Shizuka Ijūin
Shizuka Ijūin ( Japanese 伊 集 院 静 , Ijūin Shizuka ; born February 9, 1950 ) is a Japanese writer.
The son of Korean immigrants studied at Rikkyō University . In 1974 he received the Japanese citizenship. After initially working for television, he began a career as a writer in 1988. For the novel Chibusa (made into a film by Kichitaro Negishi in 1993 ) he received the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize in 1991 , and the Naoki Prize for Uke zuki the following year . Other works are Kaikyō (1991) and Goro-goro (2002, Yoshikawa Eiji Prize). With Masato Kato and Shōtarō Oikawa he wrote the script for Ryuichi Hiroki's film Kikansha sensei (2004). In 2007 he published a biography of the baseball player Hideki Matsui ( Hideki Matsui: sportsmanship, modesty and the art of the home run ).
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- Japanese Literary History - Modern Japanese Authors, A - I
- Shizuka Ijuin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Toronto Public Library - Ijūin, Shizuka
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ijūin, Shizuka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 伊 集 院 静 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1950 |