Widely known among French readers as Saint-Ex, he was born in Lyon, France in 1900 at No. 8 Rue du Peyrat, which is now changed to Rue de Saint-Exupéry.

Apart from being a famous writer, he was also a poet and an aviation pioneer. Most of his work related to inspiration of flying such as Courrier Sud, Vol de Nuit, Terre des Homes, etc. For Le Petit Prince, his internationally renowned title, it is a philosophical story with a light touch of criticism on society and adults' behavior.

Born in 1973 at Klaeng, Rayong Province of Thailand, she is now working mainly as a French-to-Thai translator with a wide range of translated works.

Currently, she wears several hats: editor, columnist, housewife, blogger, webmaster, and one of the key persons in Gamme Magie Editions.

Legend has it that on a warm day in Spring 1974 while watching a baseball game Murakami-san had the inspiration to write his first novel, later called Hear the Wind sing.

It won him his first Literary award and is part of The Trilogy of the Rat together with Pinball 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase .

His career as an writer took off fast and a steady flow of Novels, Short Stories, Articles and Documentaries followed.

The fact that he spent a good part of his life outside Japan, mainly in the US and southern Europe, is maybe the key factor of his growing worldwide success.

The stories and settings are familiar to Westerners and yet there is a distinctive Japanese touch.

Born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran,Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author.

Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a communist family which was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lyc?e Fran?ais there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.

Noppadon Wechsawat

Born in 1951, Noppadon is one of top ten English-thai translators in Thailand.

Well-known for his unique style of translation, his works are extraordinarily various in both fiction and non-fiction. He has worked with us in our recent successful Haruki? Murakami Collection.

For more than 3 decades, he has translated 265 books with 100 sci-fi short stories and 100 mystery short stories.

?The (almost) complete list of his works (in Thai)