Takehiro Irokawa
Takehiro Irokawa ( Japanese 色 川 武 大 , Irokawa Takehiro ; writer's name: 阿佐 田 哲 也 , Asada Tetsuya ; born March 28, 1929 in Tokyo ; † April 10, 1989 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Irokawa was the son of a 40-year-old captain who ran a pension for military personnel. When Irokawa was born, his father was 44 years old and was living off his pension without having to work. Irokawa could not make friends with school lessons and was often absent from elementary school to instead see movies and go to the Variété ( Yose ). In 1943 he was obliged to work in an armaments factory. Because of his participation in a newspaper classified as subversive, he was expelled from school after the war and earned his living for several years as a black market trader, petty criminal and gambler.
From the early 1950s Irokawa began to write under various pseudonyms. In 1961 he received the Chūōkōron Young Talent Award for Kuroi fu . This was followed by the Izumi Kyōka Literature Prize (1977 for Ayashii raikyakubo ), the Naoki Prize (1978 for Rikon ), the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize (1982 for Hyaku ) and the Yomiuri Literature Prize (1988 for Kyōjin nikki ). His novel Mājan hourouki , published under the pseudonym Tetsuya Asada , was made into a film by Makoto Wada in 1984 .
Works
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Hyaku ( 百 )
- “One hundred”, translated by Detlef Foljanty, in: Eiko Saito (Ed.) “Explorations. 12 Narrators from Japan ”, Berlin, Volk und Welt, pp. 198–217
Web links
- Takehiro Irokawa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La Littérature Japonaise - Irokawa Takehiro
- Xavier Plathey - Lttérature Japonaise - Irokawa Takehiro
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Irokawa, Takehiro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 色 川 武 大 (Japanese); Asada Tetsuya (writer's name); 阿佐 田 哲 也 (writer name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1989 |