Representative Texts and Authors from Asia and Africa

Li Po/Li Bai (china)

Known for his use of conversational tone and vivid imagery (poetry) wrote “Alone and Drinking under the Moon”

Ali Ahmad Said Esber/ Adonis (middle east)

Recipient of the 2011 Goethe prize and the 2017 PEN/Nabokov award. First Poems and Leaves in the Wind.

Taha Hussein (middle east)

The Dean of Arabic Literature “the days”

Abe Kobo/Abe Kimifusa (japan)

Novelist and playwright “Tomodachi” won the 1967 Akutagawa Award. won the 1951 Akutagawa Award for his short novel “Kabe”

Kimitake Hiraoka/Mishima Yukio (japan)

Most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century. “The temple of Golden Pavilion” and won Yomiuri Prize for the best novel.

Rabindranath Tagore (india)

“The Bard of Bengal” Bengali poet short story writer etc… won the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature award for “Gitanjali”

Wang Wei (China)

Tang Dynasty “A Farmhouse on the Wei River

Chart Korbjitti (Thailand)

The most successful Thai writer “Khamphiphaksa”. Book of The Year by Thai Literature Council and Won S.E.A. Write Award

Tengku Amir Hamzah (Indonesia)

Indo poet and National Hero of Indonesia. “Nyangi Sunyi”

Mo Yan (china)

He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum.

Haruki Murakami (japan)

Won the Internation Award Jerusalem Prize. Also won Gunzou literature prize for his first novel “hear the wind sing”

Yi Kwang Su (korea)

Wrote “the heartless” the first korean novel. Also the one who launched the modern literary movement with Ch’oe Nam-Seon

Nguyen Du (Vietnam)

The best loved poet and father of Vietnamese literature. “The Tale of Kieu”

Chinua Achebe (africa)

Nigerian Novelist, poet, critic, and professor and was honored as Grand Prix de la Memoir of the 2019 edition of Grand Prix Literary Associations. “Things Fall Apart”

Wole Soyinka (africa)

First Black African to be awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature “A Dance of the forests” (play”

Kofi Awoonor (africa)

Was a Ghanaian novelist and poet who wrote “This earth, My brother” a cross between a novel and a poem.

Nadine Gordimer (africa)

A South African writer and the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. “The Conservationist” Booker McConnell Prize joint winner

Okot p’ Bitek (africa)

Ugandian poet, novelist, and social anthropologist who wrote the three verse collections

Thomas Mofolo (africa)

was the greatest writer from the sotho people in Africa. “Chaka”