Yasutaka Tsutsui
Yasutaka Tsutsui (Japanese筒 井 康隆, Tsutsui Yasutaka, * September 24, 1934 in Osaka ) is a Japanese writer. Most of his more than thirty novels and numerous short stories belong to science fiction literature.
Life
He graduated from 1953 to 1957 the Dōshisha University. In 1960 he founded with his three brothers, the science- fiction magazine zero. The Detective Magazine Hoseki he shortly afterwards published his first short story O Tasuke. This earned him the recognition of the well-known writer Rampo Edogawa. From 1962 he focused again on science fiction.
In the 1970s, he changed his style and experimented around with black humor and slapstick, which earned him a wide readership. He was several times nominated for the Naoki Prize and considered in the course of his career with numerous awards: for example, three times with the Seiun Prize, 1987 with the Tanizaki - Jun'ichirô Award for Yumenokizaka Bungiten, 1989 by Yasunari Kawabata Literature Prize for Yoppatani e no coca and 1999 with the Yomiuri literary Prize for Watashi no Grampa. In 1997 he was et des Lettres awarded the Ordre des Arts as Chevalier.
Because Tsutsui addresses taboo subjects in his works and social criticism puts forward, he is often criticized, which from 1993 to 1996 in a publication strike culminated his hand.
The author has also worked as an actor. As such, he had, for example, a supporting role in the horror film Stacy - Attack of the Zombie Schoolgirl ( 2001).
Several of his works were filmed, the best known of which are two anime. His novel Paprika was implemented in 2006 by Satoshi Kon as an eponymous animated movie. In the same year the animated film adaptation was released The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which is based on his novel Toki o Kakeru Shōjo. This has already been implemented twice as real film. 2010 appeared another live-action adaptation of the substance by Masaaki Taniguchi, but also based loosely on the literary model.
Together with Shin'ichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is considered one of the " Big Three " of Japanese science-fiction literature. Tsutsui work has been translated into French, English and German. In 2010 he received the Kikuchi Kan Prize for his literary work and work.