Ian Rankin was born in the UK Fife reported in 1960. After graduating from university, he worked as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist, and the lead singer of punk band. He published poetry during school, and later turned to write novels. Rankinf completed three novels while working towards a PhD. The last one of these three novels is the first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses, which made him famous when he was only 27 years old.

 

This detective novel filled with horror and suspense caused readers’ responses that urged Rankin to continue writing for 20 years. His 17 novels for the series were sold into 31 countries and made him one of the most important contemporary British novelists.

 

Rankin’s literary achievement in Britain is high. He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a winner of the prestigious Chandler-Fulbright Award. In 2002, Rankin was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. In 2005 he received the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, the youngest winner ever.

Woolrich was in 1903 born in New York City. Because his parents divorced Woolrich spent his childhood with his father and returned to his mother until he became an adolescent. He attended Columbia University in 1921, but decided to drop out a year before graduation in order to pursuit his dream of literary creation.

 

Woolrich’s early six "jazz age" novels recorded the contemporary youth’s search for music, love and life direction. His second novel Children of the Ritz, 1927, won a contract of screenplay for Woolrich, and made him get the chance to a career in Hollywood. Since 1934, Woolrich abandon his literary dream, and turned to write detective novels. This transition quickly drew much attention, and he sold hundreds of short stories. In the 1940s, Woolrich began to publish lengthy detective novels. He published a total of eleven novels: The Bride Wore Black, Phantom Lady, Deadline at Dawn, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz into Darkness, I Married to a Dead Man, and so on, which made him a superstar of crime writer and brought him substantial income. In his late years, he suffered from diabetes, alcoholism, loneliness and self-hatred. Though he never stopped writing, he often gave up halfway and had more drafts than completed work. Woolrich died in 1968.

Cecelia Ahern was born on September 30, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland. Ahern obtained a degree in Journalism and Media Communications and she is the daughter of the former Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahern.

When Cecelia Ahern was twenty-one, he wrote her first novel, PS, I Love You. It is sold in over 40 countries, and was one of the bestselling debut novels in 2004. The book was adapted into a movie. It reached number 1 in Ireland, and in the UK Sunday Times bestseller list. It also sells well in Europe and U.S., and stayed on the bestseller list in Germany over a year. Cecelia Ahern was nominated for Best Newcomer 2004/5 at the British Book Awards for her debut novel PS, I Love You.

So far, Ahern has published six novels, which are sold more than 12 million copies in 48 countries. She also produced the popular ABC comedy Samantha Who? which received Emmy Award.

Han Han was born on September 23, 1982 in Shanghai. In 1991, his first year of high school, Han won first prize in China's New Concept Writing Competition with his essay, Seeing Ourselves in a Cup.

Han's first novel, Triple Door, describes his won life as a third-year junior school student. With over two million copies printed, this novel is China's bestselling literary work in the last 20 years and made Han the representative writer of “the post-80s generation”. Han published a series of essays — One Degree Below Freezing, Press Release 2003, And I Drift, and Miscellaneous Essays and novels — Triple Door, Like a Speeding Youth, Riot in Chang'an City , A Fortress, Glory Days, His Kingdom, and 1988: I Want to Talk with the World. Han published his first essay collection in traditional Chinese, Youth, in Taiwan in October 2010. Han Han was listed Person of the year 2009 by Asia Weekly, and Century Weekly. Time magazine called him as "China’s Literary Bad Boy" and "one of the most popular bloggers in the world"

Later, fueled by his love of racing, Han became a professional driver and wrote less frequently but he continued to write comments on current affairs and articles to express feelings on his blog, and many of which caused great concern in the society. Up to December 7, 2010, the number of visitors of Han's Sina blog reached 438.93 million!

Robert McCammon was born in 1952 in Alabama. He was addicted to the works of Edgar Allan Poe in his childhood, so he works filled with supernatural and mysterious elements, southern American life style and techniques of magical realism.

