Akio Miyazawa

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Akio Miyazawa ( Japanese 宮 沢 章 夫 , Miyazawa Akio ; born December 9, 1956 in Kakegawa , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese playwright and writer.

Life

Akio studied at the Tama Art School , which he left early to found the group "Radical Gajiberibinba System" ( ラ ジ カ ル ル ・ ガ ジ ベ リ ビ ン バ ・ シ ス テ ム ) with Seikō Itō and Naoto Takenaka . His plays were initially comical with an absurdistic attitude.

In 1990 he founded the theater group "U-enchi Saisei Jigyōdan" ( 遊 園地 再生 事業 団 ). His short story Search Engine System Crash was nominated for Akutagawa and Mishima prizes. In 1993 he was awarded the Kishida Kunio Prize for Hinemi . In 2005 he held lectures as a guest lecturer at Waseda University .

Works (selection)

  • Hinemi ( ヒ ネ ミ ), one-act play , EA : 1992
  • Nyūtaun iriguchi ( ニ ュ ー タ ウ ン 入口 , Entrance to New Town), one-act play, EA: 2007

literature

  • John K. Gillspie: Moment (um) of Memory: Metapatterns in Japanese Theater since the 1960s . In: David Jortner, Keiko McDonald, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. (Eds.): Modern Japanese Theater and Performance . Lexington Books, Lanham 2007, ISBN 978-0-7391-1152-9 , pp. 33–49 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. 宮 沢 章 夫 . u-enchi, June 1, 2008, accessed June 4, 2012 (Japanese).
  2. Artist Database - Miyazawa Akio. 国際 交流 基金 (The Japan Foundation), Performing Arts Network, accessed June 4, 2012 (English).
  3. ^ Researcher Database. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on June 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wnp7.waseda.jp

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