Ayukawa Nobuo

Ayukawa Nobuo ( Japanese 鮎 川 信 夫 , actually: Kamimura Ryūichi ( 上 村 隆 一 ); * August 23, 1920 in Tokyo ; † October 17, 1986 ) was a Japanese poet and literary critic.

The translator of TS Eliot's poem The desert land was one of the founders of the literary magazine Arechi ("The desert land") alongside Tamura Ryūichi and Kuroda Saburō . He is one of the most important and influential poets in Japan after the Second World War. A collection of his poems ( Ayukawa Nobuo shishū ) appeared in 1955. As a literary critic, he published the essay Gendaishi to wa nani ka (What is modern poetry?) On contemporary Japanese poetry in 1949 . He published a collection of his essays on poetry in 1964 under the title Ayukawa Nobuo shiron shū .

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• Fred S. Moramarco, Al Zolynas: "The poetry of men's lives: an international anthology" , University of Georgia Press, 2004, ISBN 9780820323510 , p. 67
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 63 (English, limited preview in the Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Japanese Authors - Modern Japanese Authors, A - I

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ayukawa is the family name, Nobuo the first name.