Hiroshi Noma

Noma Hiroshi (Japanese野 间 宏, born February 23, 1915 in Kobe, † January 2, 1991 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer.

The son of a Buddhist priest more interested in the Marxist ideology. He was enthusiastic about the French symbolist poetry, read the works of James Joyce, André Gide and Marcel Proust and was a student of the poet Takeuchi Katsutaro before studying at the University of Kyoto in 1935.

In 1941 he was drafted into the army and took part in battles in China and the Philippines. After he was dismissed because of malaria infection from the army, he entered in 1944, the Communist Party, from which he was excluded, however later.

In 1946 he debuted with the novel Kurai e His most important work was the anti-war novel Shinku chitai (1952 ), for which he was awarded the Mainichi Cultural Prize. He also received the 1971 Tanizaki - Jun'ichirô Prize for the novel His no wa and 1988, the Asahi Prize.

Swell

• John Scott Miller: "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater", Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7, p 90
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Noma Hiroshi

• Author
• Novel, epic
• Literature (Japanese)
• Japanese
• Born in 1915
• Died in 1991
• Man