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Taichi Yamada

Taichi Yamada worked at the world-renowned Shochiku film studios until he set out on a highly successful career as a freelance scriptwriter and novelist. Winner of the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize ... More
Geling Yan

Born in Shanghai to a writer and an actress, Geling Yan began writing in the late 1970s as a war correspondent covering the Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts. Her first novel was ... More
Mark Yarm

Mark Yarm is senior editor at Blender. He has written for numerous other publications, including Wired, Esquire, FHM, Spin, the Village Voice and Salon.com. More
Ting-Xing Ye

Ting-xing Ye, born in Shanghai in 1952, was an English interpreter for the Chinese government before leaving China in 1987. Her memoir, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, has been ... More
W.B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) was born in Dublin and was educated in Ireland and England. He was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre – and in particular ... More
J. B. Yeats

John Butler Yeats was born in County Down in 1839. Both his father and grandfather were Church of Ireland rectors. He followed them into Trinity College, but trained as a ... More
Malcolm Yorke

Malcolm Yorke has written biographies of Eric Gill, Keith Vaughan, Matthew Smith and Edward Bawden. His The Spirit of the Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists won the Yorkshire Post Art Book ... More
James Yorkston

Resident of the East Nuek of Fife, James Yorkston has been releasing a series of critically acclaimed albums on Domino Records since 2001 and toured the UK and Europe for ... More
Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world. More
Rob Young

Rob Young is a former editor of The Wire magazine and contributes to Uncut, Sight & Sound, Frieze and Art Review. His books include the record label histories Warp and ... More