Hotta Yoshie

Hotta Yoshie ( Japanese 堀 田 善 衛 ; * July 17, 1918 ; † September 5, 1998 ) was a Japanese writer.

Hotta studied political science at Keiō University until 1942, then Romance studies and wrote poetry for the magazine Arechi while still a student . He worked for the publishing house Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai and from 1945 to 1947 for the propaganda department of the Kuomintang in China. After returning to Japan, he worked as a journalist for the daily Sekai Nippō .

Since the 1950s, Hotta emerged as a writer. For Hiroba no kodoku (Alone in a large square) he received the Akutagawa Prize in 1951 . In the novel Jikan (Zeit, 1955) he dealt with the Nanking massacre . In his later works he portrayed personalities from European cultural history: Francisco de Goya in Goya (1974-77, Osaragi-Jirō Prize 1977), Michel de Montaigne in Misheru jōkan no hito (Michel at the castle; 1991-1994, Watsuji- Tetsurō Culture Prize 1994) and François de La Rochefoucauld in Ra Roshufūkō kōshaku densetsu (Stories about the Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 1998). In 1993 he received the Noma Literature Prize the following year the Asahi Prize .

Works

• Hiroba no kodoku (Alone in a large square)
• Kage no bubun ( 影 の 部分 )
  • German "Parts of a shadow", translated by Jürgen Berndt, in: Dreams from ten nights: Japanese stories of the 20th century, 1992, pp. 364–393
• Sokoku sōshin (loss of the fatherland)
• Kankan (traitor to the fatherland)
• Rekishi (history)
• Jikan (time)
• Hōjōki shiki ( Mainichi Culture Prize 1971)
• Goya (1974-77)
• Misheru jōkan no hito (Michel at the castle), 1991–94
• Ra Roshufūkō kōshaku densetsu (Tales of the Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 1998)

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• J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present" , Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231138048 , p. 107
• German Institute for Japanese Studies - Hotta Yoshie Bunko
• Sense and Form - Authors - Hotta Yosie

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