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Chino Yukiko , Japanese novelist Born and grew up in Tokyo Japan. Graduated from Aoyama –gakuin University French literature Department (catholique writers like Moriac , georges Bernanos, Julian Green) Played Aoinoue of Yukio Mishima’s modern No Play as actress on national theater in Tokyo. Kimono modele for kimono shows during early 80’ Did writings for most famous girls magazine called Olive and travel writings forANA inflight magazines ,during 80’ started to write stories on literary magazines. Traveled many countries, from Brazil to inuit village in Canada.

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Madeleine Thienwas born in Vancouver in 1974, the daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants who came to Canada in the early 1970s. She studied Dance at Simon Fraser Univesity before completing a degree in English Literature at the University of British Columbia. In 2001, Madeleine published her first book, Simple Recipes. A collection of short fiction, Simple Recipes tells the stories of families, many of them immigrants, in Vancouver's east side neighbourhoods. The book won four awards in Canada, including the Canadian Authors AssociationAward for Most Promising Canadian Writer under the age of 30,

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Gail Jones is the author of two collections of short stories, Fetish Lives and The House of Breathing. Her first novel, Black Mirror, won the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Fiction Prize in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2003. Her second novel, Sixty Lights, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004, shortlisted for the 2005 Miles Franklin Award, and won the 2005 Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction, and the Fiction and Premier's Prize in both the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 2004 and the South Australian Festival Award for Literature in 2006. Dreams of Speaking has been shortlisted in 2007 for the Miles Franklin Award, the NSW Premier's Award and the Nita B. Kibble Award. Her latest novel is Sorry.

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