Chōkitsu Kurumatani

Chōkitsu Kurumatani ( Japanese 車 谷 長 吉 , Kurumatani Chōkitsu , aka: Kurumatani Yoshihiko ( 車 谷 嘉 彦 ); * July 1, 1945 in Shikama , Hyōgo Prefecture (today: Himeji ); † May 17, 2015 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese writer.

Even in high school, Kurumatani developed the desire to become a writer after reading the works of Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai . He studied German at the Keiō University , reading Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis as the trigger for the choice of course. He worked for an advertising agency and a publishing house as well as an assistant cook in various places in the Kansai region . In 1993 he received the Mishima Prize for Shiotsubo no saji , and two years later the Hirabayashi Taiko Literature Prize for Hyōryūbutsu . In 1998 he was awarded the Naoki Prize for Akame shijūyataki shinjū misui , and in 2001 the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize for Musashimaru .

Works (selection)

• Shiotsubo no saji ( 鹽 壺 の 匙 ) 1992
• Hyōryūbutsu ( 漂流 物 ) 1996
• Akame shijūyataki shinjū misui ( 赤 目 四 十八 瀧 心中 未遂 ) 1998
  • Attempted love death , translated by Katja Busson, cass Verlag, Löhne 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809022-6-7
• Musashimaru ( 武 蔵 丸 ) 2000
  • Musashimaru , translated by Katja Cassing, cass Verlag, Löhne 2016, ISBN 978-3-944751-11-5

swell

• Japanese Literary History - Modern Japanese Authors, J-M
• La Littérature Japonaise - Kurumatani Chōkitsu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elena Giannoulis: "Blood as Ink: Mechanisms of Action and Function of Contemporary Shishōsetsu ", Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86205-248-6 , p. 115