 

In 1978, McCammon began writing thrillers. In 1985, he became the regular of the New York Times bestseller list. In 1991, he wrote a book for himself, Boy’s Life.  In 1992, this book faced cynical and mocking reviews from publishers, saying McCammon betrayed the principles of best-sellers. In 1993, the publisher refused to publish his next “written for himself” book and forced him to return to the so-called best-selling line, which made McCammon give up being a best-selling author and retired from writing for a decade.

 

In the past two decades, the Boy’s Life was gradually adopted as literature textbook by the U.S. high schools. A Texas high school teacher said: "This book is every teacher's dream. This is a story that makes readers forget to eat and sleep, a story that makes so many students who hate to read become bookworms, and complete the first lesson of their life education"

Born in New Jersey in 1943, Janet Evanovich began writing novels in her thirties. She was unable to sell her first three works. As she prepared to give up writing, her other novels written under the pen name Steffie Hall finally won the favor of publishers and began her career of writing.

However, after the series of Elsie Hawkins romance novels, Evanovich decided to try to write some different themes.

Inspired by the movie Midnight Run, Evanovich decided to write "Bounty Hunter" Stephanie Plum series. The first episode of the series One for the Money was published to good reviews, not only short-listed the Edgar Allan Poe Award and Agatha Award but also won the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association and the Dilys Award for best novel by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Her next book Two for the Dough was also award-winner, and reached number one on bestseller list of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Dallas Morning News, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today and American Booksellers Association. The third novel of Stephanie Plum Three to Get Deadly won the Silver Dagger Award by the British Crime Writers’ Association.

John Grisham was born in Arkansas in 1955. He graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law. Grisham was a former practicing lawyer, and state legislator. As a former lawyer, John Grisham creates stories with solid logic and well-planned interlocking plot based on his professional training. In 1987, Grisham finished his first novel A Time to Kill. Even the market reacted coolly, he did not given up. In 1991, he continued to publish his second novel, The Firm, which became an instant bestseller, and made Grisham the most popular American writers. His first five novels all made to the top of the bestselling list.

Grisham has published more than 20 novels, all best-selling books, and seven of his novels were adapted as movies. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and sold over 250 million copies worldwide. Grisham also created the "the movie decides to start shooting while the fiction is not yet finished" pattern of Hollywood movie production.

John Grisham books include The Client, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Street Lawyer, The Partner, The Testament, The King of Torts, The Associate and other books.

Thierry Cohen was born in Casablanca, Morocco and grew up in Villeurbanne, France. Cohen studied psychology, sociology, communications and business, and worked in communications advertising in Paris. His unique background and extensive knowledge of psychology and sociology makes Cohen able to give profound analysis of the transition of the roles in his novels, and he is also good at using interpersonal conflict to create the climax of the plot. Plus his advertising communications background let him know how to use movie storyboard, which allows his novels to present excitement like a movie.

J’aurais prefere vivre is the Cohen’s debut. The fresh style of writing and the special creativity won him the Grand Prix Jean d’Ormesson du roman francais de l’ete in the summer of 2007.  J’aurais prefere vivre was translated into eleven languages and is also adapting into a film.

Richard. Matheson, well-known master of sci-fi thriller, was born in New Jersey in 1926. Matheson is talented writer. In addition to novels in the mystery, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and western genres, Matheson has been a prolific writer of film and television scripts. 1980's Somewhere in Time, 1998’s What Dreams May Come True starring Robin Williams, and 2007’s I Am Legend starring Will Smith are adapted from the fictions and the scripts written by Matheson.

His works have great influence on many well-known contemporary writers. Stephen King called Richard Matheson "the author who influenced me most as a writer" Ray Bradbury called him as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Dean Koontz says, "We’re a lot richer to have Richard Matheson among us."

In his over five-decade writing career, Richard Matheson won numerous prestigous awards and prizes, including the World Fantasy Convention's Life Achievement Award, the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement, the Hugo Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Writer's Guild Award, and the Golden Spur Award.

Graham Greene was an English author, born in 1904. Greene was called "the greatest novelist of our time". Greene worked as unpaid intern journalist, and then as a sub-editor on The Times. Greene first published his novel The Man Within in 1929. However, his first three novels didn’t draw many attentions. He was successful until Stamboul Train published in 1932.

