Tanikawa Shuntaro

Tanikawa Shuntaro, 2015

Tanikawa Shuntarō ( Japanese 谷川 俊 太郎 ; born December 15, 1931 in Suginami , Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer , translator and poet .

Tanikawa has over 60 books of poetry published (including many bestsellers), television, radio and film scripts written, children's stories translated (including the Peanuts by Charles Schulz ) and his works publicly presented in America and Europe.

Together with the Swiss poet Jürg Halter , he wrote two chain poems. The two worked on the first poem, entitled Talking Water , for four years, and they wrote the second community text within five days. A title and the date of publication have not yet been determined.

He has received many Japanese prizes and awards (e.g. the 1982 Yomiuri Literature Prize for A map of my days , Japanese: Hibi no chizu ). His works have been translated into 15 different languages ​​so far, and one translation into English ( Floating the River in Melancholy ) even received the American Book Award in 1989 .

Works (selection)

• Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude , first work 1952
• Picnic on the globe (poems, German translation) ISBN 978-3-458-16556-9
• Light hidden in the dark (A Renshi chain poem, with other authors) ISBN 3-932324-04-8
• Listening - み み を す ま す , poem, (English and Japanese text, with pictures and audio CD), 1982, ISBN 4-87799-027-5
• Tanikawa Shuntarô & Jürg Halter : Talking Water , Secession Verlag für Literatur, Zurich 2012
• minimal. 30 poems. German and Japanese. Translated from Japanese by Eduard Klopfenstein. Secession Verlag for Literature, Zurich 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japanese-Swiss chain poem. (No longer available online.) SRF, September 14, 2014, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 26, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

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