Kurahara Korehito

Kurahara Korehito ( Japanese 蔵 原 惟 人 ; * January 26, 1902 , † January 25, 1991 ) was a Japanese literary critic.

Kurahara studied Russian at the University of Tokyo and in 1925 became a correspondent for the magazine Miyako Shimbun in the Soviet Union. Upon his return he joined the Pan-Japanese Federation for Proletarian Art in 1928. Because of his involvement in the proletarian literary movement, he was imprisoned from 1932 to 1940. After the Second World War he was one of the founding members of the New Japan Literary Society and, in 1965, of the Japanese Union for Democratic Literature.

In addition to theoretical writings on proletarian literature, Kurahara wrote monographs on contemporary Japanese literature and translated works by Russian writers into Japanese.

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• The Free Dictionary - Article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979

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