Green’s works are abundant, he wrote 25 novels include The Heart of the Matter, Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, and The Honorary Consul, and a large collection of short stories, travelogues, essays, plays, autobiography, and children's books. Some people called the fictional world that he created the "Greenland”. Greene is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He was nominated the Nobel Prize 21 times, but never won the prize because most of the work is classified as entertainment. Greene later lived in Nice, France, and died in 3 April 1991 in Switzerland.

Benoite Groult was born in 1920 in Paris and is the most important figure of France's
feminism. Because her parents deep related to the arts community, Groult had many
opportunities of exposure to the arts and literature in her childhood. After grew up, she
worked as a journalist for television and started her writing career. She worked as chief
editor of F Magazine and a permanent jury member for Prix Femina since 1982 until now.

Groult was married four times. Her first two marriages ended because her first husband died
the following year after they married and her second husband died only within two months of
their wedding. These experiences should have some impact on her writing, but most of the
influence comes from her feminist thinking.

In 1958, Journal à quatre mains, the first novel Groult wrote with her younger sister Flora,
immediately draw the attention of literary circle. Then both of them worked together and
published La part des choses in 1972, and essay collection Ainsi soit-elle in 1975. In 1988,
Groult completed her first full-length novel, Les Vaisseaux du Cœur, indnpently. The novel
immediately hit French literary circle after published and marked the peak of her career. It
sold 500,000 copies in France and sold over a million copies in Germany, staying on the
Germany bestselling list for 106 weeks, and was translated into 24 languages. In 1992, the
novel was made into a famous film "Salt on Our Skin."

In April 2010, she became Commander of the Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in
France because of her outstanding contribution to literature and art.

John Hart war born in North Carolina in 1965. Hart spent his childhood in Rowan County
where his works are set. He graduated from Davidson College with BA in French literature,
and master degrees of accounting and law. He worked as a banker, stock brokers, criminal
defense attorney, and later quit his job to become a writer. Hart’s debut, The King of Lies,
that is as short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Award, Anthony Award, Barry Award, and Macavity
Award, announced the arrival of a new talent. Later The King of Lies won the 2008 Edgar
Award for Best Novel, and Hart was regarded as the most irresistible literary genius. In 2009,
Hart’s third novel, The Last Child, beat the author of Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly, and
was awarded the British Iron Dagger Award. In 2010, The Last Child once again won the
Edgar Award for Best Novel. The Last Child won the two highest honors of both Atlantic
sides. The Washington Post praised John Hart that although Hart only published three works,
but his description of characters’ feelings, and his writing skills have reached the benchmark
set by masters like Mark Twain and William Faulkner, and predicted that the young writer will
eventually become a master.

Don DeLillo is one of four important American writers and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. He is also a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Literature. DeLillo has so far published more than ten of novels and three plays, the other short stories and essays. There have been reviews called he was "another type of Balzac" because he painted portrait of the situation of post-modern life.

Don DeLillo was born in New York in 1936 in an Italian immigrant family. He moved with his parents to Pennsylvania in his childhood. He studied theology, philosophy and history in college. He did not like school life but found fun and learned some lessons from modern paintings, jazz, European film and avant-garde art in Greenwich Village was fun and lessons learned. After graduate from college in 1958, Don DeLillo took a job in advertising agency and spent his spare time in writing.

His novels have won Guggenheim Fellowship and Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. DiLillo’s novel White Noise (1985) is an important work that began DeLillo’s rapid ascendancy to being a noted and respected novelist. This book not only won that year's National Book Award but also was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It is known as the most classic masterpiece of post-modern American literature. Scholar Mark Osteen praised the book as "American Book of the Dead."

In 1989, Don DeLillo had a whim to write Khomeini. In 1992, he won PEN/Faulkner Award with novel Mao II. Then in 1997, he published a more than 800-page masterpiece, Underworld, describing the American society in the latter half of twentieth century, made a huge impact on the United States and literature world. This serious novel that discussed issue like no others became an internationally No. 1 bestseller unexpectedly.

