Translation Works
To Japanese
AUTHOR
Jun'ichi Watanabe
 
Jun'ichi Watanabe (1933-) was born in Hokkaido. While studying at Sapporo Medical University, he published his first novel Itanki-hama nite (At Itanki Beach). In 1965, he won the Shincho Coterie Magazine Prize for Shinigesho (The Embalmer's Art). Shitsuraku-en (A Lost Paradise), which he published in 1995, was adapted into a movie and a TV drama and created a huge boom. He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2003.
AWARDS
1965 Shincho Coterie Magazine Prize, for Shinigesho (The Embalmer's Art)
1970 Naoki Prize, for Hikari to Kage (Light and Shadow)
1980 Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize, for Toki Rakujitsu (The Setting Sun in the Distance) & Nagasaki Russia Yujokan (Russian Brothel in Nagasaki)
1986 Bungei Shunju Readers' Prize, for Shijima no Koe: Nogi Maresuke fusai no Shogai (Silent Voice: The Life of General Nogi and His Wife)
2011 Bungei Shunju Readers' Prize, for Tenjo Guren (Burning Flame in Heaven)
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