Shōno Junzō

Shōno Junzō ( Japanese 庄 野 潤 三 ; born February 9, 1921 in Sumiyoshi (today: Osaka ); † September 21, 2009 in Kawasaki ) was a Japanese writer .

Life

Shōno began his writing activity after the Second World War with writing novels. As early as 1954 he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize , the most important award for Japanese- speaking authors, for his book Poolside Shōkei .

In the mid- 1950s he achieved notoriety as one of the young emerging authors alongside Yasuoka Shōtarō and Yoshiyuki Junnosuke . In 1957 he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States for a year and described his experiences there and his life at Kenyon College in Gambier (Ohio) in the book Gambia Taizaiki .

In the following years he won several other awards for his books like Seibutsu ( "Still Life"), which the literary prize of Shinchōsha- publisher won. For his work Yube no Kumo ("Evening Clouds") he was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1965 . In 1971 he was recognized for his book Eawase ("picture cards") with the likewise renowned Noma literature prize.

He has also been a member of the Japanese Academy of Fine Arts since 1978 .

Works

• 1954 Poolside shōkei ( プ ー ル サ イ ド 小 景 , Pūrusaido shōkei )
  • Vignettes from the edge of the swimming pool , translated by Jürgen Berndt, into: Dreams from 10 nights . Berlin, 1975 pp. 541-562
• 1960 Seibutsu ( 静物 )
• 1965 Yube no Kumo ( 夕 べ の 雲 )
• 1971 Eawase ( 絵 合 せ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JAPAN TODAY: Author Junzo Shono dies at 88 (September 22, 2009)

Web links

• Japanese Literature - Biographical Summary

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