Hiroyuki Itsuki

Hiroyuki Itsuki ( Jap. 五木寛之 , Itsuki Hiroyuki * 30th September 1932 in Fukuoka prefecture as Hiroyuki Matsunobu ( 松延寛之 )) is a Japanese writer. He wrote over 80 novels, numerous essays and hit texts.

Itsuki grew up in Korea. After the Second World War he came to Japan with his parents and from 1947 studied Russian literature at Waseda University . After traveling through Northern Europe and the Soviet Union , he made his debut as a writer in 1966 with the novel Saraba Mosukuwa gurenta (" Farewell, youngsters from Moscow"). For his second novel Aozameta uma o miyo ("See, the pale horse") he received the Naoki Prize in the same year .

This was followed by other novels such as Seishun no mon , Unicōn no tabi , Hitler no isan and Sofia no Aki . In the early 80s, Hiroyuki Itsuki began to be very interested in Buddhism, especially the Jōdo Shinshū school. In 2010 he received the Mainichi Culture Prize for Shinran , a novel about the founder of this school .

Works (selection)

Kingdom of the wind (original title: Kaze no okoku ). Novel. Translated from the Japanese by Isolde Kiefer-Ikeda. Angkor Verlag 2015. ISBN 978-3-936018-88-2 .

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 447 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Japanese Literary History - Modern Japanese Authors - AI