ShÅhei ÅŒoka
Ooka Shohei (Japanese大 冈 升平; born March 6, 1909 in Ushigome, Tokyo city (today: Shinjuku, Tokyo ); † December 25, 1988 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Ooka learned the French language in the Seijo High School and had early contact with the Japanese literary scene, so to the critics Hideo Kobayashi and Kawakami Tetsutaro and the poet Nakahara Chuya.
After studying literature at the Imperial University of Kyoto, he spent a year as an employee of the newspaper Kokumin Shimbun. In 1938 he was a translator for the French -Japanese company in Kobe. In addition, he devoted himself to the translation of Stendhal's works into Japanese.
In 1944 he was drafted into the Imperial Army and sent to Mindoro (Philippines) to the front. There he came in early 1945 in American captivity. At the suggestion of Kobayashi Hideo, he recorded his experiences in a prisoner of war in the novel Furyoki (俘虏 记), for which he was awarded the Yokomitsu - Riichi price.
Ooka published other novels, including Musashino Fujin (武 蔵 野 夫人) Hanakage (花影) and best known: Nobi (野火), as well as biographies of the writer Nakahara Chuya and Tominaga taro and a representation of the Battle of Leyte ( 1967-69 ) for which he 1971 the Mainichi Art prize.
Nobi was in German as a fire in the grasslands ( Goverts, Stuttgart 1959, and Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-458-16603-3 ) published.
Ooka 1975 was honored for his contribution to the post-war literature and for the completion of the complete edition of his works with the Asahi Prize.