ShuntarÅ Tanikawa
Tanikawa Shuntaro (Japanese谷川 俊 太郎; * December 15, 1931 in Suginami, Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer, translator and poet.
Tanikawa has over 60 books of poetry published ( including many bestsellers ), television, radio and film scripts written, translated children's stories ( including the Peanuts by Charles Schulz ) and his works publicly recited in America and Europe.
He has many Japanese prizes and awards (eg, the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 1982 for A map of my days, Japanese: Hibi no chizu ). His works have been translated into 15 different languages, a translation into English (Floating the River in Melancholy ) received in 1989 even the American Book Award.
Works (selection)
- Two Billion Light- Years of Solitude, debut release in 1952
- Picnic on the globe ( poems, German translation ) ISBN 978-3-458-16556-9
- Light hidden in the darkness ( A Renshi chain poem, with other authors ) ISBN 3-932324-04-8
- Listening -みみ を すます, poem ( English and Japanese text, with images and audio CD ), 1982, ISBN 4-87799-027-5
- Tanikawa Shuntaro & Jürg Halter: Talking water, Secession, 2012
- Author
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature (Japanese)
- Poetry
- Japanese
- Born in 1931
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