The impact of Don DeLillo's works force is comprehensive. Not only his White Noise is taught in universities, but also many of today's American novelists learned from him and some famous pop singers write songs to praise him, Paul Auster even dedicated his Leviathan and In the Country of Last Things to DeLillo for respect. The British novelist and critic Martin Amis praised him as "the greatest contemporary American writer." His works crossed the boundaries of time and place and are always close to the pulse of modern life and affected many readers in the past decades. Don DeLillo also will stand immortal in the history of world literature.

Chiang-Sheng Kuo is the professor of Department of English, National Dong Hwa University. Kuo is a rare cultural worker that has extensive knowledge of both Chinese and western literature. Kuo is a critic, scholar, theater director and writer.

Chiang-Sheng Kuo published his debut novel on special issue of New Talent of United Daily at age of 16. After graduated from Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of National Taiwan University, he published his first collection of short stories, Companion, and is subject to literary attention. Later, Kuo set the trend of modern urban fiction in the 80s Taiwan with his novel Take Out Your Handkerchief and Do Not Dance When You Are Sad.

Kuo later studied in America and obtained Ph.D of Drama from New York University. During this period, Kuo won First Prize of Times Literary Award for Drama with Not about Sex and First Prize of Original Screenplay from Cultural Affairs with Give Me a Star.

In 2000, Kuo returned to Taiwan to teach in National Dong Hwa University Department of English. He also participated in the creation of the first Institute of creative writing in Chinese-speaking world that cultivates numerous contemporary Taiwanese writers.

Kuo’s recent works are repeatedly included in important anthologies, such as Annual Best Essays, Annual Best Fictions, Best Taiwanese Literature Works for 30 Years, and The Pen Association of ROC. Kuo has published more than twenty works in Chinese and English Literature criticism Ghost Nation: Rethinking American Gothic After 9 / 11.

Hilary Mantel was born in Derbyshire, in 1952. She studied law at The London School of Economics and University of Sheffield. In 1987, Mantel won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize with an article describing Jeddah (a Red Sea Coast city). Two years later, Mantel won Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, The Cheltenham Prize, and the Southern Arts Literature Prize with novel Fludd, set in a northern England mill town. After that, she published more award-winning works, including A Place of Greater Safety, the Sunday Express Book of the Year, which reproduced the magnificent scenes of the French Revolution, Commander of the Order of the British Empire-winning, Beyond Black, Hawthornden Prize-winning An Experiment in Love, and personal memoirs, Giving Up the Ghost.

Mantel’s long novel Wolf Hall won Man Booker Prize and American National Book Critics Circle award. It can be described as Mantel’s representative work. James Naughtie, Chair of Judges, described Wolf Hall as an "extraordinary piece of storytelling. Hilary Mantel has given us a thoroughly modern novel set in the 16th century. Wolf Hall has a vast narrative sweep that gleams on every page with luminous and mesmerising detail.”

Hilary Mantel now lives in London with her husband.

Dashkova, the most beautiful Russian writer, is a lady with quite a character and persistence. Dashkova smokes, but does not drink. She is a vegetarian, does not eat meat, and like ballet, dogs, and travel. Her husband for 28 years and her two daughters are the biggest support of her writing. Her pen name "Dashkova" is derived from her little girl's name.

She is a graduate of Moscow’s Gorki Literary Institute. She has been an active radio and print journalist. Since 7-year old, Dashkova knew she wanted to write novels and she only writes novels full of adventure, conspiracy and vivid characters.

As a media worker, Dashkova knows how difficult for a woman to in the society, therefore, the leading characters in her novels are always women, who seem weak, but have a surprisingly mysterious character. Because of her delicate description of the psychological state of her characters and the sharp criticism of contemporary society, Dashkova uses her unique and sexy style sold a total of 40 million copies her works so far (not including sold in Russian black market) and won her the title "Queen of Crime Fiction." German media also calls her "Russia's Agatha Christie."

Dashkova published her first novel in 1996. Her novels include Golden Sand, Air time, Sun of the Corner, Masked Angel, No More Cry, and a dozen of popular novels.

