Kaoru Shōji
Kaoru Shōji ( Japanese 庄 司 薫 , Shōji Kaoru ; actually: Shōji Fukuda ( 福田 章 二 , Fukuda Shōji ); born April 19, 1937 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer.
Shōji was awarded the Chūōkōron Young Talent Award in 1958 for the story Sōshitsu ( 喪失 ). For the first- person novel Akazukin-chan ki o tsukete ( 赤 頭巾 ち ゃ ん 気 を つ け て ) he received the Akutagawa Prize in 1969 . It was very popular among teenage readers in Japan in the 1970s.
His wife was the classical pianist Hiroko Nakamura .
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- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 882 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Rebecca L. Copeland: Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing . In: University of Hawaii Press . 2006, ISBN 978-0-8248-2958-2 , pp. 236 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- La Littérature Japonaise -Shoji Kaoru
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shōji, Kaoru |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 庄 司 薫 (Japanese, pseudonym); Fukuda Shōji (real name); 福田 章 二 (Japanese, real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |