How to manage a multi-author book using dataview

[cosmos]

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What I’m trying to do

I am currently using obsidian’s dataview to manage my books.
In normal use, I set up an “author” field, registered the author’s name there, and wrote the dataview as follows.

dataview
	table WITHOUT ID
	title as "title", year as "year", author as "author"
	from #Book and #written 
	where author = [[Barack Obama]]
	sort Year asc

This method is fine for a single author, but when there are multiple authors, there was a problem that the information of multiple authors could not be registered.
Therefore, I would like to set “author” to “list” and display the “author” field as it is in the output list.
I am trying to do this, but I am not sure how to do it.
Does anyone know how to do this?

I saw this (Dataview query author's work where there are multiple authors in frontmatter of a work cosmos), but I would like to put the name on the table as a link if possible.

[holroy]

Given either of the following markup used for authors:

author: "[[Barack Obama]]"
... or ...
author:
- "[[Barack Obama]]"
- "[[Donald Trump]]"

You should be able to query either of them using a trick like:

WHERE contains(flat(list(author)), [[Barack Obama]])

This trickery using flat(list(...)) ensures that whatever notation is used for the field, we can use the list comparison functions to check against it.

[cosmos]

The solution worked out as ideal! Thank you very much!