Yūichi Seirai
Yūichi Seirai ( Japanese 青 来 有 一 , Seirai Yūichi , actually: Akitoshi Nakamura ( 中 村 明 俊 , Nakamura Akitoshi ); born December 13, 1958 in Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer .
Life
Yūichi Serai studied at Nagasaki University and has been in the city service since 1983. He became manager of the city's Peacebuilding Section in 2005 and director of the city's atomic bomb museum in 2010 . He received the 1995 Bungakukai Prize for New Authors for the short story Jeronimo no Jūjika ( ジ ェ ロ ニ モ の 十字架 ) and in 2001 the Akutagawa Prize for the Seisui short story collection ( 聖水 ) which also included Jeronimo no Jūjika . For his work Bakushin ( 爆 心 ; 2007), also a short story collection, he was awarded the Itō-Sei Literature Prize and the Tanizaki-Jun'ichirō Prize .
Works (selection)
- 2000 Seisui ( 聖水 )
- 2006 Bakushin ( 爆 心 )
- Ground Zero Nagasaki. Translated from the Japanese by Nora Bierich. Angkor Verlag, Frankfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-936018-87-5 .
Web links
- Yūichi Seirai . In: JLPP.go.jp
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seirai, Yūichi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 青 来 有 一 (Japanese, pseudonym); Nakamura Akitoshi (real name); 中 村 明 俊 (Japanese, real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagasaki Prefecture |