Keizo Hino

Keizo Hino (Japanese日 野 启 三, Hino Keizo; born June 14, 1929 in Tokyo, † 14 October 2002) was a Japanese writer. Hino Keizōs work can be thematically the " environmental literature " (环境 文学, Kankyo Bungaku ) and the " fantastic literature " (幻想 文学, Genso Bungaku ) assign.

Life

Hino lived from the age of six until his sixteenth year with his family in Korea. After returning to Japan, he studied at the University of Tokyo. From 1952 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, for which he, inter alia, reported on the Vietnam War from Saigon. From the 1970s he was active as a successful novelist. In 1975, he was with those evening sun (あの 夕日, Ano Yuhi ) made ​​its debut. Among the numerous literary awards he received include the Hirabayashi, Taiko Literature Prize ( for Shigan no ie, 1974), the Akutagawa Prize ( for Ano Yuhi, 1974), the Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize ( for Hoyo, 1982) the Tanizaki - Jun'ichirô prize ( for Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni, 1986), the Itō -Sei prize for Literature ( for Dangai no toshi, 1992), the Noma literary Prize ( for Taifu no me, 1993) and the Yomiuri Literature Award ( for Hikari, 1995). His novel Yume no Shima appeared in German translation under the title dream island.

Works (selection)

Swell

• La Littérature Japonaise - Hino Keizo
• Keizo Hino ( translator's: Charles De Wolf): Isle of Dreams, reprint Dalkey Archive Press, 2010, ISBN 9781564786036, p 159