Ishikawa Jun

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Ishikawa Jun ( Japanese 石川 淳 , real name Ishikawa Kiyoshi ; born March 7, 1899 in Asakusa , Tokyo ; † December 29, 1987 ) was a Japanese writer, translator and novelist of Japanese modernism.

Life

Ishikawa was born the son of a banker in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. He studied French literature at the Tokyo Foreign Language University . From 1922 to 1923 he served in the Imperial Japanese Navy . He taught French literature at the university. Ishikawa translated the works Les lilies rouges by Anatole France and L'Immoraliste by André Gide into Japanese. Because of disputes over his participation in student protests, he left university to live the life of a bohemian in Tokyo . During this time he translated other works by Gide and Molière .

From 1935 on, Ishikawa wrote short stories, including Kajin ( 佳人 , beautiful woman ). A year later he received the Akutagawa Prize for fugues . In 1938, at the height of the Sino-Japanese War, he published the satire Marusu no uta ( マ ル ス の 歌 , Mars' song ), which was immediately banned.

Ishikawa belongs to the group of Buraiha with Dazai Osamu , Sakaguchi Ango and Oda Sakunosuke . Abe Kōbō became Ishikawa's disciple.

In 1987, Ishikawa Jun died of lung cancer while he was working on his last short story, Hebi no Uta ( 蛇 の 歌 ).

Awards

  • 1936 Akutagawa Prize for Fugues ( 普賢 )
  • 1981 Yomiuri literature prize in the criticism / biographies category for Edo bungaku Shoki ( 江 戸 文學 掌 記 )
  • 1982 Asahi Prize for his contribution to contemporary literature with a 17-volume complete edition

Works

  • 1935 Kajin ( 佳人 )
  • 1937 Yamazakura ( 山 桜 )
  • 1937 joints ( 普賢 )　　
  • 1938 Marusu no uta ( マ ル ス の 歌 )　　

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Ishikawa, Jun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石川 淳 (Japanese); Ishikawa, Kiyoshi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Asakusa Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1987