Are both Tom Stoppard and Yasunari Kawabata a novelist?
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Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as "Arcadia", "The Coast of Utopia", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Professional Foul", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". He co-wrote the screenplays for "Brazil", "The Russia House", and "Shakespeare in Love", and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. In 2008 "The Daily Telegraph" ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
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Yasunari Kawabata Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 , Kawabata Yasunari , 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
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Tomoka Shibasaki Tomoka Shibasaki (柴崎 友香 , Shibasaki Tomoka ) is a Japanese author, born on October 20, 1973, in Osaka. She graduated from Osaka Prefecture University and worked for four years before her debut in 2000, the novel "Kyō no dekigoto", which was filmed by Isao Yukisada in 2003 (English title: A day on the planet).
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Tomoko Yoshida Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子 , real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子 ; Hamamatsu, February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer.
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John Christopher Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels "The Death of Grass", "The Possessors", and the young-adult novel series "The Tripods". He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
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Kansuke Naka Kansuke Naka (中 勘助 , Naka Kansuke , 22 May 1885 – 3 May 1965) was a Japanese novelist and essayist.
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Morio Kita Morio Kita (北 杜夫 , Kita Morio ) was the pen name of Sokichi Saitō (斎藤 宗吉 , Saitō Sōkichi , May 1, 1927 – October 24, 2011) , a Japanese novelist, essayist, and psychiatrist.
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Yuu Kamiya Thiago Furukawa Lucas (born 10 November 1984), who goes by his pen name Yuu Kamiya (榎宮 祐 , Kamiya Yū ) , is a Japanese-Brazilian novelist and illustrator. He worked on Takaya Kagami's light novel adaptation of "A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives". In 2013, he then worked on writing and illustrating his own light novel series "No Game No Life" which has been adapted into anime, was listed as one of the top-selling light novels in 2014. and was one of ten light novel series to receive a Yomiuri Shimbun Sugoi Japan Award. In 2015, his newer light novel and manga series "Clockwork Planet" was greenlit for an anime adaptation. In 2011, he married Mashiro Hiiragi, who would work on the manga adaptation of "No Game No Life".
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Hiroyuki Itsuki Hiroyuki Itsuki (Japanese: 五木 寛之 , born September 30, 1932) is a Japanese novelist, essayist and lyricist, best known in Japan by his novel "The Gate of Youth" and in the English-speaking world by "Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace".
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Tom Sharpe Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his "Wilt" series, as well as "Porterhouse Blue" and "Blott on the Landscape," which were both adapted for television.
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Takitarō Minakami Takitarō Minakami (水上 滝太郎 , Minakami Takitarō , 6 December 1887 – 23 March 1940) was the pen-name of Abe Shōzō, a Japanese novelist and literary critic active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Yasuo Tanaka Yasuo Tanaka (田中 康夫 , Tanaka Yasuo , born April 12, 1956) is a Japanese novelist and politician. He served as the governor of Nagano Prefecture from 2000 to 2006, became president of New Party Nippon, and has been elected to Japan's legislatures.
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An Artist of the Floating World An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel also deals with the role of people in a rapidly changing environment.
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Tom Arden David Rain (2 May 1961 – 15 December 2015), known by his pen name Tom Arden, was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. He was born in Australia. His main work is the five volume "Orokon" saga, as well as the novels "Shadow Black", "The Translation of Bastian Test" and the Doctor Who novella "Nightdreamers".
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Tom Lotherington Tom Lotherington (born 15 June 1950) is a Norwegian poet, novelist, biographer and translator. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the poetry collection "Hverdagsfantasier". He has written the novels "Den tredje tjeneren" (1985) and "Kjødets gjerninger" (1989), and biographies on the poets Herman Wildenvey and Harald Sverdrup. He was head of The Norwegian Writers' Center from 2001 to 2005.
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Yōichi Takahashi Yōichi Takahashi (高橋 陽一 , Takahashi Yōichi , born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese cartoonist and manga artist, best known for his work "Captain Tsubasa". Takahashi has published art books, manga, novels, and guides, most of which are of about his manga "Captain Tsubasa". He is also known for his soccer series, "".
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Tom Perrotta Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels "Election" (1998) and "Little Children" (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of "Little Children" with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also known for his novel "The Leftovers" (2011), which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO.
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Mitsuru Yūki Mitsuru Yūki is a female Japanese novelist who is famed for her work, "Shōnen Onmyōji".
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Thomas Hinde (novelist) Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
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Yukito Ayatsuji Naoyuki Uchida (内田 直行 , Uchida Naoyuki , born December 23, 1960) , who writes under his pen name Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人 , Ayatsuji Yukito ) , is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror. He is one of the founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. His wife is Fuyumi Ono, a Japanese fantasy and horror writer who is known for her fantasy series "The Twelve Kingdoms".
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Tom Gabbay Tom Gabbay (born April 1, 1953) is a United States novelist and screenwriter, best known for the Jack Teller series of historical spy thrillers.
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Colin Thubron Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.