Junzo Shono
Shono Junzo (Japanese庄 野 润 三, born February 9, 1921 in Sumiyoshi (now Osaka ), Osaka Prefecture; † 21 September 2009 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Shono began his literary activity after the Second World War with the writing of novels. In 1954 he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, awarded the most prestigious award for Japanese -language authors, for his book Poolside shōkei.
In the mid-1950s he achieved notoriety as one of the young aspiring writers besides Yasuoka Shotaro and Yoshiyuki Junnosuke. In 1957 he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation for a year in the United States and described his experiences there and his life at Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio) in the book The Gambia Taizaiki.
In the following years he won several other awards for his books as Seibutsu ( "Still Life " ), which won the Literature Prize of Shinchosha -Verlag. For his work Yube no Kumo ( " Evening Clouds" ) him in 1965 the Yomiuri Literature Prize. In 1971 he was honored with the prestigious Noma also Literature Prize for his book Eawase ( " image maps ").
In addition, he was also a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts since 1978.