Lin Yutang (Chinese: 林語堂; pinyin: Lín Yǔtáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lîm gú-tông ; October 10, 1895 – March 26,

1976) was a renowned Hokkien Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor. His
informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of
his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were
bestsellers in the West.

(1928) Jian Fu Collection (Shanghai: Bei Hsin Book Company)

(1930) Letters of a Chinese Amazon and Wartime Essays (Shanghai: Kaiming

(1930) Kaiming English Books (Three Volumes) (Shanghai: Kaiming)

(1930) English Literature Reader (Two Volumes) (Shanghai: Kaiming)

(1930) Kaiming English Grammar (Two Volumes) (Shanghai: Kaiming)

(1931) Reading in Modern Journalistic Prose (Shanghai: Oriental Book)

(1933) A Collection of Essays on Linguistics (Shanghai: Kaiming Book)

(1934) Da Huang Ji (Shanghai: Living)

(1934) My Words First Volume (Sing Su Ji) (Shanghai Times)

JAPAN

Takashi Nagatsuka (長塚 節 Nagatsuka Takashi, April 3, 1879–February 8, 1915) was a Japanese poet
and novelist. According to prominent historian Ann Waswo, Nagatsuka Takashi was born into a
landowning family.
Generally, he was born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. More specifically, his place of birth was 国生村
(Kosshō Village) in 石下町 (Ishige Town), which was merged in 2006 with 水海道市 (Mitsukaido City) to
form modern day 常総市 (Joso City).

しらくちの花 Shirakuchi no hana

炭焼のむすめ Sumiyaki no musume

太十と其犬 Tajuu to sono inu

長塚節歌集 Nagatsuka Takashi Kashu, tanka collection

隣室の客 Rinshitsu no kyaku

土 Tsuchi

The Soil, translated by Ann Waswo, University of California Press, 1989,

Born in 1943 in Kitakyūshū, Ohmae earned a BS in chemistry in 1966 from Waseda University, an MS in
nuclear physics in 1968 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in nuclear engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.

The Mind of the Strategist

The End of the Nation State

The Borderless World

Triad Power

•El Proximo Escenario Global

La Mente Del Estratega

Next Global Stage

The Invisible Continent

The Mind Of the Strategist

Triad Power

Akira Kurosawa (Kyūjitai: 黒澤 明, Shinjitai: 黒沢 明 Kurosawa Akira; March 23, 1910 – September 6,
1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57
years. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) ...

Scandal (1950)

Rashomon (1950)

Ikiru (1952)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Throne of Blood (1957)

Yojimbo (1961)

Dersu Uzala (1975)

KOREA

Kim Young-ha was born in Hwacheon on November 11, 1968. He moved from place to place as a child,
since his father was in the military. As a child, he suffered from gas poisoning from coal gas and lost
memory before ten.He was educated at Yonsei University in Seoul, earning undergraduate as well as
graduate degrees in Business Administration from Yonsei University, but he didn't show much interest in
it. Instead he focused on writing stories.

The Pager (Hochul 1997)

The Vampire (Heup-hyul-gwi 1998)

Why, Arang (Arang-eun wae 2001),

Black Flower (Geomeun kkot 2003)

Your Republic Is Calling You (Bit-e jeguk2006)

Quiz Show (Kwijeusyo 2007)

Nobody {Blank} What Happened (2010)

I Hear Your Voice (Neo-ui moksori-ga deullyeo 2012)

A Murderer's Guide to Memorization(Salinja-ui gieokbeop 2013)

Only two person(2017)

Ahn Junghyo was born December 2, 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang Universitywith a
BA in English literature in 1965. He worked as an English-language writer for the Korea Herald in 1964,
and later served as a director for the Korea Times in 1975-1976. He was Editorial Director for the Korean
Division of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1971 to 1974.

White War (1983/1989)

Autumn Sea People (가을바다 사람들) (1993)

Silver Stallion (1990)

Kalssam (갈쌈) (1986)

The Life of the Hollywood Kid (헐리우드키드의 생애) (1992)

Kim Seungok was born in Osaka, Japan, Kim Seungok returned to Korea after its liberation in
1945. There, he was raised in Suncheon in Jeollanam-dowhere he graduated from Suncheon High
School.In 1960, he studied French Literature at Seoul National University at a time that department and
University were the center of intellectual discontent in Seoul.While at Seoul National University, Kim
was a cartoonist for a Seoul newspaper and published his first major story at age 19 ("Practice for
Life"").

Fantasy Notebook (Hwansang sucheop,1962)

Fifteen Certified Preconceptions(Hwaginhaebon yeoldaseot gaji gojeong gwannyeom)

Operation (Saengmyeong yeonseup, 1962)

A Journey to Mujin (Mujingihaeng, 1964)

Seoul, Winter 1964 (Seoul, 1964 nyeon gyeoul, 1965)

Journey by Night (Yahaeng)

A Cup of Tea (Chana hanjan)

Strong are the Goats (Yeomsoneun himi seda, 1966)

The Moonlight in Seoul: Chapter 0 (Seourui dalbit 0 jang)

To Understand My Sister(nuirul ihaehagi wihayeo, 1963)

INDIA

Dilip Hiro is an Indian author, journalist, and commentator who specializes on the politics of South
Asia and Middle East.Hiro was born in the Indian sub-continent, Hiro was educated in India, Britain, and
the United States, where he received a master's degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University. Hiro settled in London in the mid-1960s, where he became a full-time writer, journalist, and
commentator.

