme de Jackson
Under the net, a novel
Going Back
Bruno's Dream
Henry und Cato
The unicorn; a novel
The Time of the Angels
Sartre, romantic realist
In guter Absicht
Iris Murdoch, writer at war
El castillo de arena
Die Flucht vor dem Zauberer
A writer at war
A year of birds
The servants and the snow ; The three arrows ; The black prince
The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head
La Souveraineté du bien
Le Prince noir
Une'Tete Coupee
The existentialist political myth
Reynolds Stone
De Sacrale En Profane Liefdes Machine
Izbrannoe
Living on paper
Women ask why
Izbrannoe
Le message à la planète
From a tiny corner in the house of fiction
One alone
La negra noche
The Time of the Angels (The Collected Works of Iris Murdoch)
Joanna, Joanna
Rencontres avec Iris Murdoch
LE SEDUCTEUR QUITTE (DU MONDE ENTIER)
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
L'attention romanesque
Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three
Amigos Y Amantes/ Friends and Lovers
L'élève du philosophe
Iyinin Egemenligi
Angeliques
El Fuego y El Sol
Pediatric Medicine
Philosophy and literature
3 Arrows & Servnt & Snow
Tamarisk now
A SEVERED HEAD; THE BLACK PRINCE; THE SEA, THE SEA
Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two
Something special
A severed head
Iris Murdoch Omnibus
Three Arrows and the Ser Kindle
תחת הרשת
Philosophy Essays
Iris Murdoch in conversation with Malcolm Bradbury
Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume One
Ruya Sakinleri
Black Prince (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Never mind about the bourgeoisie
Black Prince (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
SOLDATS ET LES NONNES
Murdoch: 40 years a novelist
Het boek en de broederschap
TEMPO (O) DOS ANJOS -(EURO 17.41)
Algo del otro mundo
Descubrir el existencialismo
Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995)

translator, photographer, geographer

  • University of Amsterdam, Barlaeus Gymnasium

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Nooit meer slapen
Een ontmoeting met de tovenaar
Relikwieën en documenten
Donkere kamer van Damocles
Beyond sleep
Machines en emoties
Moedwil en misverstand
Een landingspoging op Newfoundland en andere verhalen
De donkere kamer van Damokles
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Ruisend gruis
Scheppend nihilisme
Herinneringen van een engelbewaarder
Van Wittgenstein tot Weinreb
Vincent literator
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Hermans is hier geweest
Je vriendschap is werkelijk onbetaalbaar
Slechte kritieken gaan nooit verloren, goede ook niet, sinds kort
De tranen der acacia's
De schrijfmachine mijmert gekkepraat
Een wonderkind of een total loss
Verscheur deze brief! Ik vertel veel te veel
De god Denkbaar, Denkbaar de god
Filip's sonatine
Fotobiografie
De laatste resten tropisch Nederland
Ik heb altijd gelijk
Au pair
Mondelinge mededelingen
Madelon in de mist van het schimmenrijk
De liefde tussen mens en kat
Waarom schrijven?
De raadselachtige Multatuli
Houten leeuwen en leeuwen van goud
Naar Magnitogorsk
Overgebleven gedichten
Periander
Klaas kwam niet
In de mist van het schimmenrijk
Nooit meer slapen
Onder professoren
Het boek der boeken, bij uitstek
Nooit meer slapen
Door gevaarlijke gekken omringd
Unter Professoren
De donkere kamer van Damokles
Drie melodrama's
Boze brieven van Bijkaart
Het evangelie van O. Dapper Dapper
Volledige werken
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Wittgenstein
De laatste roker
Malle Hugo
De zegelring
En toch ... was de machine goed
Homme's hoest
Een heilige van de horlogerie
De aardappel van de dood
Au pair
Een onmiskenbare verwantschap
Koningin Eenoog
De woeste wandeling
King Kong
Paranoia
No dormir nunca más
Dinky toys
Conserve
Pang!
Het sadistische universum
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Het Behouden Huis
Geyerstein's dynamiek
Uit talloos veel miljoenen
Gitaarvissen en banjoklokken
Een heilige van de horlogerie
Paranoia
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
Hollywood
De woeste wandeling
Fons Rademakers
Nooit meer slapen
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Filip's sonatine
De weerspannige slaper
Van Wittgenstein tot Weinreb
Hellebaarden
Vijf verhalen
Fotobiografie
De donkere kamer van Damocles
In de mist van het schimmenrijk
לא לישון לעולם
Kussen door een rag van woorden
Niet uit kwaadaardigheid
Description et genese des depots meubles de surface et du relief de l'Oesling
Drie melodrama's
Een landingspoging op NewFoundland, en andere verhalen
Paranoia
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Een landingspoging op Newfoundland en andere verhalen
Het sadistische universum
Vier novellen
MACHINES IN BIKINI
De tranen der acacia's
Erosie
Filip's sonatine
De geur van een pasgestoomde deken
Filip's sonatine
Het hoedenparadijs
Het grote medelijden
De donkere kamer van Damokles
Ik draag geen helm met vederbos
Drie drama's
Au pair
Lebensraum
Na de dood van Willem Frederik Hermans
Moedwil en misverstand
W.F. Hermans
De raadselachtige Multatuli
Het sadistische universum
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
Speculative Truth
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Power lines
Weighing the World
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Kenzaburō Ōe
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935-2023)

