Fujio Noguchi

Fujio Noguchi ( Nogutschi Fudschio, Japanese野 口 冨 士 男, civil Hirai Fujio; born July 4, 1911 in Tōkyō- Kojimachi; † 22 November 1993) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Fujio Noguchi was born on July 4, 1911 in Kojimachi, now a part of the Tokyo metropolitan district of Chiyoda, . His parents divorced in 1913. He spent his school days at the Keio Gijuku Elementary School, where taro Okamoto was one of his classmates, and then at the Keio middle school. He also attended the preparatory stage of the Literary Faculty of Keio University, but had to repeat a year and went in 1930 from school. The study of literature at Bunka Gakuin, he decided in 1933 ( lit. " cultural institution ").

After graduation, he worked as editor of the magazine Kodo in the publishing department of the trading company Kinokuniya. As the publishing arm went bankrupt in 1935, he was at the Miyako Shimbun ( lit. " ( Tokyo ) Capital newspaper" ) worked and wrote in the following period for magazines that were released by various literary associations, including the Arakure and the Gendai - Bungaku magazine. In the period from 1936 to 1937, he found employment with the Kawade -Verlag ( Kawade Shobo ). In 1937 he had himself entered in the family register of his mother and officially adopted the name Hirai.

During the Second World War, he was called up for service in the naval forces, but eventually dismissed for malnutrition. Around the year 1950 he devoted himself around under the impression of having stumbled in his own literary work in a dead end, the life and work of Tokuda Shūseis. In almost ten years of work, he managed to explain the latter's lifetime, after which he, although practically einkommenslos to went to the writing of a biography. He wrote: I have a family of three, but four live at my house: In addition to my wife and a son, there is a roommate named Tokuda Shusei. During this time he built a part of his house in Tōkyō- Totsuka (now part of the Tokyo metropolitan district Shinjuku ) to a dwelling place for students to.

In 1965 he received for his Tokuda Shusei biography the Mainichi Art Award (sponsored by the Mainichi Shimbun). During this time he returned to the path of their own literary creation and has received numerous awards (see below).

In 1987 he became a member of the Japan Academy of Arts. Since 1984, he was (Nihon - Bungeika - Kyōkai ) served as CEO of Japanese Writers' Association.

Fujio Noguchi died in 1993 from respiratory failure.

Prizes and awards

  • Author
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Japanese
  • Pseudonym
  • Born in 1911
  • Died in 1993
  • Man
November 22 Chiyoda, Tokyo Shinjuku, Tokyo Yomiuri Prize Kikuchi Kan Prize
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