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Shōtarō Yasuoka (安岡 章太郎, Yasuoka Shōtarō, May 30, 1920 – January 26, 2013) was a Japanese writer.
When Yasuoka Shōtarō was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for the first half of 1953 for the short stories “Bad Company” (“Warui nakama,” 1953) and “Gloomy Pleasures” (“Inki na tanoshimi,” 1953), it was the culmination of a quick rise in his career.
Shōtarō Yasuoka (安岡 章太郎 Yasuoka Shōtarō?, May 30, 1920 – January 26, 2013) was a Japanese writer. Yasuoka was born in pre-war Japan in Kōchi, Kōchi, but as the son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, he spent most of his youth moving from one military post to another.
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Shotaro Yasuoka (1920-2013) was born in Kochi. He is an author of the so-called ‘Daisan no Shinjin (Third Generation)' group. After the 2nd World War, while he was suffering from vertebral tuberculosis, he started writing novels.
Shōtarō Yasuoka has 25 books on Goodreads with 1433 ratings. Shōtarō Yasuoka’s most popular book is The Shōwa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories.
Yasuoka Shōtarō (1920–2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Shōwa period (1926–89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories,...
Yasuoka Shōtarō (1920–2013) was baptized into the Catholic Church at the age of 68 by Father Inoue Yōji, with his friend, the Catholic author Endō Shūsaku, acting as godfather.
