Fukunaga Takehiko
Fukunaga Takehiko ( Japanese 福永 武 彦 ; born March 19, 1918 in Fukuoka Prefecture ; † August 13, 1979 ) was a Japanese novelist, poet and translator.
Fukunaga studied French literature and acted as a translator of the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Charles Baudelaire ( Les fleurs du mal , Le Spleen de Paris ) and author of a work on the painter Paul Gauguin ( Gōgyan no sekai ).
With novels such as Fūdo ("Heimaterde", 1951), Bōkyaku no kawa ("The River of Lost Memory", 1964), Shi no shima ("Island of Death", 1969-71) he became one of the most famous Japanese novelists of the 1950s - and 1960s. He also published detective novels under the pseudonym Kada Retarō ( 加 田 伶 太郎 ) and science fiction novels as Funada Gaku ( 船 田 学 ).
Fukunaga spent large parts of his life. a. suffered from tuberculosis, in sanatoriums. He and the poet Harajō Akiko are the parents of the writer Ikezawa Natsuki , who in turn is the father of the voice actress Ikezawa Haruna . The novel Des Grases Blumen was published in 2012 in a German translation by the author, little known in the West .
Works (selection)
Fukunaga Takehiko: The grass's flowers . Translated from the Japanese by Otto Putz. Frankfurt: Angkor Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-936018-84-4
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- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 247 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Shūichi Katō: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world , University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 9780520219793 , p. 178
- La Littérature Japonaise - Fukunaga Takehiko
- Angkor Verlag - Fukunaga Takehiko: The Flowers of the Grass ( Memento from August 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 池 沢 夏 樹 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed March 20, 2012 (Japanese).
- ↑ Ikezawa Haruna: 「私 は 書 か な い の？」 作家 の 家 に 生 ま れ た 私 の 迷 い . In: 文藝 春秋 SPECIAL . No. 19 . Bungei Shunjū-sha, 2012, 著名 人 24 人 の 秘 話 - 私 は こ う し て 家族 の 危機 を 乗 り 越 え た .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fukunaga, Takehiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 福永 武 彦 (Japanese); Kada Retarō (crime fiction pseudonym); 加 田 伶 太郎 (Japanese, crime thriller pseudonym); Funada Gaku (SF pseudonym); 船 田 学 (Japanese, SF pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fukuoka Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1979 |