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Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, Nakagami Kenji, August 2, 1946 – August 12, 1992) was a Japanese novelist and essayist. He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin, a member of one of Japan's long-suffering outcaste groups.
Nakagami Kenji (born Aug. 2, 1946, Shingū, Wakayama prefecture, Japan—died Aug. 12, 1992, Wakayama prefecture) was a prolific Japanese novelist whose writing was deeply influenced by his upbringing in a burakumin family.
和歌山県立新宮高等学校 卒業。 新宿でのフーテン生活の後、 羽田空港 などで肉体労働に従事しながら作家修行をする。 1976年 『 岬 』で第74回 芥川賞 を受賞、戦後生まれで初めての芥川賞作家となった。 紀伊半島 （ 紀伊 ）を舞台にした数々の小説を描き、ひとつの血族と「路地」（中上は 被差別部落 の出身で、自らの生まれた部落を「路地」と名付けた）のなかの共同体を中心にした「 紀州熊野 サーガ」 [2] とよばれる独特の土着的な作品世界を作り上げた。 主要作品に『 枯木灘 』（ 毎日出版文化賞 、 芸術選奨新人賞 ）『 千年の愉楽 』『 地の果て 至上の時 』『 奇蹟 』などがある。 1992年 、 腎臓癌 の悪化により46歳の若さで死去した [1] 。 来歴. 複雑な生い立ち.
Aug 12, 1992 · Kenji Nakagami (中上健次 Nakagami Kenji, August 2, 1946 – August 12, 1992) was a Japanese novelist and essayist. He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin, a member of one of Japan’s long-suffering outcaste groups.
Aug 13, 1992 · Kenji Nakagami, a novelist known for his sensual prose about Japan's ostracized Burakumin, died today at a hospital in his home prefecture, Wakayama, about 300 miles southwest...
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail.
Kenji Nakagami has 48 books on Goodreads with 15277 ratings. Kenji Nakagami’s most popular book is The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto.
Kenji Nakagami (1946-1992) was born in Wakayama. He moved to Tokyo after graduation from high school, and joined the literary coterie magazine Bungei Shuto where he published novels, poems and essays. In 1975, he won the Akutagawa Prize, for Misaki (The Cape), the story of which set in his hometown, Shingu-shi.
Aug 14, 1992 · Kenji Nakagami, novelist, born Shingu Japan 1946, died Wakayama 12 August 1992. EVER SINCE early childhood, he had known he was an outcast. But he was an outcast determined to make his...
Aug 12, 1992 · Novelist Nakagami Kenji (to give his name in its usual Japanese order, family name first) was for much of two decades from the early 1970s seen as the great hope on the Japanese literary horizon, the renewer of prose fiction.
