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• Miguel Syjuco is a Filipino writer from Manila and the grand prize winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his first novel Illustrado
• Three sisters by Bi Feiyu is a Chinese writer. His works are known for their complex portrayal

  of the "female psyche." He has won some of the highest literary awards in China. He

  also wrote the screenplay for Zhang Yimou's 1996 film Shanghai Triad
• Shin Kyung-sook became the first Korean writer to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for her novel Please Look After Mother. In Korea, Shin is amongst the most highly regarded contemporary writers, and she has won major literary prizes including the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-In Literary Award and the Yi Sang
• August 23, 1918–March 14, 2010), better known as Vindā, was an Indian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator in the Marathi-language. The Wheel by VindaKarandikar (India)
• Yosuke Tanaka (Japan) He was born in Tokyo in 1969 and made his debut as a poet in the prestigious literary magazine Eureka at the age of 19. So far, he has published two poetry books, A Day When the Mountains are Visible in 1999, and Sweet Ultramarine Dreams in 2008.
• James Brendan Patterson (New York) was born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York, His greatest influence, he said later, was probably Evan S. Connell's 1959 debut novel Mrs.

  Bridge. He published his first novel in 1976 called The Thomas Berryman

  Number. Patterson has written 147 novels since 1976. He has had 114 New York

  Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most #1 New York

  Times bestsellers by a single author, a total of 67, which is also a Guinness World

  Record
• Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist. He has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all

  of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold

  worldwide in more than 50 languages. Eleven of his novels have been adapted to

  film, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on

  all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A

  Walk to Remember, Dear John, The Last Song, and The

  Notebook, w
• John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author and YouTube content creator. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012.
• Suzanne Collins (Hartford, Connecticut) In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotau
• Billy Collins is arguably the greatest poet of the 21st century. His work is influential for many modern Americans since it is able to connect with the masses. Collins work is now considered some of the best poetry in history and is considered a modern classic that will impact future generations of poets.
• Joanne Rowling (31, July 1965) born in Yate, Gloucestershire, a British writer and philanthropist. She is best known as the author of Harry Potter fantasy series
• Stephen Edwin King (21September 1947) born in Portland, Maine. He is an American writer of various genre such as horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Many of his books have been adopted into films, televisions, miniseries, and comic books.
• 10 November1960) born in Portchester, Hampshire, England as Neil Richard Gaiman, (Mackinnon was taken from her wife Amanda Palmer’s middle name;2011-2020). Neil Gaiman’sgrandfather changed their original family name from Chaiman to Gaiman. As early as age of four, Gaiman was able to read and said that he was a reader and he loved reading. His writing career began in England as journalist.
• also known as GRRM and George R.R. Martin. He is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire and later adapted into the Home Box Office (HBO) dramatic series of Game of Thrones (2011).
• Coraline is a dark fantasy children’s novella written by Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Hraper Collins.
• Latin American Literature has a rich and complex tradition of literary production dates back many centuries.
• Pre-Columbian Literature were primarily oral, while the Aztecs and Mayans produced elaborate codices.
• Colonial Literature when Europeans encountered the New World, early explorers and conquistadores produced written accounts of crónicas of their experience, like Columbus’s letters or Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s description of the conquest of Mexico
• Nineteenth Century Literature was the period of foundational fictions. Novels in the Romantic or Naturalist traditions which attempted to establish a sense of national identity and focused on the role and rights of the indigenous or the dichotomy of “civilization or barbarism”
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a famous 

  Columbian novelist, short story writer, journalist, screenwriter and a Nobel Prize 

  winner in 1982 for his novels and short stories.

  He was familiarly known as “Gabo” and considered as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.One Hundred 

  Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in time of Cholera, and Autumn 

  of the Patriarch. 
• Carlos FuentesMacías was a Mexican novelist and essayist. He was described by The New York Times as “one of the most admired writers in the Spanish Speaking World.The Guardian called him “Mexico’s most celebrated novelist. His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Belisario Dominguez Medal of Honor (1999) as Mexico’s highest award and was often a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.
• Mario Vargas Llosa– is a Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays and was He wrote about this experience “A Fish in the Water: A Memoir” (1993) and became a citizen of Spain and was awarded the Cervantes Prizeof the same year. Despite his new nationality he continued to write about Peru in such novels “The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto” (1997), The feast of the Goat (2000, filmed 2005), The Way to Paradise (2003) The Bad Girl (2006), The Dream of the Celt (2010), The Discreet Hero (2013) and The Neighborhood (2016).
• Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant Latina writers and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale. Alvarez rose to prominence with her novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her works as a poet include Homecoming (1984), and The Woman I kept to Myself (2004) and Something to Declare (1998) was her autobiographical compilation as an essayist.
• Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He is one of the world’s most widely recognized and praised writers. He is often called the father of modern African literature. Chinua Achebe wrote some of the most extraordinary works of the 20th century. He died on March 21,2013 in Boston. He was 82. His most famous novel, Things Fall Apart (1958),i
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieis a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. He is part of a new generation of African writers taking the literary world by storm. Adichie’s works are primarily character-driven, interweaving the background of her native Nigeria and social and political events into the narrative. Her novel Purple Hibiscus (2003) is a bildungsroman
• AyiKwei Armah is a Ghanaian writer best known as an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children. AyiKwei

  Armah’s novels are known for their intense, powerful depictions of political

  devastation and social frustration in Armah’s native Ghana, told from the

  point of view of the individual.
• Mariama Bâ is a Senegalese author and feminist, whose French- language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. He is one of Africa’s most influential women authors,
• Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays
• Haiku, unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The haiku first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century,
• Science fiction (sci-fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that contains imagined elements that don’t exist in the real world
• Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. These include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles to handmade toys common to the group
• Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan in January 12,1949. He grew up in Kobe and then moved to Tokyo, where he attended Waseda University. After college, Murakami opened small jazz bar which he and his wife ran for seven years. He is a famous Japanese author whose works have been translated into several languages.