21st century

• Dufu - also known as Tu Fu, the greatest Chinese poet.


  wrote "The Ballad of the Army Carts"
• Li Po - also Li Tai-po/Li Tai-pen, competitor of Du Fu


  romantic in life, his works are known for its conventional tone and vivid imagery. he wrote "Drinking Alone in the Moonlight"
• Wang Wei - poet, painter, musician, and statesman during Tang Dynasty. he wrote "The Cold Mountain" inspired by the Local Landscapes.
• Japan in Chinese reading is Nihon/Nippon that means "The Land of the Rising Sun"
• Haiku - 17 syllables
• Hon - traditional Japanese theatrical form
• Kabuki - a popular Japanese theater form in which stylized acting is combined with lyric singing. (singing, dancing, acting)
• Abe Kobo - Japanese novelist and playwright also known by the pseudonym "Abe Kimifusa"
• Abe Kobo - wrote "Tomodachi" (friends) a story with dark humor, relationship with others, and peculiarity with human relations.
• Abe Kobo - won the 1967 and 1951 Akutagawa Award for his short novel "Kabe"
• Kimitake Hiraoka - his pen name is "Mishima Yukio"

  • most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century.
  • one of the finalists of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • he wrote "The Temple of The Golden Pavilion" which was translated by Ivan Morris based on the burning of the Reliquary of Kinaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist in 1950.
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa - The Father of the Japanese short story. He wrote the short story "Rashomon" about the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashomon.
• Haruki Murakami - Japanese novelist who won the International Award "Jerusalem Prize" also won the Gunzou Literature Prize for his novel "Hear the Wind Sing" about an unnamed protagonist and his friend, Rat. His works have been translated into more than 50 languages.
• In Eastern Asia, China is one of the world's cradles of civilization.
• Western Asia is where Arabic literary tradition has been flourishing.
• Islam is the foundation of culture in this region.
• Western Asia was influenced by Persian, Byzantine, and Andalusian Traditions.
• Kahlil Gibran is a
• Kahlil Gibran is a Lebanese poet who emigrated to US.
• Khalil Gibran wrote his poetic parables and aphorisms known as "The Prophet" (1923) and "Sand and Foam" (1926)
• Gibran was influenced by Nietzsche but also was religious. God, love, and woman.
• Omar Khayyam is a Persian poet during his lifetime as a mathematician.
• Omar Khayyam wrote Ruba'i (epigram) a concise quotable statement of the poet's philosophy.
• In South and Southeast Asia, India is the cultural giant.
• Hallmark writings such as Veda, Brahmanas, and Upanishads.
• As early as 1500 BCE, the Veda written in the Sanskrit language introduced by the birth of Indian literary works.
• Kalidasa was a notable and famous Indian writer; the Hindu Shakespeare.
• Malaysian and Indonesian literature reflects a large part of the Sanskrit language and Islam culture.
• Rabindranath Tagore is a Bengali poet.
• Rabindranath Tagore wrote "The Bard of Bengali" a towering figure of world literature.
• Rabindranath won the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature Award for his book The English Gitanjali (Song Offering).
• English Gitanjali (Song Offering) is a collection of devotional songs to the supreme.
• Raja Rao is an Indian writer of novels and short stories.
• Raja Rao wrote the famous novel called "The Serpent and the Rope"
• "The Serpent and the Rope" is a semi-autobiography of the narrator.
• Raja Rao was one of the finest Indian prose stylist.
• Rasipuram Krishnaswani Narayan also known as R.K. Narayan.
• Rasipuram Krishnaswani Narayan is one of the finest Indian authors in the English Language.
• Rasipuram wrote the Sanitya Award-winning novel known as "The Guide"
• "The Guide" describes the transformation of the protagonist from a tour guide to a spiritual guide, one of the greatest holy men in India.