Jinzai Kiyoshi

Jinzai Kiyoshi

Jinzai Kiyoshi ( Japanese 神 西 清 , born November 15, 1903 in Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture , † March 11, 1957 ) was a Japanese writer and translator.

Jinzai studied Russian at Tokyo Foreign Language University . During his student days he founded the magazine Hōki ( 箒 ) with Takeyama Michio and Hori Tatsuo , to which he contributed plays, poems and translations. After completing his studies, he worked, among other things, in the library of the University of Hokkaidō , the magazine Tōkyō Denki Nippō ( 東京 電 気 気 ) and the Soviet trade agency, before he devoted himself entirely to writing from 1932.

In addition to novels, Jinzai also wrote poetry and literary reviews. He wrote plays and founded the theater group Kumo no kai with Kishida Kunio and Fukuda Tsuneari . He was also known as a translator of works by André Gide and Marcel Proust , Alexander Pushkin , Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov ( Uncle Vanya ).

Works

• Tarumi ( 垂 水 ), novel
• Hairo no Me no Onna ( 灰色 の 眼 の 女 ), novel
• Shōnen ( 少年 ), novel
• Shi to Shōsetsu no Aida ( 詩 と 小説 の あ い だ )

Web links

• Kamakura City : biography ( Japanese , English )

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Jinzai is the family name, Kiyoshi the first name.