Ken'ichi Yoshida (literary scholar)

Ken'ichi Yoshida (Japanese吉田 健 一, born April 1, 1912 in Tokyo Prefecture; † 3 August 1977) was a Japanese writer and Anglist.

Life

The son of Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru diplomats and later spent his childhood in China, France and Britain. After visiting the Gyosei - secondary school, he went to Cambridge University to study English literature, but returned after only one year to Japan.

Yoshida debuted in 1935 with the translation of Edgar Allan Poe's autobiographical memorandum. In 1939 he founded with Mitsuo Nakamura and Yamamoto Kenkichi the literary magazine Hihyō (批评), in which he published reviews of modern English and French authors. From the late 1940s he published writings on English literature, particularly Shakespeare.

In addition, Yoshida also wrote his own literary works, stories Shuen (酒宴) and Zanko (残 光) and the novel Gareki no Kuni (瓦礫 の 中).

For his criticism of Shakespeare and Gareki no Naka he received in 1956 and 1970 the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.

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  • Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literary criticism
  • Translator
  • Anglist
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1912
  • Died in 1977
  • Man
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