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Some authors take on pen names to conceal their identity: for example the Brontes, who felt they would either not be published at all, or not taken seriously as women authors. Others do so to segregate different types of work: Lewis Carroll because as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson he wrote mathematics papers; Agatha Christie wrote romantic novels as Mary Westmacott. Many writers, particularly in genre fiction, are so prolific that they are forced to take pen names in order to sell their books to different publishers: this is the case, for instance, with John Dickson Carr, who, in the 1930s, was publishing two detective stories a year under his own name and another two, through another publisher, under the pen name Carter Dickson. Pseudonyms are not always secret: Stendhal's real name was known: at least one critic disparaged his pen name as an affectation.
A shayar (a poet who writes shers in Urdu or Persian) almost always has a takhallus, a pen name, traditionally placed at the end of the name when referring to the poet by his full name. Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (his official name and title) was known as Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, or just Mirza Ghalib.
Japanese poets who write haikuThis is the article on the ancient Japanese form of poetry. For the BeOS open-source recreation project, see Haiku (operating system). For the town in Hawaii, see Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii. Haiku is one of the most important forms of traditional Japanese poet often use a haiga or penname. The famous haiku poet Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho ( Matsuo Basho 1644 November 28, 1694), was the pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa the Japanese poet usually referred to simply as "Basho" without the surname. He is widely thought of as one of the greatest writers of the Edo period, and is best re had used fifteen different haiga before he became fond of a banana plant (basho) that had been given to him by a disciple and started using it has his penname at the age of 38.
Similiar to a pen name, JapaneseThe term Japanese can have several meanings: Japan Mainland Japan Japanese people people of Japanese ancestry living in Japan Ethnic Japanese people of Japanese ancestry living outside Japan Japanese-American an article primarily about the immigration and artists usually have a go or art-nameAn art-name (in Japanese, go is a pseudonym, or penname, used by an Japanese artist, which they sometimes change. In some cases, artists adopted different go at different stages of their career, usually to mark significant changes in their life. One of th, which might change a number of times during their career. Also, all SumoSumo ( Sumo , or sumo wrestling is today a competition contact sport wherein two wrestlers or rikishi face off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin and is surrounded with many rituals. The Japanese consider sumo a gendai budo: a modern Japa wrestlers take shikona (wrestling names), and people in other professions and trades may also adopt new names (see Japanese name#Professional namesA modern Japanese name consists of a family name, or surname, followed by a given name and is used by Japanese people to refer to themselves and by no other ethnics. There are no middle names. Common surnames in Japan include Sato , Kato , Suzuki and Taka).