|
Tanizaki Prize
The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 ''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō''), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher. It is awarded annually to a full-length representative work of fiction or drama of the highest literary merit by a professional writer. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of 1 million yen. Winners Award sponsor Chuokoron-Shinsha maintains an official list of current and past winning works. *1965 Kojima Nobuo for ''Embracing Family'' (''Hōyō kazoku'', 抱擁家族) *1966 Endō Shūsaku for ''Silence'' (''Chinmoku'', 沈黙) *1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for '' The Silent Cry'' (''Manen gannen no futtoboru'', 万延元年のフットボール) *1967 Abe Kobo for ''Friends'' (''Tomodachi'', 友達) *1968 (no prize awarded) *1969 Enchi Fumiko for ''Shu wo ub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuokoron-Shinsha
is a Japanese publisher. It was established in 1886, under the name . In 1999, it was acquired by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, and its name was subsequently changed to Chūōkōron-shinsha. Profile The company publishes a wide variety of material, including numerous novels, books, manga and several magazines, including the famous literary magazine and . It also organizes a variety of prestigious literary awards and prizes across Japan, such as the renowned Chūōkōron Prize. Among the numerous novels published by the company include Hiroshi Mori's ''The Sky Crawler'' series, which was adapted into a 2008 anime film from director Mamoru Oshii. The company has also published numerous manga, including Keiji Nakazawa's famed ''Barefoot Gen'' series, Monkey Punch's famed ''Lupin III'' series, Keiko Takemiya's ''Hensōkyoku'', Riyoko Ikeda's noted works ''The Rose of Versailles'', ''Jotei Ekaterina'' and ''Ten no Hate Made: Poland Hishi'', Kaoru Kurimoto and Yumiko Igarashi's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujieda Shizuo
was a Japanese writer. Shizuo Fujieda's first profession was of an ophthalmologist. For many years before becoming a full-time author he wrote only when he was free from his work as an ophthalmologist. Fujieda's literary career began rather late. He was already 39 when his first short story was published in a literary magazine. Fujieda knew Shūgo Honda and Ken Hirano, two literary critics, from his school days. It was that duo who gave him his pen name. Naoya Shiga, one of the best known writers of the time, was an inspiration to Fujieda. When Fujieda was 20 he had met the famous writer. After several years of stagnation as a writer, Fujieda finally established himself as a writer of the autobiographical “I-novel.” He rose steadily to prominence in this genre. The effort to explore the self is evident in Fujieda's works. This deep exploratory prose is the hallmark of Fujieda's. There are also significant portions in his stories that bear a strong resemblance to reality, to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hino Keizo
was a Japanese author. He won the 1974 Akutagawa Prize for ''Ano yūhi'' (''The Evening Sun'') and the 22nd Tanizaki Prize for . Born in Tokyo, he accompanied his parents to Korea, when the country was still under Japanese colonial rule. After the war, he returned to Japan, graduating from the University of Tokyo and joining the staff of the Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper in 1952. He served as a foreign correspondent in South Korea and Vietnam before becoming a novelist. Though he is often described as an environmentalist author, the focus of much of his fiction is the urban physical environment. Hino's works are striking for being simultaneously autobiographical and surrealistic. His novel ''Yume no Shima'' has been translated into English by Charles de Wolf as ''Isle of Dreams'', and into German by Jaqueline Berndt and Hiroshi Yamane as ''Trauminsel''; a short story, Bokushikan, has been translated into English by Charles de Wolf as The Rectory; another short st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
is a 1985 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It was awarded the Tanizaki Prize in 1985. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two narratives—"Hard-Boiled Wonderland" (the cyberpunk, science fiction part) and "The End of the World" (the surreal, virtual fantasy part). Plot summary The story is split between parallel narratives. The odd-numbered chapters take place in "Hard-Boiled Wonderland", although that phrase is not used anywhere in the text, only in page headers. The narrator is a , a human data processor and encryption system who has been trained to use his subconscious as an encryption key. The Calcutecs work for the quasi-governmental System, as opposed to the criminal who work for the Factory and who are generally fallen Calcutecs. The relationship between the two groups is simple: the System protects data while the Semiotecs steal it, although it is suggested that one man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruki Murakami
is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzou Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize. Growing up in Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel ''Hear the Wind Sing'' (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels '' Norwegian Wood'' (1987), ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (1994–95), ''Kafka on the Shore'' (2002), and '' 1Q84'' (2009–10), with ''1Q84'' ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takai Yuichi
