Question: Gut Symmetries is a 1997 novel by a writer born in which year ?

Context articles: Li Dawei
Olaf Saile
Jeanette Winterson
As She Climbed Across the Table
Chris Wooding
The Hundred Brothers
Hide and Seek (Patterson novel)
Les Voleurs de beauté
Gut Symmetries
Oscar Perdomo Gamboa

Li Dawei is a Chinese writer born in 1963r.
 He began writing poetry at age 17, and in 1985 graduated from Beijing Normal University with a degree in English.
 Two years later, he made his first visit to the United States, to attend Creative Writers Program sponsored by U.S. Information agency.
 Since 1987, he has been publishing theoretical works about art and literature and in 1997, he published his first novel, "Dream Collector", which is centred with a young musician and a talking cat that is later converted into a cartoon star.
 He won Select Short Stories Monthly prize in 1996 and, in 1997, was short-listed for Lu Xun Literary Prize, China's arguably highest award for literature.
 He was given October Prize in 2000.
 He currently resides in Los Angeles.
 He is also a columnist for Caijing Magazine
Olaf Saile (27 August 1901 - 29 June 1952) was a German writer born in Weitingen, Württemberg.
 Saile's principal claim to fame is the historical novel "Kepler, Roman einer Zeitwende" first published in German in Stuttgart in 1938 and many times reprinted.
 It is an imagined biography of the life and times of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.
 The novel was translated into English by James A Galston and published in New York City in 1940 by Oskar Piest, under the title "Troubadour of the Stars".
 The novel has occasionally been interpreted as a coded protest  against the Nazi régime which Saile had experienced at first hand.
 Following the banning of the Social Democratic Party by the Nazis, in June 1933 as editor of the newspaper "Rathenower Zeitung", during the subsequent wave of arrests Olaf Saile was briefly detained in the Oranienburg Concentration Camp, during which time he was maltreated.
 His release was apparently secured after a friend and fellow-journalist Käthe Lambert used her journalistic credentials to enter the camp and then to write a report detailing conditions there.
 They subsequently married.
 Saile died at the age of 50 and was buried in the Church of St. Bernhardt in Esslingen am Neckar.
 Käthe Saile is buried alongside her husband.
Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values.
 Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.
 Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
 She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues.
As She Climbed Across the Table is a 1997 novel by the American writer Jonathan Lethem.
 This satirical science fiction story is set on the fictional campus of Beauchamp University in Northern California.
 Particle physicist Alice Coombs rooms with narrator Philip Engstrand, an anthropologist researching conflicts between and within disciplines.
 Their relationship drives the romantic aspect of this story.
 The novel deals thematically with many of the philosophical issues pertaining to modern quantum physics, as well as human interaction with artificial intelligence.
Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London.
 His first book, "Crashing", which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one.
 Since then he has written many more, including "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray", which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and "Poison", which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year.
 He is also the author of three different, completed series; "Broken Sky", an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, "Braided Path", a fantasy trilogy for adults, and "Malice", a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, "Tales of the Ketty Jay", a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.
The Hundred Brothers is a 1997 novel by American author Donald Antrim.
 The substance of the novel consists of the nocturnal reunion of one hundred brothers in the library of their ancestral home, as they attempt to locate and inter the ashes of their deceased father, an insane monarch, drink heavily, and manifest a variety of mildly homicidal sibling rivalries.
 The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998.
 In his introduction to the novel, Jonathan Franzen wrote, ""The Hundred Brothers" is possibly the strangest novel ever published by an American.
 Its author, Donald Antrim, is arguably more unlike any other living writer than any other living writer."
Hide and Seek is a 1997 novel written by thriller novel writer James Patterson.
Les Voleurs de beauté ("the beauty thieves") is a 1997 novel by the French writer Pascal Bruckner.
 The narrative is set in Paris during summer and follows several people who battle with desires and anxieties.
 The novel received the Prix Renaudot.
Gut Symmetries is a 1997 novel by the British literary writer Jeanette Winterson, exploring themes of human relationships and physics.
Oscar Perdomo Gamboa is a writer born in the city of Ibagué, Colombia.
 Studied Journalism and a magister in Colombian and Latin American literature.
 Won the Jorge Isaacs award with the novel Hacia la Auora  in 1998, a story about a student who can control other people's dreams.
 The book was published in 1999 and 2005.
 He's worked as teacher in several colleges of the city of Cali.
 In 2008, he published "Ella, mi Sueño y el Mar" (She, my dream and the sea), collection of romantic short stories dedicated to an imaginary muse.
 His third book is "De cómo perdió sus vidas el gato" (How did the cat lose his lives) is a novel for children about a cat who must visit the nine muses in order to reach wisdom.
 In 2011 with the poet Hernando Urriago Benítez published "Escrito en la grama" (written in the grass) an anthology of Colombian short stories about soccer.
 His controversial novel, "MD™", is a parody about a surreal factory where everything is created.
 In 2014 he wrote "Fútbol de carnaval" (Carnival soccer), a book of short stories about Brazilian soccer players.
 In 2015 he published "Allá en la Guajira Arriba" a historic novel about the colombian independence hero José Prudencio Padilla.
 He also has written diverse articles, some of them humorous, for local newspapers, magazines and web pages, including "La Palabra", cultural publication of Universidad del Valle.
 Currently he teaches languages and literature in Cali, Colombia, with fellow writers like Carlos Patiño Millán and Fabio Martínez.