Meisei Goto

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Meisei Gotō ( Japanese 後 藤 明 生 , Gotō Meisei , also: Akio Gotō ; * April 4, 1932 , † August 2, 1999 ) was a Japanese writer.

Gotō was born in North Korea. During his youth, his family fled with him to Japan. There he studied Russian literature at Waseda University and worked in a publishing house until 1968. After that he lived as a freelance writer. He wrote more than thirty novels, of which Hasamiuchi (in English translation Shot by Both Sides ) was awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taishō (Grand Prize for Japanese Literature).

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