Jirō Asada
Jirō Asada ( Japanese 浅田 次郎 , Asada Jirō , aka: Kōjirō Iwato ( 岩 戸 康 次郎 ); * December 13, 1951 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer.
Impressed by the spectacular suicide of the writer Mishima Yukio in 1970, Asada joined the Self-Defense Forces after graduating from high school . He later worked in business and also published articles in various literary magazines. In 1991 he made his debut with the novel Torarete Tamaruka! . For the novel Metoro ni notte (1993) he received the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for Young Authors in 1995 .
In 1997 the novel Poppaya followed , which brought Asada the Naoki Prize . He received the Renzaburo Shibata Prize in 2000 for his work Mibu Gishi Den . The novel Ohara meshimase was awarded twice: the Chūōkōron Literature Prize (2006) and the Shiba Ryōtarō Prize . In 2010 Asada received the Mainichi Culture Prize for Art and Literature for the novel Owarazaru natsu . Several of his novels were also made into films.
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - E-learning kit: Asada Jirō
- La Littérature Japonaise - Asada Jirō
- Editions Picquier - Auteurs - Asada Jirō
- Breguet - Jiro Asada
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asada, Jirō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 浅田 次郎 (Japanese); Kojirō Iwato (real name); 岩 戸 康 次郎 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |