Haruto Kō
Haruto Kō | |
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Native name | 耕 治人 |
Born | Yatsushiro, Kumamoto | August 1, 1906
Died | January 6, 1988 | (aged 81)
Occupation | Poet and novelist |
Nationality | Japanese |
Education | Meiji Gakuin University |
Notable awards | 1969 Yomiuri Prize, Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize |
Haruto Kō (耕 治人, Kō Haruto, August 1, 1906 - January 6, 1988) was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.
Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels. Kō received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for Ichijō no hikari,[1] as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.
English translations
[edit]- "Black Market Blues", in Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection, John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors, New York: Dembner Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0-934878-87-6.
References
[edit]- ^ "読売文学賞" [Yomiuri Prize for Literature] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
Sources
[edit]- Yoshikazu Kataoka, Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: 1956-1970, Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, 1972, page 107.
- J-Pitch article