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Robert Charles Epp (born December 15, 1926) [1] is a translator of Japanese literature into English. Among others, he has translated the poetry of Hagiwara Sakutarō , Maruyama Kaoru , Tachihara Michizō , and Daisaku Ikeda .
His best-selling five-volume Card College series is considered to be a standard modern textbook for card magic, and is the most widely translated series of books in the history of magic. [1] He has also published articles and essays about magic in more than 50 magazines in Europe and overseas, including essays and columns for 14 consecutive ...
Cover of the first edition translation by Robert van Gulik. The Dutch sinologist and diplomat Robert van Gulik came across a copy in a second-hand book store in Tokyo and translated the novel into English. He then used it as the basis to create his own original Judge Dee stories over the next 20 years. Van Gulik wrote:
V. J. James is an Indian writer who primarily writes in Malayalam language. His first book, Purapaadinte Pusthakam , was published by DC Books as the winning work in the novel competition conducted as a part of its 25th anniversary celebration in 1999.
Henderson's Boys is a young adult series of spy novels by the English author Robert Muchamore. The series follows Charles Henderson, the creator of the fictitious CHERUB organisation. The novels are set between 1940 and 1945, during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War. Throughout the novels, Henderson leads a series of war ...
Onmyōji (陰陽師) is a series of historical fantasy short stories and novels written by Japanese author Baku Yumemakura.It follows the story of a fictionalized version of the Heian period onmyōji Abe no Seimei, a master in onmyōdō, a traditional Japanese form of cosmology.
Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 – April 1972), [1] was a British scholar of French literature, writer, translator and joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
Robert Szmidt joined the Polish Science Fiction fandom in the early 80s and soon became a co-founder of the Sphinx Award, which later was renamed the Zajdel Award. [2] In 1985 he was awarded the Śląkfa Prize as The Fan Of The Year. [2]