Hiroshi Noma

Hiroshi Noma (野間 宏, Noma Hiroshi^?, February 23, 1915–January 2, 1991) was a noted Japanese author.

Noma was born in Kōbe to a devout Buddhist family, and took up literature in 1932 after meeting the poet Takeuchi Shizuo. In 1935 he enrolled at Kyoto University, where he studied French literature with a particular interest in French Symbolist poetry. He also became active in Marxist student movements.

Noma's first long novel, Shinku chitai (真空地帯, Zone of Emptiness^?), was published in 1952. It has been called one of the best war novels produced after World War II.^{[citation needed]} In 1971 Noma received the Tanizaki Prize for his 5-volume work Seinen no wa (青年の環^?).

Selected works in translation

• Dark Pictures and Other Stories, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 30, University of Michigan Press, 2000, ISBN 0-939512-03-3.
• Zone of Emptiness, Cleveland & New York, The World Publishing Company, 1956, tr. Bernard Frechtman.

See also

• Japanese literature
• The First Generation of Postwar Writers

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