Inside the Middle East (1982)

Inside India Today (1977)

The Untouchables of India (1975)

Black British, White British (1973)

The Indian Family in Britain (1969)

Three Plays (1985)

Interior, Exchange, Exterior (Poems, 1980)

Apply, Apply, No Reply & A Clean Break (Two Plays, 1978)

To Anchor a Cloud (Play, 1972)

A Triangular View (Novel, 1969)

Muhammad Iqbal (/ˈɪkbɑːl/; Urdu: ‫ ;اِقبال محمد‬9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938), widely known as Allama
Iqbal was a poet, philosopher and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholarin British
India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is called the "Spiritual
Father of Pakistan." He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary
work in both Urdu and Persian.

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia(1908)

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930)

Asrar-i-Khudi (1915)[8]

Rumuz-i-Bekhudi (1917)[8]

Payam-i-Mashriq (1923
Bang-i-Dara (1924)[8]

Bal-i-Jibril (1935)[8]

Zarb-i Kalim (1936

Zabur-i-Ajam (1927)[8]

Javid Nama (1932

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer,
graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th
century. Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was prominent in the field of arts and
literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after
meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle
Thieves (1948) during a visit to London.

Ekei Bole Shooting

Apur Panchali

Toray Bandha Ghorar Dim

Mollah Nasiruddin-er Galpo

Brazil-er kalo bagh

Pikoor Diary O Onnanyo

Jakhon Chhoto Chilam

Sujon harbola

Protikriti

Bishoy Chalochitro

CENTRAL ASIA

William Dalrymple (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and
writer, art historian and curator, as well as an award-winning broadcaster and critic.His books have won
numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book
Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński and
the Wolfson Prizes. He has been four times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson
Prize for non-fiction. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature
Festival.

In Xanadu (1989)

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1994)

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997)

The Age of Kali (1998)

White Mughals (2002)

Begums, Thugs & White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes (2002)

The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 (2006)

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. London, Bloomsbury. (2009)

•The Writer’s Eye (2016)

•The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (2019)

Peter Hopkirk was born in Nottingham, the son of Frank Stewart Hopkirk, a prison chaplain, and Mary
Perkins. He grew up at Danbury, Essex, notable for the historic palace of the Bishop of Rochester.
Hopkirk was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford. The family hailed originally from the borders of
Scotland in Roxburghshire where there was a rich history of barbaric raids and reivers hanging justice. It
must have resonated with his writings in the history of the lawless frontiers of the British Empire.

Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa, 1982

Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia, 1984

•On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Great Game and the Great War, 1994

•Quest for Kim: in Search of Kipling's Great Game, 1996

•The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, John Murray, 1990

•Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia,
1980

•Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, 1995

•A Traveller's Companion to Central Asia, 1994

Like Hidden Fire the Plot To Bring Down the British Empire

On Secret Service East Of Constantinople

Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive. He is currently the
dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R.
Luce Professor of Journalism. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he served as the president and CEO of
the New America think tank from 2007 to 2012.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to
September 10, 2001

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Bin Ladens

On the Grand Trunk Road

•The Taking of Getty Oil

•The Deal of the Century

ARABIC TRADITION

Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was
regarded as the Palestinian national poet.He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used
Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession
and exile.He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam,
the man of action whose action is poetry."He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in
Israel.
Asafir bila ajniha (Wingless birds), 1960

Awraq Al-Zaytun (Leaves of olives), 1964

Ashiq min filastin (A lover from Palestine), 1966

Akhir al-layl (The end of the night), 1967

Yawmiyyat jurh filastini (Diary of a Palestinian wound), 1969

Habibati tanhad min nawmiha (My beloved awakens), 1969

al-Kitabah 'ala dhaw'e al-bonduqiyah(Writing in the light of the gun), 1970

al-'Asafir tamut fi al-jalil (Birds are Dying in Galilee), 1970

Mahmoud Darwish works, 1971. Two volumes

Mattar na'em fi kharif ba'eed (Light rain in a distant autumn) 1971

Ali Ahmad Said Esber (born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis is
a Syrianpoet, essayist and translator who is considered one of the most influential and dominant Arab
poets of the modern era.He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting
a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world.

•1982:The blood of Adonis

•1982: Transformations of the Lover.

•1990: An Introduction to Arab Poetics.

•1992: The poetics of T.S. Eliot and Adunis

•1994: The Pages of Day and Night

•2003: If Only the Sea Could Sleep

•2004: A Time Between Ashes and Roses

•2005: Sufism and Surrealism

•2008: Mihyar of Damascus

•2008: Victims of A Map

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Loung Ung was born April 17, 1970 is a Cambodian-born American human-rights activist and lecturer.
She is the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World. Between 1997 and 2003,
she served in the same capacity for the "International Campaign to Ban Landmines", which is affiliated
with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)

Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness

•Brother number one

•A History of Cambodia

•When the War is Over

Simon Winchester, OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his
career at The Guardiannewspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody
Sundayand the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to more than a dozen
nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several travel magazines
1975 – In Holy Terror

1976 – American Heartbeat

1983 – Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj (by Jan Morris; photographs by Simon Winchester)

1983 – Prison Diary: Argentina

1984 – Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain

1985 – Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (also published under the
title The Sun Never Sets)

1988 – Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

1991 – Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture

1992 – Hong Kong: Here Be Dragons (by Rich Browne, James Marshall and Simon Winchester)

1992 – Pacific Nightmare: How Japan Starts World War III : A Future History (a novel)