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Takayuki Kiyooka

きよおか たかゆき

Kiyōka Takayuki

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1922-06-29 (Dalian, (then Japanese-occupied Kwantung Leased Territory))
死没
2006-06-03 (Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan) 83歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Dalian, China → Tokyo, Japan → Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan

経歴

職業
poet, novelist, critic, university professor
活動期間
1949年〜2006年
所属
Hosei University (Professor; later Emeritus), Japan Art Academy (member)
所属団体
Member of the Japan Art Academy
影響を受けた人物
Arthur Rimbaud, Du Fu, Sakutarō Hagiwara
影響を与えた人物

学歴

University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Letters, Department of French Literature / French Literature
国: Japan
Studied under Kazuo Watanabe (渡辺一夫).

受賞歴

Akutagawa Prize
1969
対象作品: Acacia of Dalian
主催: Akutagawa Prize Committee
結果: winner
Yomiuri Literary Prize (Essay/Travel)
1979
対象作品: An Artistic Handshake
部門: 随筆・紀行
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: winner
Gendai Shijin (Contemporary Poet) Award
1985
対象作品: In Early Winter in China
主催: Gendai Shijin Award Committee
結果: winner
Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts
1989
対象作品: The Round Square
主催: Agency for Cultural Affairs / Ministry of Education
結果: winner
Medal with Purple Ribbon
1991
主催: Government of Japan
結果: honor
Japan Art Academy Prize
1995
部門: 詩歌部門
主催: Japan Art Academy
結果: winner
Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (3rd Class)
1998
主催: Government of Japan
結果: honor
Noma Literary Prize
1999
対象作品: The Chestnut Blossoms Said
主催: Noma Cultural Foundation
結果: winner
Mainichi Art Award
2003
対象作品: A Moment / Drunk on the Sun
主催: Mainichi Shimbun
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Frosted Flame

1959年 poetry collection

Debut poetry collection influenced by surrealist imagery; includes the well-known line from the poem 'Plaster': "It is strange that you have a body."

the bodydreamimagery

Acacia of Dalian

1969年 novel/short-fiction cycle

A linked set of stories meditating on the loss of his wife and his native Dalian; winner of the Akutagawa Prize.

lossnostalgiapostwar

The Chestnut Blossoms Said

1999年 novel

A large-scale novel set in interwar Paris weaving real artists and thinkers into a multi-centered narrative; noted for integrating poetry and prose.

Parisartmemory

A Moment

2002年 poetry collection

A late-career poetry collection observing condensed, fleeting moments with acute poetic sensibility.

timemomentsremembrance

全著作

  • Frosted Flame (1959)
  • Daily Life (1962)
  • Sketches of the Four Seasons (1966)
  • Acacia of Dalian (1969)
  • The Chestnut Blossoms Said (1999)
  • A Moment (2002)
  • Long Time No See, Bach (2006)

作家による翻訳

  • Selected Poems of Rimbaud (translation, 1968)

作風・主題

文体
lyricalmusical prose/poetrysurrealist imagery
頻出モチーフ
Dalian (homeland)loss and remembrancedreams and the body

健康

  • interstitial pneumonia
    晩年
    Hospitalized in late life; died in 2006 from complications.

評価・遺産

Takayuki Kiyooka is regarded as a poet-novelist whose lyrical, musical style blurred boundaries between poetry and prose; his Akutagawa Prize and Japan Art Academy recognition mark an important contribution to postwar Japanese literature.

関連学会

  • Japan Art Academy

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (holds works and related materials)

引用

  • It is strange that you have a body.
    出典: Frosted Flame (poem 'Plaster') (1959年)

豆知識

  • Worked for the professional baseball organization (Nippon Professional Baseball predecessor) and is credited with proposing the 'multiple-hit' award concept in Japan.
  • Continued to publish new poems in periodicals such as Gendai Shijin-techo into his later years.