Ango Sakaguchi
Ango Sakaguchi (Japanese坂 口 安 吾; actually :坂 口 炳 五Sakaguchi Heigo; born October 20, 1906 in Niitsu Niigata Prefecture, † February 17, 1955 in Kiryu ) was a Japanese narrator and essayist.
Life
Ango was born the eleventh of twelve children of a wealthy landowning family. His father was a local politician and president of the Niigata Shimbun. Ango Studied 1926-1930 Indian at the Toyo University philosophy. From 1931 on, he was out with friends the literary magazine in which he published his first small stories. In 1931 he debuted with the stories " The village Kurotani " ( Kurotani mura ) and " Dr. Wind " ( Kaze hakase ). Although he received considerable recognition for his next novel " Story of a snow storm " ( Fubuki monogatari ), him ( Gaito to aozora ) was not until after the Second World War with the works " The Madman " ( Hakuchi ), " The jacket and the blue sky " and the grotesque story "In the standing in full bloom cherry forest " ( Sakura no mori no Mankai no shita ) the breakthrough. Thematically Angos work of the fear and the lostness of modern man is characterized.
At 27, he learned Yada Tsuneko, with whom he led a vagabond and bohemian life. In 1947 he married the writer Kaji Michiyo, with whom he had a daughter. He died in 1955 at the age of 48 at his home on a brain aneurysm. Since 2006, the city of Niigata awards in his memory the Ango - Price (安 吾 赏, Angoshō ).