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Most of the works of literature from the Heian period that are still well-regarded today were written predominantly in kana. Diaries had been written by men in Chinese for some time, but in the early tenth century Ki no Tsurayuki chose to write his Tosa Nikki [ 6 ] from the standpoint of a woman, in kana .
Herbert Kawainui Kāne (June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011) was an American Hawaiian historian and artist. He is considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s.
Burton Dewitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American sinologist, translator, and writer known for his English translations of Chinese and Japanese literature. [1]
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Important literature. Kojiki (c. 711 CE) Nihon Shoki (720 CE) Fudoki (713–723 CE) Shoku Nihongi (797 CE) Kogo Shūi (807 CE) Kujiki (807–936 CE) Engishiki (927 CE)
Li Juan was born in 1979 in Kuytun City, Xinjiang. [1] Her parents were originally from Sichuan Province. [2] She began to publish her writing in 1999 and has since published more than ten essay collections. [3]
Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States.Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, [1] [2] the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End, [3] and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose. [4]
In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. [5] In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". [6] [7]