was a Japanese author. Takai won the 1965 Akutagawa Prize for ''Kita no kawa'' (Northern Stream), the 1984 Tanizaki Prize for ''Kono kuni no sora'' (この国の空, This Country's Sky), and the 1989 Yomiuri Prize The is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone. Award categories For the first two years, a ... for ''Yoru no ari'' (夜 の 蟻). Selected works * ''Shōnentachi no senjo'', 1968. * ''Yoake no tochi'', 1968. * ''Tanima no michi'', 1969. * ''Yuki no hate no fūsō'', 1970. * ''Tōi hi no umi'', 1972. * ''Mushitachi no sumika'' (蟲たち の 棲家), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1973. * ''Kuregata no mori ni te'', 1976. * ''Yume no ishibumi'', 1976. * ''Kansatsusha no chikara'', 1977. * ''Shinjitsu no gakko'', 1980. * ''Kono kuni no sora'' (この 国 の 空), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1983. * ''Bara no nedoko'' (薔 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuroi Senji
Kuroi Senji (黒井 千次) is a pen name of Osabe Shunjirō (長部 瞬二郎, born May 28, 1932), Japanese author of fiction and essays. Kuroi is a member of the "Introspective Generation" of Japanese writers, whose work depicts the thoughts of ordinary Japanese. He lives in Tokyo's western suburbs, along the Chūō Main Line, in a neighborhood similar to that depicted in his novel of linked stories, ''Gunsei'' (Life in the Cul-de-Sac, 群棲), for which he won the 1984 Tanizaki Prize. As of 2006 he is president of the Japan Writer's Association (Nihon Bungeika Kyokai). Selected works * ''Jikan'' (Time, 時間), 1969. * ''Gunsei'' (Life in the Cul-de-Sac, 群棲), 1984. Translated to English as ''Life in the Cul-de-Sac'', trans. Philip Gabriel James Philip Gabriel (born 1953) is an American translator and Japanologist. He is a full professor and former department chair of the University of Arizona's Department of East Asian Studies and is one of the major translators i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furui Yoshikichi
was a Japanese author and translator. He has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Yomiuri Prize, among other literary awards. Biography Furui was born in Tokyo, Japan. He was educated at the University of Tokyo, where he majored in German literature, receiving a BA in 1960. His undergraduate thesis was on Franz Kafka. He remained at Tokyo University for graduate work for another two years, earning an MA in German literature in 1962. After graduating, he accepted a position at Kanazawa University where he taught German language and literature for three years. He subsequently moved to Rikkyo University in Tokyo where he remained as an assistant professor of German literature until the watershed year of 1970. The early 1970s was a period of rapid economic growth and cultural efflorescence. In the literary sphere, a new group of authors was emerging. These authors differed notably from their predecessors because of their move away from the overt social and political c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oba Minako
was a Japanese author and social critic. She was awarded the 1968 Akutagawa Prize for ''Sanbiki no kani'' (Three Crabs), and the 1982 Tanizaki Prize for ''Katachi mo naku'' (寂兮寥兮). Ōba suffered a stroke in 1996 and died on May 24, 2007. Selected works * ''Sanbiki no kani'' (Three Crabs), 1968. * ''Funakuimushi'' (ふなくい虫), Tokyo : Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ..., 1970. * ''Yūreitachi no fukkatsusai'', 1970 * ''Sabita kotoba'', 1971. * ''Shishu sabita kotoba'' (A Poetry Collection of Tarnished Words), 1971. * ''Tsuga no yume'', 1971. * ''Uo no namida'', 1971. * ''Kokyū o hiku tori'', 1972. * ''Yasō no yume'', 1973. * ''Aoi kitsune'', Tokyo : Kodansha, 1975. * ''Garakuta hakubutsukan'', 1975. * '' Yamauba no Bisho (The Smile of the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goto Akio
, also known as Akio Gotō, was a Japanese author. Biography Gotō was born in Yongheung County, Chōsen (now Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea). He fled with his family to Kyūshū, Japan while in junior high school. He studied Russian literature at Waseda University, with particular interest in Nikolai Gogol. He then worked at an advertising agency and a publishing house, before becoming a professional novelist in 1968. Major prizes * 1977 Hirabayashi Taiko Award for ''Yume katari'' (Dreams Speak) * 1981 Tanizaki Prize for ''Yoshino-dayu'' (吉野大夫, The Courtesan Yoshino) English translations * ''Shot By Both Sides'' (''Hasamiuchi'', 1973), trans. Tom Gill, Japanese Literature Publishing Project, 2005 list. Published in the United States by Counterpoint, fall 2008. Selected works * ''Shiteki seikatsu'', 1969. * ''Waraijigoku'', 1969. * ''Nani?'', 1970. * ''Kakarenai hōkoku'', 1971. * ''Kankei'', 1971. * ''En to daen no sekai'', 1972. * ''Gotō Meisei sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukazawa Shichiro
Fukazawa (written: 深澤) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Masahiro Fukazawa, Japanese sportsperson *Shichirō Fukazawa was a Japanese author and guitarist whose 1960 short story ''Fūryū mutan'' ("Tale of an Elegant Dream") caused a nationwide uproar and led to an attempt by an ultranationalist to assassinate the president of the magazine that published it. B ..., Japanese writer * Masao Fukazawa, Japanese actor *, Japanese speed skater {{Surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kono Taeko
Kono may refer to: Geography *Kono District, a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone **Kono people, an ethnic group in Sierra Leone * Kono, Nigeria, a village in Rivers State, Nigeria *Kōno, Fukui, a village in Fukui, Japan * Kono people Nigeria, an ethnic group in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna state Nigeria Languages *Kono language (Sierra Leone), a Mande language of Sierra Leone *Kono language (Guinea), a Mande language of Guinea *Kono language (Nigeria), a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria People with the surname *Kōno, a Japanese family name (including a list of people with the name) * Hiromichi Kono (1905-1963), Japanese entomologist and anthropologist *, Japanese voice actress Other *Gonu, Korean traditional board games *Jonas Saeed, a Swedish musician who goes by the stage name KONO See also *KONO (other) *Konno, a surname *Kouno (other) Kouno may refer to: *Battle of Kouno (1899) battle in Africa of Muslims versus French troops *Kouno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