Tatiana de Rosnay was born in 1961 in Paris. She is of English, French and Russian descent. Tatiana moved to Boston in the 70’s, when her father taught at MIT. She returned to Paris in 1984 and became editor for Vanity Fair magazine.

 

Since 1992, Tatiana has published eight novels in France. Sarah’s Key is her first novel written in her mother tongue, English. Since Sarah’s Key publishing in English market in 2007, it not only keeps staying on The New York Times bestseller list, but sold more one million in US only.  While in Europe, Sarah’s Key even outsells "Elegance of Hedgehog" and made Tatiana surpass many French masters and become the best-selling French author in Europe in 2009.

Tatiana de Rosnay’s success is not by chance. The language of her novel is close to the readers with strong control and exaggeration of the plot. Even the repeated theme as Nazi and concentration camp can have the elegant performance in her writing. In 2008, de Rosnay won the French "Corsican Prize" and "Choix des libraries” with Sarah’s Key and became most looking forward French writer. Tatiana de Rosnay is definitely the most anticipated major writer in European and English market in recent years.

Shen Shixi is formerly known as Shen Yiming, Shanghainese. Shen started to write in early 1908 and has published more than 5 million words. His animal fictions integrate story, fun and knowledge together, and are full of philosophical meaning and unique style.

 

Shen is well known for his folk legend style. He is good at understanding animal behavior and psychology, and his depicting is vivid. His books included "Seventh Hound," "A Hunting Eagle's Experiences," "Red Goats," "Hatred of Mother Elephant," "Handicapped Wolf Hui Man," "Half-Blood Jackal King" and so on. All won different literary awards for outstanding works. The "Dream of Wolf King" won the fourth Yang Huan Children's Literature Award. "Nanny Python" won the Government Information Office Golden Tripod Award in 1996 for excellent recommended book. "Wolf's Wife," "Black Bear Dancer," " Beauty and the Lion," "Wild Dog Sisters" and "Female Tiger Golden Leaf" were also recommended by Taiwan's major newspapers. His works have been translated into English, Japanese, French and other foreign languages and widely welcomed by readers around the world.

Yan Eilin was born in Shiaying, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1968. She graduated from Department of History, Fu Jen Catholic University, and studied at Department of Language and Creative Writing of National Taipei University of Education. Yan worked as consultant for Taipei County Government, Tien Education Culture, and Korean literature quarterly journal "Poetic Comment" Taiwan area. She was awarded the "Outstanding Youth Award for Publication" by Chinese Publishing Association, the 40th anniversary of Genesis Selected Poetry Award, the Excellence Award of Poetry by Council for Cultural Affairs, and National Outstanding Poet Award and other awards; and served as an important juror for literature prizes and lecturer of art and literature classes, literary event planner and host, and advisor to official cultural activities.

Yan is the author of "Yan Eilin Secret Pocket", "Ever", "Abstract Map", "Bone, Skin and Flesh", "The Moment the Moon Come Out", "Cartoon Nose", "Spring in the Dark", "Play Games with the Sky," " Call the Names of All Things”, " Let Poetry Fly Up", "Her Side", "Poetic Aperture in the Garden", etc. Her important poems have been translated into English, French, Korean, and Japanese, and were selected to a variety of teaching materials in different languages. Yan has been employing as a professional by Yuan Ze University, Shih Hsin University, Indigenous Education Center, and National Hsinchu University of Education as lecturer, resident artist and reading group teacher since 2005.

John Updike is known as giant of English literature. He published numerous fictions, poetry, essays and criticisms, and he is also the most award-winning writer in American history. Haruki Murakami, his big admirer, in his book "The Best Place to Reading John Updike" described: “Reading John Updike will mind you the spring of 1968." Critics all agreed that the publishing of "Rabbit, Run” (1960) is a major breakthrough of his literary career. "Rabbit, Run" is the first of the Rabbit series. The rest are "Rabbit Redux” (1971), “Rabbit Is Rich” (1981) and "Rabbit at Rest” (1990). This series of works describes not only the life of young "Rabbit" from the high school basketball star to his married life, but also his affairs and rich at middle-age, to his death,  showing the whole picture of the United States society of four decades after the WWII.

Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving high school she spent 8 years living on the road. She completed her bachelor's degree in illustration at Brighton University and published her first book Wolves in 2005. Wolves won both the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award that year. She utilizes features of pencil and carbon pen to bring an exquisite and tense style into full play; her simple narrative with appropriate blank also provides space for reader's imagination. She has published award-winning books and is definitely potential to be a great children's books author.

Emily Gravett now lives with her husband, her daughter and her dog in Brighton England. Her husband is a plumber, responsible for repairing all leaking things. Their daughter likes to read, and their dog is busy finding a small piece of paper to eat everyday.

Tony Parsons began his career as a music journalist on the NME. He interviewed every big name in music business from The Sex Pistols, Blondie, The Clash, to Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review program The Late Show. Parsons' won the British Book Awards winning novel Man and Boy remains best-selling and creates a publishing miracle, having sold more than 2 million and being published in 36 languages. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels - Man and Wife, One For My Baby, and The Family Way. He currently lives in London.

Alain de Botton was born in Zurich in 1969. De Botton received education in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He speaks French, German and English. De Botton lives in London.

De Botton is talented and his works are both intellectual and interest. He is not only popular in the UK; foreign publishers are also keen to publish his works. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. De Botton also assisted in the creation of The School of Life (http://www.theschooloflife.com/).

Book reviewer Cressida Connolly praised de Botton is "the boy wonder of contemporary English literature." The other book reviewer Philip Glazebrook said, "Such a writer could write the biography of a broomstick... and it would come alive under his pen." Famous travel writer Jan Morris also said, "I doubt if he has written a dull sentence in his life."

De Botton's works include The Consolation of Philosophy, Essays in Love, The Romantic Movement, Kiss & Tell, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Art of Travel, Status Anxiety, The Architecture of Happiness (all are published by Prophet Press, The Eurasian Publishing Group).

Bi is often called China's best male writer on the female psyche. Bi has won Lu Xun Prize for literature, China Fiction Institute Award, Feng Mu Literature Prize, Red Eagle Award for Literature of Chinese Writers, Xiao Shuo Xuan Kan Award for Fiction, Dangdai Annual Best Novel Award, Best River Novel Prize of People's Literature, Contemporary Chinese Literature Academy Award, and Biennial Award of Chinese Fiction

Bi's works include 4-volume Bi Feiyu Collection and novels Three Sisters, The Plain, Massage, Moon Opera, Shanghai Triad, and Who Is Talking at Night, etc.

Ayako Miura 1922-1999

Ayako Miura was born in the town of Asahikawa, on Hokkaidō in 1922.

Her debut novel, "Freezing Point", was published in 1963, and defeated many famous writers and won the Asahi Shimbun's Ten Million Yen Award.

By the end of 1964, "Freezing Point" serialized in the Asahi Shimbun for nearly a year, during that period it swept men and women all over Japan, caused readers to read, discuss and resonate. "Freezing Point" was sold stunning 5 million copies and was adapt into movies, television dramas and stage plays several times.

Miura has published numerous works including novels, essays and memories. Many of her novels are considered best-sellers, and a number have been made into movies, radio plays and TV dramas. Her important works include "Freezing Point" series, "Mud Slide Era", "Shiokari Pass", "Hidden Ranges", "Mother," and "Gun Point" and so on. Her works revolve the theme of human sin, and reveal humanitarian care. Miura was awarded the "Hokkaido Development Merit Award" because Hokkaidō are frequently the settings of her novels.

Liao received doctoral degree in Chinese literature in Soochow University, and currently works as professor of Department of Language and Writing, Taipei University of Education, teaching creative writing, film and theater courses. She received Medal of Arts from Chinese Writers' and Artists' Association, Zhongshan Literary and Artistic Creation Award and Wu Lu Qin Restoration Literary Prize for Literature.