essayist

  • University of Tokyo

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Memushiri, kouchi
The pinch runner memorandum
Somersault
A quiet life
Rouse up o young men of the new age!
Japan, the ambiguous, and myself
Teach us to outgrow our madness
Kojinteki na taiken
Somersault
Man'en gannen no futtōbōru
Hiroshima notes
Hiroshima nōto
Two novels
The changeling
Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age
An Echo of Heaven
"Jibun no ki" no shita de
Sakokushite wa naranai
Ōe Kenzaburō sakka jishin o kataru
Kaifuku suru kazoku
Ureigao no dōji
The Silent Cry
Watakushi to iu shōsetsuka no tsukurikata
Bōryoku ni sakaratte kaku
Teach us to outgrow our madness
The silent cry
Death by water
Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
Watakushi to iu shosetsuka no tsukurikata
Atarashii hito yo mezameyo
Nihongo to Nihonjin no kokoro
The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath
Dites-nous comment survivre à notre folie
Kaba ni kamareru
The Changeling
Dōjidai to shite no sengo
Zapiski pinchrannera
Yuruyaka na kizuna
Personal Matter
Kaifukusuru kazoku
The Silent Cry
Fire from the Ashes
Torikaeko
Shosetsu no hoho
Verwandte des Lebens
Death by Water
Hiroshima kara Oiroshima e
Catch, The, And Other War Stories
The Crazy Iris
Jizokusuru kokorozashi
Una Cuestion Personal - Compactos -
Hyōgen suru mono
Shōsetsu no hōhō
Natsukashii toshi e no tegami
21-seiki Dosutoefusukī ga yatte kuru =
Atarashii bungaku no tame ni
Aimai na Nihon no watakushi
Bungaku nōto
Nostalgies et autres labyrinthes
Nihon no "watakushi" kara no tegami
Lettres aux années de nostalgie
On politics and literature
Una cuestión personal
Dinos Como Sobrevivir a Nuestra Locura
Shōsetsu no keiken
An echo of heaven
Somersault
Yuruyaka na kizuna
Kaku no taika to "ningen" no koe
A Personal Matter
Reisst die Knospen ab
Hiroshima noto
Shosetsu no keiken
Une existence tranquille
Arrachez les bourgeons, tirez sur les enfants
Le Jeu du siècle
Atarashii hito yo mezameyo
A Quiet Life (Oe, Kenzaburo)
Silent Cry (Five Star)
El Grito Silencioso
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
死者の奢り・飼育
Okinawa nōto
La Presa
Changeling
Aimai na Nihon no watashi
Notes de Hiroshima
Moi, d'un Japon ambigu
Une famille en voie de guérison
"Rein tsurī" o kiku onnatachi
Hōhō o yomu
Shōsetsu no takurami chi no tanoshimi
Cartas a Los Anos de Nostalgia
Kojinteki na taiken
Watakushitachi wa ima doko ni iru ka
Nihon gendai no yumanisuto Watanabe Kazuo o yomu
Jōkyō e
Notes de Hiroshima
Igry sovremennikov
Un amor especial
Nichijō seikatsu no bōken
Zapiski pinchrannera
Dōjidai gēmu
Seventeen and J
¡Adiós, libros míos!
Ōe Kenzaburō shū
Renacimiento
Yureugoku "vashirēshon"
Saigo no shōsetsu
Hiroshima Notes
Iigataki nageki mote
Eine persönliche Erfahrung
The Pinch Runner Memorandum
Warera no kyōki o ikinobiru michi o oshieyo
