Nobuo Kojima
Nobuo Kojima (
From an early age, Kojima read a wide variety of literature, both Japanese and Western, and such writers as Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoevsky had a strong influence on his work. In addition to his fiction, he had a long career as a professor of English literature at Meiji University in Tokyo, publishing criticism and making translations of many major American writers, including Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, and Bernard Malamud.[1]
Selected works
[edit]Year | Japanese Title | English Title |
---|---|---|
1948 | Kisha no Naka |
In a Train |
1952 | Shoujuu |
The Rifle |
1954 | アメリカン・スクール Amerikan Sukuuru |
The American School |
1965 | Houyou Kazoku |
Embracing Family |
Awards
[edit]- 1954 Akutagawa Prize – American School (Amerikan sukūru 「アメリカン・スクール」)
- 1970 Tanizaki Prize – Embracing Family (Hōyō kazoku, 「
抱擁 家族 」)
Further reading
[edit]"The Rifle," translated by Lawrence Rogers in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, Theodore W. Gossen, (ed.), Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0-19-283304-9
Notes
[edit]- ^ Lawall, Sarah, and Maynard Mack, eds. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. 2nd ed. Vol. F. New York: Norton, 2002.
External links
[edit]- http://homepage1.nifty.com/naokiaward/akutagawa/jugun/jugun32KN.htm
- http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~n-kojima/page/3rd.html
- Nobuo Kojima at J'Lit Books from Japan (in English)
- Synopsis of Embracing Family at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) (in English)