Kōichi Iijima
Kōichi Iijima | |
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Born | Okayama City | February 25, 1930
Died | October 14, 2013 Tokyo | (aged 83)
Occupation | writer, university professor |
Language | Japanese |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Tokyo University |
Period | 1953-2013 |
Literary movement | surrealism, modernism[1] |
Children | Yōichi Iijima |
Kōichi Iijima (
Biography[edit]
Born in Okayama City, Iijima graduated from the French Literature Department of Tokyo University.[2] While in university he established together with, among others, Isamu Kurita the magazine Cahier. In 1956, he and Makoto Ōoka were among the founders of the Surrealism Research Society.[3]
In 1953, he published his first collection of poems, Tanin no sora ("Another person's sky"). In 2008, he was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy. He also worked as a professor at Meiji University and Kokugakuin University. He translated or wrote about Henri Barbusse, Antonin Artaud, Brassaï, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Henry Miller, Marcel Aymé, Guillaume Apollinaire, etc.
He died on October 14, 2013, at a Tokyo hospital of malabsorption syndrome.[4]
Personal life[edit]
He is the father of architecture critic Yōichi Iijima.
Awards[edit]
- Takami Jun Award for ゴヤのファースト・ネームは (Goya no first name wa) (1974)
- Tōson kinen rekitei Award for
飯島 耕一 詩集 (Iijima Kōichi shishũ) (1978) - Gendai shijin Award for
夜 を夢想 する小 太陽 の独言 (Yoru wo musōsuru shotaiyō no dokugen) (1983) - Bunkamura Prix des Deux Magots for
暗殺 百 美人 (Ansatsu hyaku bijin) (1996) - Yomiuri Prize for アメリカ (America) (2005)
- Nihon gendai ishika bungakukan Award (2005)
References[edit]
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飯島 耕一 氏 が死去 詩人 " (in Japanese). Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Retrieved October 23, 2013. - ^ "
訃報 :飯島 耕一 さん83歳 =詩人 、日本 芸術 院 会員 " (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2013. - ^ "
詩人 の飯島 耕一 さん死去 " (in Japanese). NHK. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2013. - ^ "
詩人 の飯島 耕一 さん死去 「他人 の空 」「アメリカ」" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved October 23, 2013.