Yoshiyuki Junnosuke

Yoshiyuki Junnosuke ( Japanese 吉 行 淳 之 介 ; born April 1, 1924 in Okayama , † July 26, 1994 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer .

Toshiyuki was the eldest son of the writer Yoshiyuki Eisuke . He was not drafted into the army because of an asthma illness and from 1945 studied English literature at the University of Tokyo , which he left without a degree. During this time he was confronted with the literature of Thomas Mann . He made his living as an editor and founded the literary magazine Ashi , began writing for a scandal magazine and led the life of a dandy. This led to the outbreak of tuberculosis in 1954. During this time he began to write short stories and received for his debut work Shūu ( 驟雨, German rain shower . Dogakusha Verlag 1982 ) theAkutagawa Prize .

In 1956 his first novel Genshoku no machi ( 原色 の 街 ) was published. The novel Suna no ue no shokubutsugun ( 砂 の 上 の 植物 群 , 1963) became a bestseller. In 1970 he received the Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize for Anshitsu ( 暗室 ) . The work was published in 1976 in English translation under the title The Dark Room . For Kaban no nakami ( 鞄 の 中 身 ), Yoshiyuki was awarded the 1975 Yomiuri Literature Prize and the Grand Prize for Japanese Literature . In 1978 he received the Noma Literature Prize for Yūgure made ( 夕 暮 ま で ). In the last few years of his life, Yoshiyuki had cancer; his last novel Medama ( 目 玉 ) remained unfinished.

literature

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
• The Independent , August 5, 1994: James Kirkup - Obituary: Junnosuke Yoshiyuki .
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 1064 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Editor: Institute for Sinology at the University of Würzburg; Director: Hans Steininger, Dogakusha Verlag, Tokyo; which was based on the issue of the series "Shincho Nihon Bungaku", Volume 53; Epilogue: Giro Kawamura; Translation: Claudia & Elart Collani, Jorinde Ebert, Yuko Furusawa, Kozo Hirao

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yoshiyuki is the family name, Junnosuke the first name.