21st Century Literature

• Miguel Syjuco - Filipino writer from Manila
• Miguel Syjuco - Grand Prize winner for 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel "Ilustrado"
• Bi FeiYu - Works are known for complex portrayal of female psyche
• Bi FeiYu - Wrote the screenplay for Zhang Yimou's 1996 film "Shanghai Triad"
• Bi FeiYu - Won Man Booker Prize for Asian Literature in 2010 with his work "Three Sisters"
• Shin Kyung Sook - First ever Korean to win a Man Asian Literary Prize
• Shin Kyung Sook - Won the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for her for "Please Look After Mother"
• The 3 awards Shin Kyung Sook won - Manhae Literature Prize, Dong-in Literary Award, and Yi Sang Literary Prize
• Govind Vinayak Karandikar - Better known as Vinda
• Govind Vinayak Karandikar - Poet, writer, literary critic, and translator for Marathi language
• Govind Vinayak Karandikar - Wrote "The Wheel"
• Yosuke Tanaka - Born in Tokyo in 1969
• Yosuke Tanaka - Debuted in Eureka at the age of 19
• Yosuke Tanaka - Writes poems with stylistic diversity and unique sense of humor
• Yosuke Tanaka - Wrote "A Day When The Mountains Are Visible"
• Yosuke Tanaka - Wrote "Sweet Ultramarine Dreams"
• Yosuke Tanaka - Has emerged as the new poetic sensitivity in Japan, and is sure to remain one of the most important figures in contemporary Japanese poetry
• Haruki Murakami - Famous Japanese author whose works have been translated into several languages
• Haruki Murakami - Not only arguably the most experimental Japanese novelist to have been translated into English, but is also the most popular, with sales in the millions worldwide
• Haruki Murakami - Now the most widely-read Japanese novelist of his generation
• Haruki Murakami - Has won virtually every prize Japan has to offer including its greatest, the "Yomiuri Literary Prize"
• Haiku - Unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively
• Haiku - First emerged in Japanese literature during the 1st century, as a terse reaction to elaborate poetic traditions, though it did not become known by its name until the 19th century
• Science Fiction - A genre of speculative fiction that contains imagined elements that don't exist in the real world
• Science Fiction - Spans a wide range or themes tat often explore lime travel, space travel, are set in the future, and deal with the consequences of technological and scientific advances
• Ramayana (5th to 4th century BC) - Includes Vimana flying machines able to travel into space or underwater, and destroy under cities using advanced weapons
• Rigveda collection of Sanskrit hymns (1700-1100 BC) - "mechanical birds" that are seen "jumping into space speedily with a craft using fire and water.
• Folklore - Expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people
• Folklore - It encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group
• Folklore - Include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes
• Epics - Shishi
• Narrative poems - Xushishi
• Wedding songs - Kujiage
• Drinking songs - Jiuge
• Love songs - Quingge
• Work songs - Laodongge
• Folktales - Minjiangushi
• Myths - Shenhua
• Legends - Chuanshuo
• Animal tales - Dongwugushi