Draft:Hiroyuki Itsuki

Hiroyuki Itsuki (Japanese五 木 寛 之, Itsuki Hiroyuki, born September 30, 1932 in Fukuoka Prefecture, as Hiroyuki Matsunobu (松 延 寛 之) ) is a Japanese writer.

Itsuki grew up in Korea. After the Second World War, he came with his parents to Japan and studied from 1947 Russian literature at Waseda University. After a trip to Northern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1966 he made his debut as a writer with the novel Saraba Mosukuwa gurenta. For his second novel Aozameta uma o miyo he was awarded the Naoki Prize in the same year.

It was followed by other novels such as Seishun no mon, Unicon no tabi, Hitler no isan and Sofia no Aki. In 2010 he received for Shinran the Mainichi Cultural Prize.

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  • Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 447 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Japanese Literary History - Modern Japanese Authors - AI
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1932
  • Man
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