Morio Kita

Morio Kita (北 杜夫, Kita Morio^?) was the pen name of Sokichi Saitō (斎藤 宗吉, Saitō Sōkichi^?, May 1, 1927 – October 24, 2011), a Japanese novelist, essayist, and psychiatrist.^[1]

A graduate of Tohoku University's School of Medicine, Kita initially worked as a doctor at Keio University Hospital. Motivated by the collections of his father's poems and the books of German author Thomas Mann, he decided to become a novelist. He was the second son of poet Mokichi Saitō. Shigeta Saitō, his older brother, is also a psychiatrist. The essayist Yuka Saitō is his daughter.^{[2][citation needed]}

Awards

• 1960: Akutagawa Prize, for the novel, In The Corner Of Night And Fog, which was about Nacht und Nebel, the campaign in Nazi Germany to catch anti-Nazi activists and members of resistance movements)

Bibliography

Incomplete - to be updated

Novels

• Ghosts (1954)
• The House of Nire. Translated by Dennis Keene. New York: Kodansha International. 1984. ISBN 0870115928.  Briefly noted in The New Yorker 60/48 (January 14, 1985): p. 117

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Essays

• Papa wa Tanoshii Sōutubyō (work with Yuka Saitō, Asahi Shimbun Company, ISBN-13: 978-4022504999)

TV

• Nescafé Gold Blend CM (1974)
• Tetsuko no Heya (1980 and May 12, 2008 with Yuka Saitō)

References

1. ^ Novelist-essayist "Morio Kita dies at 84"
2. ^ Lecture of Morio Kita and Yuka Saitō in Hokuto, Yamanashi, March 13, 2010 (Japanese)

Persondata
Name	Kita, Morio
Alternative names	Saito, Sokichi
Short description	Japanese essayist, novelist and psychiatrist
Date of birth	May 1, 1927
Place of birth	Tokyo City
Date of death	October 24, 2011
Place of death