JirÅ Asada
Jiro Asada (Japanese浅田 次郎, Asada Jiro, orig. Kojiro Iwato (岩 戸 康 次郎), born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is a Japanese writer.
Impressed by the spectacular suicide of the writer Yukio Mishima 1970, he became Asada after graduating from high school the Self-Defense Forces in. Later he worked in the economy and in addition has published articles in various literary journals. In 1991 he debuted with the novel Torarete Tamaruka! . For the novel Metoro ni notte (1993 ) he received the 1995 Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for young authors.
In 1997 the novel Poppaya that the Naoki Prize brought Asada. For his work he received the Mibu Gishi 2000 the Renzaburo Shibata Prize. Double the novel Ohara was meshimase excellent: the Chūōkōron Prize for Literature (2006 ) and the Shiba Ryotaro - Prize. 2010 finally Asada received for the novel Owarazaru natsu the Mainichi Cultural Prize for Art and Literature. Several of his novels were also made into a film.
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- Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - E-Learning Toolkit: Jiro Asada
- La Littérature Japonaise - Asada Jiro
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- Author
- Novel, epic
- Literature (Japanese)
- Japanese
- Born in 1951
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