Haniya Yutaka

Haniya Yutaka

Haniya Yutaka ( Japanese 埴 谷 雄 高 , actually Hannya Yutaka (般若 豊); * January 1, 1910 in Taiwan ; † February 19, 1997 ) was a Japanese writer.

Born into a samurai family, Haniya was ailing from childhood. He was initially inclined to anarchism , but then joined the Communist Party of Japan in 1927 and became its agricultural representative. After serving a prison sentence from 1932–33, he withdrew from politics and devoted himself entirely to literature.

After the Second World War he founded the literary magazine Kindai Bungaku , in which he a. a. Works by Abe Kōbō and his first novel Shirei (Spirits of the Dead) published. In the 1950s and 1960s, as a representative of existentialism , he had a great influence on young intellectuals in Japan. In 1960 Genshi no naka no seiji (Politics of Illusions) was published. In 1971 he received the Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize for the short story collection Yami no naka no kuroi uma (Black Horses in the Dark) . For the novel Shirei he received the Nihon Bungaku Taishō (Grand Prize for Japanese Literature) in 1976 . A nineteen-volume complete edition of his works appeared from 1998.

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• S. Noma (Ed.): Haniya Yutaka . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 499.
• John Scott Miller: Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater , Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , p. 30.
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 287 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Haniya is the family name, Yutaka the first name.