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Be Itō (Japanese伊藤 整, actually: Hitoshi Ito, born January 16, 1905 in Otaru, † November 15, 1969 ) was a Japanese writer, translator and literary critic.
Itō attended the Commercial School of Otaru and began studying at the Graduate School of Tokyo ( Hitotsubashi University today ), but he did not graduate. In 1926 he published a book of poems Yukiakari no michi. In the 1930s he participated in the first translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses into Japanese. But he was only known as a translator by his transfer of DH Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley 's Lover (1950).
In the 1950s and 1960s, Itō made primarily known as a literary critic. He also wrote several highly successful novels, and was awarded the Japan Academy of Arts Nihon geijutsuin - shō. A twenty-four -volume edition of his works ( Itō Be Zenshu ) was published 1972-74. Since 1990, his birthplace Otaru awards in his memory the Itō -Sei Prize for Literature.
Swell
- John Scott Miller: "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater", Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107, page 42
- Michael Chan: "The Joyce Agenda: Itō Be and the Stream of Consciousness " (PDF file, 182 kB)
- Author
- Translation (literary )
- Literary critic
- Literature (Japanese)
- Japanese
- Born 1905
- Died in 1969
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