Hiroyuki Itsuki
Hiroyuki Itsuki (Japanese:
Career[edit]
Hiroyuki Matsunobu (Japanese:
In his middle and high school days, he loved reading the novels by the Russian authors, such as Gogol, Chekhov, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky. In 1952, he enrolled himself in the Russian Literature Department of Waseda University, but did not complete college education due to financial difficulty.
After working in Tokyo as a coordinator and a lyricist for the radio programs about ten years, he married Reiko Oka, his college sweetheart and a medical doctor, in 1965, and moved to his wife's town of Kanazawa. He assumed his last name of Itsuki, as one of her wife's uncles did not have children.
In 1965, Itsuki traveled with his wife to the Soviet Union and Scandinavia and published his novel Good-bye to Moscow Hoodlums (Japanese: さらばモスクワ
In 1973, The Tomb of a Toki (Japanese:
Starting in 1981, he studied the history of Buddhism as a special student at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and in 2001 he published Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace in English, which was awarded the Book of the Year prize in the spiritual department.[3] His latest books include Shinran (Japanese:
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The author's profile: Hiroyuki Itsuki (in Japanese)
- ^ "
直木賞 受賞 者 一覧 " [Naoki Prize Winners List] (in Japanese).日本文学振興会 . Retrieved September 13, 2018. - ^ Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace