Umi (magazine)

Umi ( Japanese 海 'sea' ) is the name of a Japanese literary magazine that was published monthly from July 1969 to May 1984 by the publisher Chūōkōronsha (today: Chūōkōron Shinsha ). Immediately after the publication in 1984, the magazine Chūōkōron Bungei Tokushū ( 中央 公 論文 芸 特集 'Chūōkōron special edition for literature' ) followed the magazine Umi. In the early days of the Umi, Nobuyuki Kondō was editor-in-chief, at the time of hiring Marie Miyata. The magazine's stated aim was to present simultaneously published foreign and Japanese literature.

The Japanese authors who published in the Umi include: Jūrō Kara , Yasutaka Tsutsui , Yukio Mishima , Mizukami Tsutomu , Tsuji Kunio . In addition, works by Samuel Beckett , André Pieyre de Mandiargues , Alain Robbe-Grillet , Alejo Carpentier , Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , Gabriel García Márquez , Milan Kundera , John Irving , Kim Chi-ha and Raymond Carver have been published.

Web links

• 苔 花 堂 古 本目録 ・ 文 芸 雑 誌 海 （中央 公論 社） . 苔 花 堂 書店,accessed on March 4, 2014(Japanese, overview of individual issues and contents of the Umi).