Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell. Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani. Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. Kazushige Abe ; translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich. Shusaku Endo ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston.