Kuroi Senji

Senji Kuroi (Japanese黒 井 千 次, Senji Kuroi, orig. Osabe Shunjirō (长 部 舜二郎); born May 28, 1932) is a Japanese writer.

Kuroi studied economics at the University of Tokyo. He first worked as a salaryman and next as an author. He was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 1968. In the following year the novel was published Jinkan. For Gunsei he received the 1984 Tanizaki Prize - Jun'ichirô. With the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 1994, he was awarded Koru for skating, with the Noma Prize for Literature in 2006 for Ichijitsu yume no satsu. He is president of the Japanese Union of Writers and member of the selection committee for the Akutagawa Prize.

Source

  • John Scott Miller: "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater", Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107, page 60
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1932
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