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Sputnik Sweetheart is a 1999 book written by globally acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Originally published in Japanese, it was translated into English by Philip Gabriel in 2001.

The plot of Sputnik Sweetheart revolves around Sumire, a...

War Trash is a novel written by Chinese author Xufei Jin, who writes under the pen name Ha Jin. Ha has lived in America for decades, and writes in English, so his novels are not "lost in translation", even though some of the Chinese history and...

Born in British Columbia, Canada in 1948, Jeannette Armstrong is a prolific poet, academic and campaigner for the rights of Indigenous peoples. Her works of poetry include 'Breath tracks', and she contributed to the collection 'Voices: Being...

Alice Walker is an African-American writer and active political advocate, known for her good-great works in fiction, non-fiction and poetry itself. She was born in 1944 in a small rural town in central Georgia, where her parents used to farmed the...

Gwendolyn Bennett was an American artist of paintings and literature. Although she wrote several novels and worked for a publishing company for some time, Bennett also wrote poems in her spare time. Some of her most famous poems are those included...

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most famous revolutionaries in Russia and his "Memoirs", first written in Russian, dealt with the way in which his life had progressed and how his experiences had laid the groundwork for his anarchist philosophies.

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The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of noted social activist and radical figure in Catholicism in America, Dorothy Day (1897-1980). Published in 1952, the autobiography covers much of the first half of the 20th century and traces Day’s...

Søren Kierkegaard has first published Either/Or in 1843 under the pseudonym of Victor Eremita after claiming to having found the manuscript hiding in an ancient piece of furniture. It is supposed to be written by two different people, seemingly...

First performed in 1604, Michaelmas Term is a play by the English playwright Thomas Middleton. The play is set in St. Paul's Cathedral, and revolves around a personified "Michaelmas Term". Divided into five acts, the play received good reception...

Inspired by his love for Jack London's writing, Mahbod Seraji decided to start writing himself. In his first novel, Rooftops of Tehran, he aimed to bring a piece of Persian culture and life closer to his readers. As the born Iranian felt that his...

The Diviners is one of the most autobiographical works of the Canadian writer Margaret Laurence, as well as her last one. It was published in 1974, the same year it won the Governer General's Literary Awards. It has ever since then been considered...

Maura Dooley is a British poet born on May 18, 1957. Though her parents were originally from Ireland, she grew up in Bristol, England. She obtained a degree from the University of York and now resides in London, teaching creative writing at the...

Fastness: A Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser is a translation of the poetry of Edmund Spenser published in 2017 by Irish author and translator Trevor Joyce. One of the most famous poems in the book is "The Ruines of Rome," which...

Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven is a novel that was written by Karen Salyer McElmurray. McElmurray is an American writer of many genres, and this novel is actually her first. Most of her books are of the fiction or memoir type, and Strange...

For Today I Am a Boy is the first novel by Canadian author Kim Fu. Its title is derived from a song of the same name by Anthony & The Johnsons. It tells the story of Peter Huang, a first-generation Canadian born to Chinese immigrant parents....

Twelfth Night was directed by Paul Kafno for television while Kenneth Branagh directed to stage production. Based upon William Shakespeare's play it was produced by the Renaissance Theatre Company and distributed by ITV-Independent Television. The...

Anthony Trollope is far more widely known for his novels. He remains one of the most prolific novelists of all time. Before establishing that reputation, however, Trollope had already earned himself a name for publishing short tales of family...

The Way to Rainy Mountain is a historical fiction novel by American author Navarre Scott Momaday. The book follows the path of a nomadic group of Native Americans known as the Kiowa, a tribe with which Momaday's ancestors were associated. The...

How I Became a Nun is a novel by Cesar Aira. Published in 2007, the book takes place in Argentina and chronicles the story of a young child named César who refers to herself as a girl but is seen by the rest of the world as a boy.

The plot of How...

Zafer Senocak is a Turkish writer born on May 25, 1961 in Ankara, Turkey. When Senocak was nine years old, his family moved to Munich, Germany, where he attended high school and later studied political science at university. Before he delved into...

A Frenchman, a philosopher, and a literary analyst, Jean-Francois Lyotard lived from 1924 until 1998, and his legacy is still felt every time someone says "Postmodernism," since it was Lyotard who brought the term out from Art Theory and into...

Ruth Fainlight was born in the United States in the year 1931, but now lives in the United Kingdom. Still alive and active today, she is a poet, translator, and writer of fiction. For a time, she also lived in Spain and France, helping with her...

Raymond Carver was an American short story and poem writer born in 1938. He was born in a small town in Oregon, which may have inspired why much of his work has to do with realism and minimalism. He started looking into writing, however, when he...

The Age of Reason was published in two parts by Thomas Paine, the first in 1794 and the follow-up in 1796. Part of the reason for The Age of Reason existing in two separate parts is the reception the original publication received. Essentially, the...