Hirano Ken
Hirano Ken ( Japanese 平野 謙 ; born October 30, 1907 in Kyoto ; † April 3, 1978 ) was a Japanese writer and literary critic.
Life
Hirano attended school together with the later writer Honda Shūgo . He studied literature at the University of Tokyo and during this time he joined the proletarian literary movement. On the recommendation of Honda, he became a member of the Proletarian Research Institute and, after graduating, became co-editor of the journal Puroretaria bunka (Proletarian Culture). The case of the murder of a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Japan as an alleged police spy in 1933 shocked Hirano and distanced him from the party and the proletarian literary movement associated with it.
In the late 1930s founded Hirano with Honda Shugo and Yamamuro Shizuo magazine Hihyō . After the outbreak of the war with the USA in 1941 he became an employee of the Japanese secret service, for which he worked until 1943, and a member of the patriotic literary society Bungaku Hokokukai . After the war he co-founded the magazine Kindai bungaku and the Central Committee of the New Japan Literary Society . From 1958 until his death he was professor of literature at Meiji University . In 1969 he was awarded the Mainichi Art Prize. He is considered to be the discoverer of writers like Ōe Kenzaburō and Kurahashi Yumiko . In 1975 he received the Noma Literature Prize .
Works
- Hirano Ken et al .: Nihon puroretaria bungaku taikei , 1954
- Hirano Ken, Odagiri Hideo , Yamamoto Kenkichi : Gendai Nihon bungaku ronsōshi , 1956
- Shōwa bungaku oboegaki , 1956
- Shimazaki Tōson , 1956
- Nakamura Mitsuo , Usui Yoshimi , Hirano Ken (Eds.): Gendai Nihon bungakushi , 1959
- Hirano Ken (Ed.): Mayama Seika , Chikamatsu Shūkō shuu , 1973
- Hirano Ken zenshu , 1974
- Shōwa bungaku shiron , 1977
- Shimazaki Tōson; Sengo bungei hyōron , 1979
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- J. Victor Koschmann: "Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan" , University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 9780226451213 , pp. 69 ff
- Rebecca L. Copeland, "Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing," University of Hawaii Press, 2006, ISBN 9780824829582 , p. 238
- Johns Hopkins University Libraries - Hirano, Ken
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirano, Ken |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 平野 謙 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyoto |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1978 |