Jūgi Hisama

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Jūgi Hisama ( Japanese 久 間 十 義 , Hisama Jūgi ; born November 27, 1953 in Niikappu , Hokkaidō Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Hisama attended the Sapporo South High School in Hokkaidō. Then he studied French literature at Waseda University . In 1987 he made his debut with "Money Game" ( マ ネ ー ゲ ー ム , Manē gēmu ), for which he was awarded the Bungeishō . Thematically, Hisama deals with the "Toyota Shōji scandal" ( 豊 田 商 事 事件 , Toyota shōji jiken ). In this scandal, over 2000 mostly elderly people were defrauded of more than 20 billion yen. After the scandal became known, the company boss Kazuo Nagano was stabbed to death by two attackers in his home in a spectacular manner in front of 40 reporters.

Hisama is considered a "postmodern" author of contemporary literature. Apart from the fact that this form of contemporary literature has its roots in the 1980s, it has so far hardly been clarified what exactly postmodern means in the case of Japanese literature.

Prizes and awards

  • 1989 Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for Sei-Maria rapusodi ( 聖 マ リ ア ・ ら ぷ そ で ぃ , "Holy Mary Rhapsody")
  • 1990 Mishima Prize for Sekimatsu Geigeiki ( 世紀末 鯨 鯢 記 )

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Toyota Shōji company has nothing to do with the car manufacturer of the same name .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 久 間 十 義 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. January 20, 2009; Retrieved March 5, 2012 (Japanese, online version by Nihon Jinmei Daijiten . Kodansha).
  2. ↑ Biographical summary on the website of the Shinchōsha publishing house (Japanese)
  3. ↑ Lisette Gebhardt (Ed.): “Yomitai! New Literature from Japan ”. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, 2012, pp. 236-37 ISBN 978-3-86893-057-3
personal data
SURNAME Hisama, Jūgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 久 間 十 義 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Niikappu , Hokkaido Prefecture