Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)

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1. Yukio Mishima

   Author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask, Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

2. Yasunari Kawabata

   Author of Snow Country, Beauty and Sadness, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
   All: (2 members)

3. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

   Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, Some Prefer Nettles
   All: (2 members)

4. Jean Genet

   Author of Our Lady of the Flowers, Funeral Rites, The Screens
   All: (1 member)

5. Haruki Murakami

   Author of A Wild Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance, The Elephant Vanishes
   All: (2 members)

6. Sōseki Natsume

   Author of Kokoro, I Am a Cat, Botchan
   All: (2 members)

7. Kōbō Abe

   Author of The Woman in the Dunes, The Ruined Map, Beyond the Curve
   All: (1 member)

8. Kenzaburō Ōe

   Author of A Personal Matter, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
   All: (1 member)

9. André Gide

   Author of The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, La Symphonie Pastorale
   All: (2 members)

10. Osamu Dazai

    Author of No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, Blue Bamboo
    All: (3 members)

11. Marguerite Yourcenar

    Author of Memoirs of Hadrian, The Abyss, Mishima: A Vision of the Void

12. Italo Calvino

    Author of Marcovaldo, or the seasons in the city, The Uses of Literature, Our Ancestors

13. Edmund White

    Author of A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, The Married Man

14. Alan Hollinghurst

    Author of The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell

15. Banana Yoshimoto

    Author of NP, Goodbye Tsugumi, Lizard
    All: (2 members)

16. Thomas Mann

    Author of The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian LeverKuhn as told by a friend

17. Günter Grass

    Author of The Tin Drum, Dog Years

18. Kazuo Ishiguro

    Author of The Unconsoled, An Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills
    All: (2 members)

19. Henry Scott Stokes

    Author of The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

20. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

    Author of Rashomon and Other Stories, Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, Kappa
    All: (1 member)