Shōtarō Yasuoka
Also recorded as Shotaro Yasuoka · Shoutarou Yasuoka
Shōtarō Yasuoka
Japanese magazine "The Mainichi Graphic, 1 September 1954 issue" published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co.,Ltd. · Public domain
- Name
- Shōtarō Yasuoka
- Born
- 30 May 1920
- Birthplace
- Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan
- Died
- 26 January 2013
- Place of death
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Author, novelist
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Education
- Keio University
- Honours
- Akutagawa Prize · Art Encouragement Prizes · Noma Literary Prize · Mainichi Publication Culture Award · Yomiuri Prize · Japan Art Academy Prize
- Languages
- Japanese
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Shōtarō Yasuoka (1920–2013) was a novelist and writer, of Japanese and Japanese nationality. The novelist was born in Kōchi-shi and died in Tokyo.
Shōtarō Yasuoka was educated at Keio University. The novelist lived in Ota and Setagaya.
Languages used include Japanese. Honours include Akutagawa Prize, Art Encouragement Prizes and Japan Art Academy Prize, among others.
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• Name — Shōtarō Yasuoka • Born — 30 May 1920 • Birthplace — Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan • Died — 26 January 2013 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Author, novelist • Genre — Fiction Shōtarō Yasuoka was a Japanese writer.
Biography
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. In 1944, he was conscripted and served briefly overseas. 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." Yasuoka died in his home at age 92 in Tokyo, Japan.
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• 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
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Setagaya and Ota
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Kōchi-shi.
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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. 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). A leading figure in post-war Japanese literature, in 2001 Yasuoka was recognized by the Japanese government as a Person of Cultural Merit.
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- 1.Jewel, Mark. Yasuoka Shōtarō. The Japanese Literature. 2009-03-16.
- 2.Kyodo News. Writer Yasuoka dies. January 29, 2013.
- 3.Staff writer. Postwar literary giant Yasuoka dies at 92. The Asahi Shimbun. January 30, 2013.
- 4.The Glass Slipper and Other Stories. Dalkey Archive Press. 2008.
- 5."Cultural Highlights; From the Japanese Press (August 1–October 31, 2001)," Japan Foundation Newsletter, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, p. 7.
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