Ob ði Łali meni Ła vody do dushi moei --
Renacimiento
Grüner Baum in Flammen. Erster Band einer Romantrilogie
Sessiz çiglik
Hiroshima no "seimei no ki"
Stolz der Toten
Der kluge Regenbaum. Vier Erzählungen
Licht scheint auf mein Dach
Kowaremono to shite no ningen
Le faste des morts (French Edition)
"Sukuinushi" ga nagurareru made
Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids
Ingnŭn in'gan
Ōe Kenzaburō saihakken
Hiroshima notes
Shisha no ogori
Ōe Kenzaburō
Teach us to outgrow our madness
Renacimiento
Una cuestion personal
Ōe Kenzaburō zensakuhin
A Healing Family
Reißt die Knospen ab..
Kotoba ni yotte
Bungaku no fuchi o wataru
Kaifukusuru kazoko
Dōjidai gemu
Natsukashii toshi e no tegami
Kojinteki na taiken
M/T et l'histoire des merveilles de la forêt
Stille Tage
Ikani ki o korosu ka
Bi no saiteigi
Shikake to shite no seiji
Eine persönliche Erfahrung. Roman
Kirupu no gundan
Kojinteki na taiken
Boku ga honto ni wakakatta koro
Personal Matter
Luz y oscuridad
"Atarashii hito" no hō e
Kōzui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi
Mizukara waga namida o nugui-tamau hi
Huan qu de hai zi
Rōjaku no jiku danjo no jiku
Xing de ren
Suishi
Der atemlose Stern.
Torikaeko
Me mushiri
A Personal Matter
Death by water
The Catch and other war stories
Der Tag, an dem Er selbst mir die Tränen abgewischt
Der schwarze Ast
Kisisel Bir Sorun
Bai tuo wei ji zhe de diao cha shu
Der Tag, an dem Er selbst mir die Tränen abgewischt
Boku ga hontō ni wakakatta koro
Therapiestation
Sayonara, meine Bücher
"Rein tsurī" o kiku onnatachi
Qing nian de wu ming
Shizuka na seikatsu
Jinsei no shinseki
Wanyan yuan nian de zu qiu dui
M/T to mori no fushigi no monogatari
Nihyakunen no kodomo
Death by Water
Chiryōtō wakusei
Rōtashi Anaberu Rii sōkedachitsu mimakaritsu
Jinsei no shinseki
Gli anni della nostalgia
Sora no kaibutsu Aguī
Der nasse Tod
Het eigen lot
Shisha no ogori
Ikikata no teigi
Okurete kita seinen
Chūgaeri
Sei teki ningen
Reißt die Knospen ab... Jubiläums- Edition
Renacimiento
Silent Cry
Pinch Runner Memorandum
Seventeen (The Political Being) and J (The Sexual Being)
Kaifukusuru kazoku
Memushiri kouchi
Xiao shuo de fang fa
Man'en gannen no futtōbōru
The Paris Review Issue 183
Chiryōtō
Shosetsu no takurami chi no tanoshimi
Liang bai nian de hai zi
Arrancad Las Semillas - Fusilad a Los Ninos
Quiet Life
Kojinteki na taiken ; Pinchi rannā chōsho
Changeling
Ōoka Shōhei no sekai
Tagame. Berlin - Tokyo
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
In reito sutairu
Okurete kita seinen
Ōe Kenzaburō dōjidai ronshū
Opozdavshai︠a︡ molodezhʹ
Manʼen gannen no futtobōru
Kotoba ni yotte
Yureugoku "vashireshon" (Moeagaru midori no ki)
Hyōgensuru mono
Ikikata no teigi
Seinen no omei
Si zhe de she hua
Kojinteki na taiken ; Pinchi rannā chōsho
Der kluge Regenbaum
Yomu ningen
Yomu kōi
