Dan Kazuo
Dan Kazuo ( Japanese 檀 一 雄 ; born February 3, 1912 in South Tsuru County (today: Tsuru City ), Yamanashi Prefecture ; † January 2, 1976 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Dan began to publish poems, novels and plays in a school newspaper at the age of sixteen and won a competition at his school with one of the novels. From 1932 he studied economics at the University of Tokyo , but after graduating he devoted himself entirely to literature. His teachers were Satō Haruo and Dazai Osamu .
In 1944, while he was in China as a war correspondent, he was awarded the Noma Literature Prize for the novel Tenmei . After the end of the Pacific War , he married and settled as a writer in Tokyo. In 1950 he received the Naoki Prize for Shinsetsu Ishikawa Goemon . In the following years he traveled through Japan, visited Europe, the United States, China, Russia, Australia and New Zealand and lived in Portugal for a year in 1970.
In 1972 he returned to Japan and took over the management of the literary magazine Politeia . Due to a serious cancer illness, he withdrew to Kyūshū, where he completed his last novel Kataku no hito in 1975 a few months before his death . This was filmed in 1986 by Kinji Fukasaku .
Works
- Ritsuko sono ai
- Ritsuko sono shi
- Shinsetsu Ishikawa goemon
- Yūhi to kenjū
- Kataku no hito
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- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 147 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Kazuo Dan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Praia de Santa Cruz - Biografia de Kazuo Dan
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dan, Kazuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 檀 一 雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tsuru |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1976 |