Sakai Seiichirō

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Sakai Seiichirō ( Japanese 堺 誠一郎 ; born September 11, 1905 in Nagasaki ; † June 3, 1993 ) was a Japanese writer .

Life

Sakai studied literature at the prestigious Waseda University , but did not graduate. At the beginning of the Shōwa period he worked as a writer for the proletarian theater. In 1933 he began to work at the Chūōkōronsha publishing house . In 1941, during the Second World War , like many of his colleagues, he was stationed as a reporter in the Malaysian part of Borneo . In 1942 he received the Iketani Shinzaburō Prize for Hirono no kiroku ( 廣 Sh の 記録 ) . A year later he was promoted to head of department. He returned to Japan from the war in 1946.

After the war he worked first at the publishing house Sekai Hyōronsha ( 世界 評論 社 ) and from 1955 to 1975 as head of the secretariat of the Japanese Writers 'Association ( 日本 文藝 家 協会 , Nihon bungeika kyōkai, Japan Writers' Association ). Sakai's writing activity stopped in the post-war period. It was not until 1993, at the age of 88, that he published his work Bodaiju e no michi .

Works (selection)

• 1942 Hirono no kiroku ( 曠野 の 記録 )
• 1943 Kinabaru no min kita boruneo kiroku ( キ ナ バ ル の 民 北 ボ ル ネ オ 紀行 )
• 1993 Bodaiju e no michi ( 菩提樹 へ の 道 )

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