Were Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Carl Sagan both writers?
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介 , Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927) was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He committed suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.
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Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan ( ; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.
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Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during the Golden Age of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
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Contact (novel) Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced, extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on the 1985 U.S. bestseller list. The novel originated as a screenplay by Sagan and Ann Druyan (whom he later married) in 1979; when development of the film stalled, Sagan decided to convert the stalled film into a novel. The film concept was subsequently revived and eventually released in 1997 as the film "Contact" starring Jodie Foster.
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Jack Williamson John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
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Norifumi Suzuki Norifumi Suzuki (鈴木 則文 , Suzuki Norifumi , November 26, 1933 – May 15, 2014) , also known as Noribumi Suzuki, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the "Torakku Yarō" series.
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Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale "Dragon: the Old Potter’s Tale" (龍 , Ryū ) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It was first published in a collection of Akutagawa short stories, "Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū". The story is based on a thirteenth-century Japanese tale, with Akutagawa’s Taishō literary interpretations of modern psychology and the nature of religion.
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Einosuke Itō Einosuke Itō (伊藤 永之介 , Itō Einosuke , Akita, November 21, 1903 – July 26, 1959) was a Japanese writer.
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Chuck Norris Carlos Ray Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist, and has since founded his own school of fighting, Chun Kuk Do.
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Nobuo Kojima Nobuo Kojima (小島 信夫 , Kojima Nobuo , February 28, 1915 - October 26, 2006) was a Japanese writer prominent in the postwar era. He is most readily associated with other writers of his generation, such as Shōtarō Yasuoka, who describe the effects of Japan's defeat in World War II on the country's psyche.
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Boris Akunin Boris Akunin (Russian: Борис Акунин ) is the pen name of Grigol Chkhartishvili (Russian: Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили ; Georgian: გრიგოლ ჩხარტიშვილი ) (born May 20, 1956), a Russian writer of Georgian and Jewish origin. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova and Akunin-Chkhartishvili.
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Ryu Kum-chel Ryu Kum-chel is a manhwa (Korean comics) artist from Daejeon, South Korea. His representative works are Ares, "Nephilim", and "King Muryeong". According to a manhwa critic, Lee Seung-nam's review of "Ares" in 2004, Ryu showed a mature style and presentation as opposed to his short career as a manhwa artist.
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Hideo Takubo Hideo Takubo (田久 保英夫 , Takubo Hideo , January 25, 1928 - April 14, 2001) was a noted Japanese author. He studied French literature at Keio University, and won the 1969 Akutagawa Prize for "Fukaikawa" (Deep River), 1985 Yomiuri Prize for "Kaizu", and 1997 Noma Literary Prize for "Kodamashu".
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Åke Sandgren Åke Sandgren (born 13 May 1955) is a Swedish-Danish film director and screenwriter. He has written and directed a number of films in a variety of genres, mostly in Denmark where he now lives.
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Shun'ichi Yukimuro Shun'ichi Yukimuro (雪室 俊一 "Yukimuro Shun'ichi", born January 11, 1941, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) is a veteran screenwriter for anime television series. Yukimuro has had a career spanning four decades and written over 3,000 anime television series scenarios, including episodes of many classic series produced by the Toei Animation studio.
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Ken Masters Kenneth "Ken" Masters (ケン・マスターズ , Ken Masutāzu ) , originally spelled in Japanese as 拳 ("Ken"), is a character in Capcom's "Street Fighter" series. Ken is Ryu's best friend and rival, and like Ryu, he has appeared in all "Street Fighter" games. Like Ryu, Ken's goal is to test his power against many different fighters, and strives to become stronger.
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Erik Christian Haugaard Erik Christian Haugaard (April 13, 1923 – June 4, 2009) was a Danish-born American writer, best known for children's books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
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Mitsuru Yoshida Mitsuru Yoshida (吉田 満 "Yoshida Mitsuru" January 6, 1923 – September 17, 1979) was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was a survivor of the battleship "Yamato" when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.
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Edwin Charles Tubb Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 – 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: "Dumarest of Terra"), an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. Michael Moorcock wrote, "His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain."
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Norm Augustinus Norman Theodore Augustinus, Jr is an American writer.
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Junzo Shono Junzō Shōno (庄野 潤三 , Shōno Junzō , 9 February 1921 – 21 September 2009) was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book "Purusaido Shokei" ("Poolside Scene"). Shōno's other award-winning books include "Seibutsu" ("Still Life"), for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, "Yube no Kumo" ("Evening Clouds"), which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize, and "Eawase" ("Picture Cards") which took the Noma literary prize.
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Akilan Akilan was a Tamil author noted for his realistic and creative writing style. Akilan was a freedom fighter, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, satirist, travel writer, playwright, script-writer, orator and critic. He is also a children's novelist.