(1868-present)
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Abe Kobo (1924-1993)
Abe is best known for The Woman in the Dunes (1962). Click Here for Books at Amazon.com  |
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927)
Born in Tokyo, Akutagawa studied literature at Tokyo Imperial University. His psychological novel Rashomon later became a film directed by Kurosawa. Akutagawa committed suicide at age 35. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)
Dazai Osamu, the pseudonym of Tsushima Shuji, was one of Japan's leading post-WW II novelists. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com |
Endo Shusaku (1923-1996)
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 Atoda Takashi (1935-
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One of Japan's most famous short-story writers. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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 Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909)
Best remembered for Ukigumo (The Drifting Cloud, 1887), Japan's first serious novel written in colloquial Japanese. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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 Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993)
His novel Black Rain (Kuroi Ame, 1965) examines the effects of WW II on the inhabitants of Hiroshima. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Inoue Yasushi (1907-1991)
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Ishiguro Kazuo (1954-
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British novelist. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Ishikawa Takuboku
(1886-1912)
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Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
Kawabata, a novelist and short-story writer, became the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Kita Morio (1927-
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Trained in psychiatry at Tohoku University, Kita practiced at Keio University Hospital before becoming a writer. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942) Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Kizaki Satoko (1939-
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Kunikida Doppo
(1871-1908)
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Maruya Saiichi (1925-
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) American journalist and novelist who, with the help of his Japanese wife, became the first Westerner to deeply understand the Japanese culture, which he introduced to Western readers in numerous English books and articles. Born in Greece and raised in Dublin, he was named "Lafcadio" after the Ionian island of Lefkas. Hearn became a Japanese citizen in 1894 (Japanese name: Koizumi Yakumo). Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Born Hiraoka Kimitake. In his novels, plays, and short stories, Mishima romanticized pre-Western Japan. Mishima committed ritual seppuku (aka hara-kiri, belly cutting). Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Mori Ogai (1862-1922)
Mori wrote novels, drama, poetry, etc. The Wild Geese (1911-1913) describes the plight of a girl forced to be a mistress. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Mukoda Kuniko
(1929-1981)
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Murakami Haruki
(1949- )
Murakami writes of the rebelliousness and anomie of the 1960s. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Murakami Ryu (1952-
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Winner of the Gunzo Literature Prize and the Akutagawa Prize. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Nagai Kafu (1879-1959)
Nagai was a novelist who studied in the U.S. and France. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Nagatsuka Takashi
(1879-1915)Famous poet and writer of the Meiji (1968-1912) and early Taisho (1912-1926) eras. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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    Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) One of Japan's greatest modern writers, Natsume was a master of the psychological novel. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Oe Kenzaburo
(1935- )
Known for his pacifistic novels and his fiction devoted to his mentally retarded son, Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Nitta Jiro (1942-
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Oda Sakunosuke
(1913-1947)
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Okamoto Kanoko
(1889-1939)
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Saito Sanki (1900-1962)
A dentist and haiku poet, Saito founded several haiku associations and haiku revues. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Shiga Naoya (1883-1971)
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Shimada Masahiko (1961-
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Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943)
Shimazaki was known for his first-person novels (watakushi shosetsu). Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Shono Junzo
(1921- )
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Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) Novelist who wrote about traditional Japanese culture. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Uchida Yoshiko (c.
1921-1992)
American writer who wrote about the Japanese experience in California. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Tokutomi Kenjiro
(1868-1927)
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Tsushima Yuko
(1947- )
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Uno Chiyo (1897-1996)
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Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
A composer of 31-syllable tanka poems, Yosano was known as the Poetess of Passion. Click Here for Books at Amazon.com
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Yoshikawa Eiji
(1892-1962)
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Yoshimoto
Banana (1964-
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