Masahiko Shimada
Masahiko Shimada ( Japanese 島 田 雅 彦 , Shimada Masahiko ; born March 13, 1961 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer .
Shimada grew up in Kawasaki and studied Russian and Eastern European languages at Tokyo University . His debut novel Yasashii sayoku no tame no kiyūkyoku ( 優 し い サ ヨ ク の た め の 嬉 遊 曲 , "Divertimento for a gentle left"; 1983) was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize . For his next novel Muyū ōkoku no tame no ongaku ( 夢遊 王国 の た め の 音 楽 , "Music for a sleepwalking kingdom") he received the Noma literature prize for debutants in the following year . This was followed by other novels, a collection of short stories under the title Donna Anna ( ド ン ナ ・ ア ン ナ ) and a socio-pathological study on AIDS ( 未 確認 尾 行 物体 , Mikakunin bikō buttai ).
In the 1990s he founded and directed his own theater group and staged his own play Ulalium ( ユ ラ リ ウ ム , Yurariumu ). He also took on a role in Ryū Murakami's SM film Tokyo Decadence and had himself photographed by the nude photographer Nobuyoshi Araki . In 1992 he received the Izumi-Kyōka Literature Prize for Higan-sensei ( 彼岸 先生 ), in 2006 the Itō-Sei Literature Prize for Taihai shimai ( 退 廃 姉妹 ) and in 2016 the Mainichi Culture Prize for Sorajin no hoshi . From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Mishima Prize selection committee . Shimada has been teaching at Hōsei University since 2003 .
Works (selection)
- Voluntary Self- Execution (Jiyu shikei). Translated from the Japanese by Thomas Hackner. Abera 2014. ISBN 978-3-939876-15-1
- The dolphin in the desert (story), in: Seductive Bracken - The literary Japan reading book , ed. v. Araki / Portner. bankruptcy book 1999. ISBN 388769077X
- The 'real life' of a pseudo-writer (story), in: Well-guarded peaches or About sadness , ed. v. Noboru Miyazaki. bankruptcy book 1992. ISBN 3-88769-057-5
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shimada, Masahiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 島 田雅彦 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |