Hiroyuki Agawa

nihongo|Hiroyuki Agawa|阿川 弘之|Agawa Hiroyuki|extra= is a 20th century Japanese author born on December 24, 1920 in Hiroshima, Japan.

In high school, Agawa became influenced by Japanese author Shiga Naoya. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942 with a degree in Japanese literature. He was conscripted to serve in the Imperial Japanese Navy near the end of World War II, where he worked as an intelligence officer.

Agawa's major works include "Nennen Saisai" (Years upon Years, 1946), "Haru no shiro" (Spring Castle, 1952), "Kumo no bohyo" (Grave Marker in the Clouds, 1955), and "Gunkan Nagato no shogai". He was awarded the Noma Prize in 1994 and the Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho) in 1999. Agawa wrote three biographical novels, "Yamamoto Isoroku" (1965), "Yonai Mitsumasa" (1978) and "Inoue Seibi" (1986). He has also worked as a columnist, contributing to periodicals.

Agawa concentrates his writing toward the historical fiction and I Novel genres in his writings, often depicting a WWII related theme or himself.

Works

*"Ma no isan", 1952
*"Haru no shiro", 1952 (won the Yomiuri Prize), "Citadel in Spring" (ISBN 0-87011-960-5, ISBN 4-7700-1460-0), translation by Lawrence Rogers, 1990
*"Kumo no bokyo", 1955, "Burial in the Clouds" (ISBN 0-8048-3759-7), translation by Teruyo Shimizu, October 2006
*"Yamamoto Isoroku", 1969, translation by John Bester, with some abridgment approved by Agawa, published as "The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy" (ISBN 0-87011-355-0), 1979
*"Gento", 1966
*"Kurai Hato", 1974
*"Gunkan Nagato no shogai", 1975
*"Yonai Mitsumasa", 1975
*"Inoue Seibi", 1986

Sources

*"Contemporary Authors Online", Gale, 2002
* [https://peripluspublishinggroup.com/tuttle/shopping/product_details.php?id=0804837597 "Burial in the Clouds", Tuttle Pub. info]
* [http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/bngkkn/database/Englishdata/BibliographyonA-bombLit.html Atomic Bomb Literature: A Bibliography]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118(199111)50%3A4%3C948%3AACAMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 JSTOR, "Citadel in Spring" review]