Yasuo Irisawa

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Yasuo Irisawa ( Japanese 入 沢 康夫 , Irisawa Yasuo ; born November 3, 1931 in Matsue ; † October 15, 2018 ) was a Japanese poet .

Irisawa studied French literature at the University of Tokyo and emerged as a literary scholar with work on Gérard de Nerval . However, he was best known as an avant-garde poet. He founded the literary magazine Amorph with Tatsuya Iwanari and published several volumes of poetry. For Waga Izumo, waga chinkon he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1968 and the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize for Tohoi utage in 2002 .

He died in October 2018 at the age of 86.

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  1. Death report nikkei.com, accessed December 1, 2018 ( Japanese )