Saiichi Maruya
Saiichi Maruya | |
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Born | Saiichi Nemura ( August 27, 1925 |
Died | October 13, 2012 | (aged 87)
Occupation | Writer, translator, critic |
Language | Japanese |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Genre | Fiction |
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Saiichi Maruya (
Biography
[edit]Maruya, whose real name was Saiichi Nemura,[4] was born in Tsuruoka city, Yamagata Prefecture on August 27, 1925.[5] His father was a doctor, and apparently wealthy enough to have a big personal library, which whetted Maruya's literary appetite.[6]
Maruya was mobilized into the Japanese Army in March 1945 when still a high school student, but did not see battlefield action as Japan surrendered shortly thereafter.[6] Following the war's end, he completed his high school studies in Niigata, then in 1947 entered the University of Tokyo to major in English literature, although he also studied classical Japanese literature.[5] To develop his own writing style he began translating English works.[5] He translated Joyce's Ulysses[7] in collaboration with Takamatsu Yūichi and Nagai Reiji (1964) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1969. James Joyce's works became a major influence on his writing. After completing his degree, he taught English literature at Kokugakuin University and then at the University of Tokyo. During this time, he wrote several novels, including Ehoba no kao o sakete (エホバ の
Maruya was also an influential literary critic, publishing reviews in the magazine Shukan Asahi and in the Mainichi Shimbun.[5] Maruya said that improving the quality of book reviews in Japan was one of the things he was most proud of.[5] His criticism and essays include Go-Toba In (
Maruya died of heart failure on October 13, 2012.[8]
Awards
[edit]In 1968 Maruya won the Akutagawa Prize for Toshi no nokori (
Selected works in translation
[edit]- Singular Rebellion. trans. Dennis Keene. Kodansha America. 1986. ISBN 978-0870117633.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - A Mature Woman. trans. Dennis Keene. Kodansha International. 1995. ISBN 978-4770018649.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Grass for My Pillow. trans. Dennis Keene. Columbia University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0231126588.
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References
[edit]- ^ Mostow, Joshua S. (2003). The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. Columbia UP. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-231-11314-4.
- ^ "Prize-Winning Writer Saiichi Maruya Dies at 87". Mainichi.jp. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
- ^ Keene, Donald (1999). Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era, Volume 1: Poetry, Drama, Criticism. Columbia UP. p. 578. ISBN 978-0-231-11439-4.
- ^ "Novelist–Critic Maruya Dies at 87". Daily Yomiuri. October 16, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Chiaki Yoshimura (October 15, 2012). "Witty to the End, Award-Winning Writer Maruya Dies at 87". Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
- ^ a b Watanabe, Akira (2010). "Entre James Joyce y Murasaki Shikibu: Saiichi Maruya y la Historia Literaria" (PDF). Contexto-Segunda Etapa (in Spanish). 14 (16).
- ^ O'Neill, Patrick (2005). Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation. U of Toronto P. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8020-3897-5.
- ^ "Prize-Winning Writer Saiichi Maruya Dies at 87". Kyodo News. October 13, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ "Maruya Saiichi Receives Order of Culture" (Press release). Junbungaku. October 25, 2011.
- 1925 births
- Japanese essayists
- 20th-century Japanese novelists
- 21st-century Japanese novelists
- Japanese translators
- University of Tokyo alumni
- 2012 deaths
- Akutagawa Prize winners
- Recipients of the Order of Culture
- 20th-century translators
- 20th-century essayists
- 21st-century essayists
- Writers from Yamagata Prefecture