Ōe Kenzaburō shōsetsu
読む人間
Genshuku na tsuna watari
Kotoba to sekai
"Hanashite kangaeru" to "kaite kangaeru"
Nichijō seikatsu no bōken
日本語 と 日本人 の 心
Moeagaru midori no ki
Shomotsu--Sekai no inʼyu
Guangdao zha ji
Yorokobashiki gakumon
Bunka no kasseika
Somersault
Tsakise ta apo mikra, skotose ta apo paidia
Nagae Kogito to shōsetsu sakusha no taiwa
Jōkyō e
Ge ren de ti yan
Me mushiri ko uchi
Warera no jidai
Kakujidai no sōzōryoku
Ōe Kenzaburō shū
Bungaku nōto
Bunka no kasseika
Gibier d'élevage
Chenjiringu
Jinsei no habitto
Shōsetsu no hōhō
Catch and Other Stories
Liang bai nian de hai zi
Warera no kyōki o ikinobiru michi o oshieyo
Chūgaeri
Seiteki ningen
Ōe Kenzaburō
Shisha no ogori ; Shiiku
Shinnen no aisatsu
Chiryoto wakusei
Kaba ni kamareru
"Sekai" no 40-nen
Il grido silenzioso
Mizukara waga namida o nuguitamau hi
Zentaiwa, sekai to Nihon to Nihonjin
Grand street
Jikan o tankensuru
Mieru ie to mienai ie
Gendai denkishū
Hōhō o yomu
Nantomo shirenai mirai ni
Dajiang Jiansanlang kou shu zi zhuan
Dōjidai gēmu
Sei to shi no benshōhō
美しいアナベル・リイ
Sakebigoe
Ōe Kenzaburō zensakuhin
Kujira no shimetsusuru hi
Meitan
Sekai no wakamonotachi
Jiritsu to kyōsei o kataru
Zenshōsetsu
Atomic aftermath
Pinchi rannā chōsho
Saigo no shosetsu
Shinnen no aisatsu
Chiryoto
A personal matter
日本 の 中 の 朝鮮
Shomotsu--Sekai no inʼyu
Teigishū
Ikani ki o korosu ka
Ōe Kenzaburō-shō 8-nen no kiseki, "bungaku no kotoba" o kaifukusaseru
Chūshin to shūen
M/T to mori no fushigi no monogatari
Ureigao no dōji
Manʼen gannen no futtobōru
Jing jing di sheng huo
Sōzō to sōzōryoku
Kobayashi Hideo o yomu
Okinawa nōto
「伝える言葉」プラス
Kojinteki na taiken
Shisha no ogori
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (born 1971)

literary scholar, Americanist, ethnologist

  • University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles

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The Sympathizer
Fight of the Century
The Committed
It occurs to me that I am America
Refugees
One World Two
Nothing ever dies
The Displaced
Go home!
Race & resistance
Transpacific Studies
Maxine Hong Kingston
Displaced
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
Chicken of the Sea
The refugees
Pangs of Love and Other Writings
Sempatizan
Refugees, The
Untitled Viet Thanh Nguyen Essays
El simpatizante
El simpatizante (Spanish Edition)
Mülteciler
Le sympathisant
Tong qing zhe
Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii (born 1951)

film director, mangaka, television director, playwright, animator, director

  • Tokyo Gakugei University

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Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007)

painter, publisher, war correspondent, photographer, graphic artist

  • Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

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