Keizo Hino
Keizō Hino ( Japanese 日 野 啓 三 , Hino Keizō ; born June 14, 1929 in Tokyo ; † October 14, 2002 ) was a Japanese writer. Hino Keizō's work can be thematically assigned to "environmental literature" ( 環境 文学 , Kankyō Bungaku ) and "fantastic literature" ( 幻想 文学 , Gensō Bungaku ).
Life
Hino lived with his family in Korea from the age of six to sixteen. After returning to Japan, he studied at the University of Tokyo . From 1952 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun , for which he a. a. reported on the Vietnam War from Saigon. From the 1970s he was active as a successful novelist. In 1975 he made his debut with Jene Abendsonne ( あ の 夕 日 , Ano yūhi). The numerous literary prizes he has received include the Hirabayashi Taiko Literature Prize (for Shigan no ie , 1974), the Akutagawa Prize (for Ano yūhi , 1974), the Izumi Kyōka Literature Prize (for Hōyō , 1982), the Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize (for Sakyū ga ugoku yō ni , 1986), the Itō-Sei Literature Prize (for Dangai no toshi , 1992), the Noma Literature Prize (for Taifu no me , 1993) and the Yomiuri Literature Prize (for Hikari , 1995). His novel Yume no Shima was published in German translation under the title Trauminsel .
Works (selection)
- 1980 Hebi no ita basho ( 蛇 の い た 場所 , The place where the snake was )
- 1985 Yume no shima ( 夢 の 島 ),
- Dream island . Translated by Jaqueline Berndt and Hiroshi Yamane, Berlin, Be.bra verlag , 1993, ISBN 978-3-86124-229-1
- 1988 Mukōgawa ( 向 こ う 側 , The Other Side )
- 1990 Doko demo na doko ka ( ど こ で も な い ど こ か , somewhere, nowhere )
- 1995 Hikari ( 光 , light )
swell
- La Littérature Japonaise - Hino Keizo
- Keizo Hino (Translator: Charles De Wolf): Isle of Dreams , new edition Dalkey Archive Press, 2010, ISBN 9781564786036 , p. 159
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lisette Gebhardt : Death in Dystopia . In: “Yomitai! New Literature from Japan ”. Ed. Lisette Gebhardt, Berlin, 2012, EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, pp. 299-301 ISBN 978-3-86893-057-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hino, Keizo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 日 野 啓 三 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 2002 |