Akira Yoshimura
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Life and work
Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers' union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (Script error: No such module "Lang"., On Parole) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.[1][2]
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Yoshimura's nonfiction chronicle of three previous tsunamis on the coast of Sanriku, Sanriku Kaigan Otsunami received an influx of orders, requiring a reprint of 150,000 copies. Yoshimura's wife and author in her own right, Setsuko Tsumura donated the royalties from the book to the village of Tanohata, which was heavily impacted by the tsunami. Tanohata was a favorite place of Yoshimura's to visit and inspired him to begin research on the historical tsunamis of the area.[3]
Yoshimura was married to the writer Setsuko Tsumura.
Books (selection)
- 1966 Senkan Musashi (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- English edition: Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship (Kodansha USA, 1999)
- 1967 Mizu no sōretsu (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- 1970 Umi no kabe sanriku kaigan ōtsunami (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- 1978 Tōi hi no sensō (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- English edition: One Man’s Justice (Canongate, 2004), Template:ISBN
- 1979 Pōtsumasu no hata (Script error: No such module "Lang".) (on the 1905 Japan-Russia Treaty of Portsmouth negotiation)
- French edition: Les Drapeaux de Portsmouth (Éditions Philippe Picquier, 1990)
- 1982 Hasen (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- English edition: Shipwrecks (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Hasen) (Harvest Books, 1996), Template:ISBN
- 1983 Hagoku (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- 1988 Karishakuhō (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- English edition: On Parole (Harvest Books, 2000), Template:ISBN, loosely adapted into a movie as The Eel
- 1989 Yami ni hirameku (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- 1998 Namamugi jiken (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- 1999 Amerika Hikozō (Script error: No such module "Lang".) (on Joseph Heco)
- English edition: Storm Rider (Harcourt, 2004)
- 2010 Shiroi michi, (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Iwanami Shoten, 2010, Template:ISBN (biographical essays, 208 pages)
Awards and honors
- 1966: Dazai Osamu Prize[4]
- 1973: Kikuchi Kan Prize
- 1985: 36th Yomiuri Prize[5]
- 1997: Japan Art Academy member
- 2006: Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
References
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- ↑ Richard Bernstein: In Old Japan, Human Horror and Nature's Revenge, The New York Times, 24 July 1996.
- ↑ Emily Gordon: on parole, Salon.com, 9 March 2000 (archived).
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