[{"n": "Sanmao (writer)", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/sanmao-writer/", "s": "Taiwanese writer and translator known for autobiographical works and The Stories of the Sahara."}, {"n": "Sei Shōnagon", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/sei-sh-nagon/", "s": "Heian court lady and author of The Pillow Book, as translated by Arthur Waley."}, {"n": "Shen Congwen", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/shen-congwen/", "s": "Chinese writer of native soil literature who later became a historian of artifacts."}, {"n": "Shin Kyung-sook", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/shin-kyung-sook/", "s": "South Korean novelist and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize."}, {"n": "Shūsaku Endō", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/sh-saku-end/", "s": "Japanese Catholic author of Silence."}, {"n": "Su Shi", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/su-shi/", "s": "Song dynasty literatus, exiled official, and prolific artist."}, {"n": "Takeo Arishima", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/takeo-arishima/", "s": "Japanese novelist and central figure of the Shirakaba literary group"}, {"n": "Takiji Kobayashi", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/takiji-kobayashi/", "s": "Japanese writer of proletarian literature, died under torture."}, {"n": "Takizawa Bakin", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/takizawa-bakin/", "s": "Edo-period novelist and author of the epic Hakkenden."}, {"n": "Taslima Nasrin", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/taslima-nasrin/", "s": "Writer and speaker at the 2016 Kerala Literature Festival."}, {"n": "Ueda Akinari", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/ueda-akinari/", "s": "Japanese author of ghost stories and yomihon masterpieces."}, {"n": "Wu Cheng'en", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/wu-cheng-en/", "s": "Ming-era writer traditionally credited with the classic novel Journey to the West."}, {"n": "Xiao Hong", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/xiao-hong/", "s": "Chinese writer of the Republican era, known for tragic lyrical prose."}, {"n": "Yasunari Kawabata", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/yasunari-kawabata/", "s": "First Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature."}, {"n": "Yasushi Inoue", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/yasushi-inoue/", "s": "Japanese writer of historical and autobiographical fiction."}, {"n": "Yi Cheong-jun", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/yi-cheong-jun/", "s": "South Korean novelist of the 4.19 Generation."}, {"n": "Yukio Mishima", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/yukio-mishima/", "s": "Japanese novelist and far-right activist who died by seppuku."}, {"n": "Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/abd-al-rahman-al-majdoub/", "s": "Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic whose verses became proverbs across the Maghreb."}, {"n": "Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/abdullah-ibn-al-mu-tazz/", "s": "Abbasid prince, poet, and one-day caliph."}, {"n": "Adi ibn Zayd", "u": "/e/asian-literary-voices/adi-ibn-zayd/", "s": "6th-century Arab Christian poet and Sasanian court secretary."}]