Shō Shibata

Shō Shibata ( Japanese 柴 田 翔 , Shibata Shō ; born January 19, 1935 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer, Germanist and translator.

Shibata first studied engineering and later German at the University of Tokyo . For his work on Goethe's elective affinities , he received the prize of the Japanese Goethe Society in 1961 . The course was followed by a study visit to Frankfurt from 1962 to 1964.

In 1964 Shibata received the Akutagawa Prize for his novel Saredo warera ga hibi . From 1966 to 1969 he taught at the Municipal University of Tokyo, after which he was assistant professor until his retirement in 1995 and later professor at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Tokyo. After retirement he took over until 2006 a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of Kyōritsu Women's University . From 1970 to 1972 he edited the literary magazine Ningen toshite together with Oda Makoto , Kaikō Ken , Takahashi Kazumi and Matsugi Nobuhiko .

Shibata has published literary essays, literary books, translations of works by German authors such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stefan Zweig , Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin as well as several novels, including Okuru kotoba (1966), Tori no kage (1971), Tachitsukusu asu (1971) , Warera senyūtachi (1973), Nonchan no bōken (1975), Chūgokujin no koibito (1992) and Totsuzen ni shīriasu (1992).

Works (selection)

• And it was our days (Saredo warera ga hibi). Translated from the Japanese by Peter Silesius. Iudicium 2009. ISBN 9783891299937
• Scenes of a city (story), in: Zeit der Zikaden , ed. v. Araki / May. Piper 1990. ISBN 3-492-11193-9

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 850 (English, limited preview in the Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Japanese literature - Sho Shibata
• Japanese literature and theater - Shibata Sho
• Iudicium Verlag - Shibata, Shō: And it was our days