Her works includes dozen of essay collection "Not to Believe to Cannot Call Back Tenderness" "Charming", "If the Memory is Like the Wind", "Impolite", "A Teacher Like Me", "Far-sighted Princess", "Down to Earth", and novels "Bet His Life", "Light Blue Bubbles", picture book "Bright", interview transcription, "Interview with Butterfly Catcher" and the academic works "Detailing Peach Blossom Fan", "Life is Sentient" and so on. Her works have been selected for the high-school literature curriculum and a variety of anthology.

Matsumoto was born in Kokura (Kitakyushu City Kokura Today, the North District). Before worked for the western head office of Asahi Shimbun Matsumoto worked as janitor, printing worker, etc. At age 41, Matsumoto's "Nishigo Note" was short listed Naoki Prize. In 1953, He was awarded Akutagawa Award for "Diary of Kokura". In 1958 Matsumoto published his masterpiece Points and Lines which brought the new "social realism" style to detective novel writing. He devoted his life to writing. His works have wide range of topics and cross from ancient to modern times. His famous works include "Ambush", "Black Paintings" (published by New Rain Publishing), "Japan's Black Mist", "Eye of the Wall" and so on.

Jenny Yu Chih Chang was born 1951 and graduated from Accounting Department of Soochow University in 1973. Her continuous sufferings from local Chus\' politicians over the years made her start to write since 1998. Writings become a way for her to release her pain. Under the hardship, she established YuChih Publishing Firm in 2006 for the first book \"A Virgin Struggle (English Version)\". In 2008, she might be the starter of Taiwan to use Lulu POD technology website to self-publish \"My Struggle (English Version 1)\". \r\n\r\nIn the last month, she increased the registered capital to NT$500,000 for YuChih publishing Firm with the money of early 2 years applied “Old Age Pay”. She is still the only one to own YuChih publishing Firm. Although book marketing is difficult, publishing and writing become her career to go. \r\n\r\nHer story was not a colorful and successful story. It was told to be strong for surviving after cruel sufferings. Life has to tolerate all the difficulties and fight for justice.

Pérez-Reverte is favorite author of the readers and critics of current Spain's literary world. His works are not only the perfect combination of literary connotation, reading entertainment and artistic altitude, but also often stay on bestselling list.

The 55-year-old novelist now at peak of his career was originally a journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for nine years out of his more than twenty years journalistic career, risking his life and reporting news in the front line of Western Sahara, Equatorial Guinea, Lebanon, and the Bosnian war. He became widely known hero of Spain. Pérez-Reverte's rich reporting experiences cultivated his keen insight and rapid writing speed.

Pérez-Reverte started to write while working as journalist. He maintained exuberant creativity and publish one full-length novel every year since his debut work "El húsar" in 1986. Up to now, Pérez-Reverte published 16 novels and a serious historical adventure novel with leading character Captain Alatriste. His works are not only well received by readers but also won important literary awards at home or abroad. His works also sold into many countries and sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

Pérez-Reverte was elected a member of the Spanish Royal Academy in 2003. It's not too far to call this contemporary bestselling author and whose works have been sold into most countries "national writer" of Spain.

Ayako Sono was born in Tokyo in 1931. She graduated from Department of English Language and Literature of University of The Scared Heart Tokyo. She was married to writer Shumon Miura in 1953. Her work Enrai No Kyaku Tachi (Visitors from Afar) was short listed for the Akutagawa Prize in 1954. That piece attracted a considerable attention. Since then the people's sin and desire, faith, family, old age, and education are often topics of her novels and essays. In addition, Sono spared no efforts to participate social activities, served as members of the various committees, and took position as the chairperson of the "Nippon Foundation". In 1979, Sono was given the La Croce Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (The Vatican), and won many literary awards. Her works include Free Soul, Happiness in the City, After Middle Age, Green Fingers: the Joy of Gardening, The Aesthetics of Old Age (published by Commonwealth Publishing Co., Ltd.), A Nameless Monument, A note of Admonition to the Old, Visitors from Afar (published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.,Ltd.) and Ayako Sono collection-7 volumes, etc.