Yutaka Haniya

Haniya Yutaka (Japanese埴 谷 雄 高; * January 1, 1910 Taiwan, † February 19, 1997 ) was a Japanese writer.

Born as a descendant of a samurai family Haniya was sickly from childhood. At first he was inclined to anarchism, but then came 1927, the Japanese Communist Party in whose commissioner for agriculture, he was. After a prison sentence 1932-33 he retired from politics and devoted himself to literature.

After the Second World War, he founded the literary magazine Kindai Bungaku, in which he published among others works by Abe Kobo and his first novel Shirei ( ghosts ). In the 1950s and 1960s, he had great influence on young intellectuals in Japan as a representative of existentialism. 1960 appeared Genshi no naka no seiji (Politics of Illusion ). In 1971 he received the Erzählungssammllung Yami no naka no kuroi uma ( Black horse in darkness ) the Tanizaki - Jun'ichirô price. For the novel Shirei he received in 1976 the Nihon Bungaku Taishō ( Grand Prix for Japanese literature). A nineteen -volume complete edition of his works appeared from 1998.

Swell

• John Scott Miller: Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107, p 30
• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 287 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

• Author
• Novel, epic
• Literature (Japanese)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Japanese
• Born 1910
• Died in 1997
• Man