Shōtarō Yasuoka
| Shōtarō Yasuoka | |
|---|---|
| File:Shōtarō Yasuoka.jpg | |
| Born | May 30, 1920 Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Author, novelist |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Genre | Fiction |
Shōtarō Yasuoka (安岡 章太郎 Yasuoka Shōtarō?, May 30, 1920 – January 26, 2013) was a Japanese writer.[1][2][3]
Biography
Yasuoka was born in pre-war Japan in Kōchi, Kōchi, but as the son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, he spent most of his youth moving from one military post to another.[4] In 1944, he was conscripted and served briefly overseas.[1] After the war, he became ill with spinal caries, and it was "while he was bedridden with this disease that he began his writing career."[4] Yasuoka died in his home at age 92 in Tokyo, Japan.[3]
Awards
As an influential Japanese writer, Yasuoka's work has won him various prizes and awards. Notably, he received the Akutagawa Prize for Inki na tanoshimi (A Melancholy Pleasure, 1953) and Warui nakama (Bad Company, 1953); Kaihen no kōkei (A View by the Sea, 1959) won him the Noma Literary Prize; and his Maku ga orite kara (After the Curtain Fell, 1967) won the Mainichi Cultural Prize.[1] He also received the Yomiuri Literary Prize for Hate mo nai dōchūki (The Never-ending Traveler's Journal, 1996); and the Osaragi Jirō Prize for Kagamigawa (The Kagami River, 2000).[1]
A leading figure in post-war Japanese literature, in 2001 Yasuoka was recognized by the Japanese government as a Person of Cultural Merit.[5]
Translations
| Japanese title | English title | Year | English translation, year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 愛玩 "Aigan" |
"Prized Possessions" (short story) | 1952 | Edwin McClellan, 1977 |
| 海辺の光景 "Kaihen no kōkei" |
A View by the Sea | 1959 | Kären Wigen, 1984 |
References
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- ↑ "Cultural Highlights; From the Japanese Press (August 1–October 31, 2001)," Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Japan Foundation Newsletter, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, p. 7.
External links
- Shotaro Yasuoka at J'Lit Books from Japan Script error: No such module "In lang".
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- 1920 births
- 2013 deaths
- 20th-century Japanese novelists
- 21st-century Japanese novelists
- Japanese male short story writers
- People from Kōchi, Kōchi
- Akutagawa Prize winners
- Yomiuri Prize winners
- 20th-century Japanese short story writers
- 21st-century Japanese short story writers
- 20th-century Japanese male writers
- 21st-century male writers
- Japanese military personnel of World War II
- Writers from Kōchi Prefecture
