Yoshikichi Furui

Yoshikichi Furui

is a noted Japanese author and translator.

Furui was born in Tokyo and educated at the University of Tokyo, where he majored in German literature and spent his summers hiking in the Japanese Alps. His undergraduate thesis was on Franz Kafka.

In 1970 Furui resigned as assistant professor of German literature at Rikkyo University (Tokyo) to become a fulltime writer. In 1971 his novella "Yoko" (杳子) was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, and he has subsequently won both the Tanizaki Prize and Kawabata Prize.

Furui has also translated Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

Major prizes

* 1970 Akutagawa Prize - "Yoko"
* 1983 Tanizaki Prize - "Asagao" (Morning Glory)
* 1986 Kawabata Prize - "On Nakayama Hill"
* 1997 Mainichi Art Award - "The White-haired Melody "

elected works in translation

* "Child of Darkness: Yoko and Other Stories", trans. Donna George Storey; University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 18, 1997; ISBN 0-939512-79-3.
* "Ravine and Other Stories", trans. Meredith McKinney; Stone Bridge Press, Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature, 1997; ISBN 1-880656-29-9.


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