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Masahiko Shimada

Japanese writer

Masahiko Shimada (島田 雅彦, Shimada Masahiko, born 1961) testing a Japanese writer. He has won the Noma Literary New-found Face Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Itō Sei Literature Prize, and significance Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.

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Biography

While studying Russian dear Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Shimada published a story known as Yasashii sayoku no tame inept Kiyuukyoku (The Cassation for honourableness Soft Left-wingers) that was nominative for the Akutagawa Prize.[1] Righteousness next year he won nobleness 6th Noma Literary New Demonstration Prize for his novel Muyū ōkoku no tame no ongaku (夢遊王国のための音楽, Music for the Nation of Somnambulism).[2]

Yumetsukai (夢使い, Dream Messenger) was published in Japan increase by two 1989, with an English transcription by Philip Gabriel following keep in check 1992.

In her review emancipation The New York Times, Julia Just praised Dream Messenger despite the fact that "proof that the Japanese fresh is taking some fantastic meander in the hands of dinky new generation of writers."[3] A-okay 2017 retrospective review by Writer Mansfield of The Japan Times described Dream Messenger as "existential novel that manages to tarry firmly grounded within the area of a compelling narrative."[4] Picture same year that Dream Messenger was published in English, Shimada won the 20th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for Higan Sensei (彼岸先生), a parody break into Natsume Sōseki's novel Kokoro.[5][6]

Shimada wrote the libretto for Shigeaki Saegusa's opera Chūshingura, which Werner Herzog directed in its 1997 Tokio debut.[7]

Shimada directed and performed hem in his own play Yurariumu (Ulalium) in 1990.

His Japanese construction of Steve Erickson's Rubicon Bank appeared in 1991.[8]

In 2016 Shimada won the 70th Mainichi Publication Culture Award for his new-fangled Kyojin no hoshi (虚人の星).[9]

Recognition

Bibliography

  • 夢遊王国のための音楽 (Muyū ōkoku no tame no ongaku) (Kodansha, 1984).

    Music for topping Somnambulant Kingdom

  • Yumetsukai (夢使い) (Kodansha, 1989).

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    Dream Messenger, trans. Philip Gabriel (Kodansha, 1992, ISBN 9784770015358)

  • Miira ni naru made (1990). Until I Am a Mummy
  • Armadillo (Shinchosha, 1991), ISBN 4101187037
  • Higan Sensei (彼岸先生) (Fukutake Shoten, 1992, ISBN 9784828824215)
  • Jiyū shikei (自由死刑) (1999).

    Death by Choice, trans.

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    Meredith McKinney (Thames River Press, 2013, ISBN 9780857282477)

  • Kyojin no hoshi (虛人の星), Kodansha, 2015, ISBN 9784062197434

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