Are both Tom Stoppard and Yasunari Kawabata a novelist?
Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as "Arcadia", "The Coast of Utopia", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Professional Foul", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". He co-wrote the screenplays for "Brazil", "The Russia House", and "Shakespeare in Love", and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. In 2008 "The Daily Telegraph" ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
Tomoka Shibasaki Tomoka Shibasaki (柴崎 友香 , Shibasaki Tomoka ) is a Japanese author, born on October 20, 1973, in Osaka. She graduated from Osaka Prefecture University and worked for four years before her debut in 2000, the novel "Kyō no dekigoto", which was filmed by Isao Yukisada in 2003 (English title: A day on the planet).