Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: 2000s

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Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian Poet and Playwright
(1930-2017)

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Name: Derek Walcott
Birth: January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia
Death: March 17, 2017, Gros Islet Quarter, Saint Lucia
Language: English
Who he was: Saint Lucian poet and playwright known for epic poem Omeros and play Dream on Monkey Mountain
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Frank Kermode, British Literary Critic
(1919-2010)

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Name: (John) Frank Kermode
Birth: November 29, 1919, Douglas, Isle of Man
Death: August 17, 2010, Cambridge, UK
Language: English
Who he was: British literary critic who wrote The Sense of an Ending
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born
British and American Writer (1927-2013)

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Name: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Birth: May 7, 1927, Cologne, Germany
Death: April 3, 2013, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's Room with a View and Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Umberto Eco, Italian Writer
(1932-2016)

Just the Facts:

Name: Umberto Eco
Birth: January 5, 1932, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Death: February 19, 2016, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Language: Italian
Who he was: Italian novelist, critic, and philosopher; The Name of the Rose; Foucault's Pendulum; The Island of the Day Before; The Prague Cemetery
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Amy Yamada, Japanese Writer
(1959 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Yamada Eimi
Also known as: Amy Yamada
Birth: February 8, 1959, Nakamarucho, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who she is: Japanese novelist and short story writer; Trash; Bedtime Eyes; The Piano Player's Fingers; 120% cool; Jesse

Spike Lee, American Filmmaker
(1957 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Shelton Jackson Lee
Known as: Spike Lee
Birth: March 20, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; She's Gotta Have It; Do the Right Thing; Mo' Better Blues; Jungle Fever; Malcolm X; Girl 6; Academy Honorary Award (2015)

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian-American Writer
(1967 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Known as: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth: July 11, 1967, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who she is: Indian American novelist and short story writer; Interpreter of Maladies; The Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth; The Lowland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)

Natasha Trethewey, American Poet
(1966 - )

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Name: Natasha Trethewey
Birth: April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American poet; Domestic Work; Native Guard; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2006); Poet Laureate of the US (2012–2014)

Yoshimoto Banana, Japanese Novelist
(1964 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Yoshimoto Mahoko
Known as: Yoshimoto Banana
Birth: July 24, 1964, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who she is: Japanese novelist; Moonlight Shadow; Kitchen; Goodbye Tsugumi; The Lake

Quentin Tarantino, American Filmmaker
(1963 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Quentin Tarantino
Birth: March 27, 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2; Inglourious Basterds; Django Unchained; two Academy Awards

Shimada Masahiko, Japanese Novelist
(1961 - )

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Name: Shimada Masahiko
Birth: March 13, 1961, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist; Music for the Kingdom of Somnambulism; The Dream Messenger

Barbara Kingsolver, American Writer
(1955 - )

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Name: Barbara Kingsolver
Birth: April 8, 1955, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American novelist, essayist, and poet; The Poisonwood Bible; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Pulitzer Finalist for Fiction (1999)

Mo Yan, Chinese Writer
(1955 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Guan Moye
Known as: Mo Yan
Birth: February 17, 1955, Gaomi, China
Language: Chinese
Who he is: Chinese novelist and short story writer; Red Sorghum Clan; The Republic of Wine; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Nobel Prize in Literature (2012)

Douglas Adams, English Writer
(1952-2001)

Just the Facts:

Name: Douglas Adams
Birth: March 11, 1952, Cambridge, England, UK
Death: May 11, 2001, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English author, essayist, satirist, and playwright; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Murakami Ryu, Japanese Writer
(1952 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Murakami Ryūnosuke
Known as: Murakami Ryu
Birth: February 19, 1952, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker; Almost Transparent Blue; Coin Locker Babies; In the Miso Soup

James Wilcox, American Novelist
(1949 - )

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Name: James Wilcox
Birth: April 4, 1949, Hammond, Louisiana, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American novelist; Modern Baptists
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Murakami Haruki, Japanese Writer
(1949 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Murakami Haruki
Birth: January 12, 1949, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist; A Wild Sheep Chase; Norwegian Wood; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Kafka on the Shore; 1Q84

Tsushima Yuko, Japanese Writer
(1947-2016)

Just the Facts:

Name: Tsushima Satoko
Known as: Tsushima Yuko
Birth: March 30, 1947, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Death: February 18, 2016, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who she was: Japanese writer, essayist and critic; Child of Fortune; Woman Running in the Mountains; The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories; Laughing Wolf

Annie Dillard, American Writer
(1945 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Annie Dillard
Birth: April 30, 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American writer; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Holy the Firm; For the Time Being; An American Childhood; The Maytrees; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1975)

Tobias Wolff, American Writer
(1945 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Tobias Wolff
Birth: June 19, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist; memoirs This Boy's Life; In Pharaoh's Army; novels Ugly Rumours; The Barracks Thief; Old School

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