Yan Lianke 阎连科 Chinese poet, novelist (born August 24, 1958) – The Day the Sun Died (2018)
Ali Smith (born August 24 1962) Scottish fiction and nonfiction author – Winter (2017)
Read an interview of Ali Smith here
Ali Smith speaks at the Edinburgh World Writer's Conference
here
Jorge Luis Borges (born August 24, 1899) Argentinian poet, essayist, story writer – Labyrinths
Read an interview with Borges here
Listen to a set of lectures that Borge gave about poetry and writing
here
Stephen Fry (born August 24, 1957) U.K. comedian, novelist, scholar – The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (2005)
Read Fry's assessment of modern poetry here
[Fry] believes that a lot of 'modern poetry can be listless and, perhaps more unforgivably than anything, just simply lazy. It's not that it's naive or formless, just: "Go back and work harder at it before you show it to the public, it's not ready." It's not worth time. Poems are not like novels or speeches or emails or texts.
Stephen Fry talks about poetic form
here