Junji Kinoshita

Junji Kinoshita (Japanese木 下 顺 二, born August 2, 1914 in Tokyo, † 30 October 2006) was a Japanese dramatist and translator.

Kinoshita studied English literature with the focus of the Elizabethan age at the University of Tokyo. His first drama ( furo ), he wrote after the completion of the study in 1936, it was not published until eleven years later. After the war he taught at Meiji University.

His most successful drama was Yuzuru (夕 鹤). It was performed in 1949 by the theater group he founded in 1947 Budoo no Kai, followed by his debut release furo (风浪, 1953). In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the most important representatives of modern drama in Japan and was regarded as a Japanese Henry Miller. In 1978 he was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. He put also provide a translation of the dramatic oeuvre of William Shakespeare and the author of several literary theory writings. For Dorama no sekai ( The world of the drama ), he received the 1959 Mainichi Cultural Prize and his work Shigosen no matsuri (子午線 の 祀り) in 1979 awarded the Mainichi Art Award. In 1966 he published his only novel Mugen Kido ( road without end ).

Works

  • Furo, 1934
  • Yuzuru, 1949
  • Tsuru Nyobo, 1943
  • Yamanami, 1949
  • Kurai Hibana, 1950
  • Kaeru Shoten, 1951
  • Onnyoro seisuiki, 1957
  • Okinawa, 1961
  • Otto to yobareru Nihonjin, 1962
  • Fuju no jidai, 1964 ( about Richard Sorge )
  • Shimpan, 1970

Swell

  • Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 524 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Gabrielle H. Cody: "The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama ," Volume 1, Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231140324, pp. 767-68
  • John Scott Miller: "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater", Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107, page 53
  • J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: " The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present", Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231138048, p 475
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica - Kinoshita Junji
  • The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition ( 1970-1979 ) - Kinoshita, Junji
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 2006
  • Man
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