Gen'ichirō Takahashi

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Gen'ichirō Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 源 一郎 , Takahashi Gen'ichirō ; born January 1, 1951 in Onomichi ) is a Japanese writer .

Life

Takahashi studied economics at Yokohama State University . He was imprisoned from November 1969 to August 1970 for illegal gun possession, suffered from aphasia and finished his studies without a diploma . In 1982 he published his debut novel Sayonara, Gyangutachi , for which he received the Gunzō Young Talent Award. In 1988 he received the Mishima Prize , in 2002 he was awarded the Itō-Sei Literature Prize for the novel Nihon bungaku seisuishi , and ten years later he received the Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize for Sayonara Christopher Robin . Since 2005 he has been a professor at the Faculty of International Studies at Meiji Gakuin University .

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