H Award
1 appearances
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Edition 10 (1960) award
Kio Kuroda
くろだ きお
Kuroda Kio
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1926-02-28 （Sagae, Yamagata, Japan）
- Died
- 1984-07-24 age 58
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Sagae, Yamagata → Moved to Tokyo (worked in the Keihin industrial area)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, critic
- Active Years
- 1950-1984
- Affiliations
- Dojinshi 'Rettō' (magazine), New Japan Literary Association / Magazine 'Gendai Shi'
- Influenced By
- Hiroshi Sekine, Katsumi Sugawara
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher elementary school | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Higher elementary school
Year of Graduation:
1940
Country:
Japan
After finishing higher elementary school he moved to Tokyo and worked in factories.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | H-shi Prize | Anxiety and Guerrilla | — | H-shi Prize Committee | winner |
H-shi Prize
1960
Work:
Anxiety and Guerrilla
Organization:
H-shi Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Anxiety and Guerrilla
1959 poetry collectionHis first poetry collection, combining proletarian perspectives with avant-garde expression.
laborstrugglepoliticsanxiety
Weapons in the Earth
1962 poetry collectionPoetry collection published by Shichosha; notable for its political engagement and experimental use of language.
resistanceunderground activitythe body
Kio Kuroda: Collected Poems
1966 poetry collectionA collected volume of his poems to date.
avant-gardesocial critique
No Return Home
1979 poetry collectionA late collection addressing the individual and history, illness and solitude.
solitudeillnessmemory
Bibliography
- Fuan to Yugeki (Iizuka Shoten, 1959)
- Chichū no Buki (Shichōsha, 1962)
- Kio Kuroda Shishū (Shichōsha, 1966)
- Kio Kuroda Collected Poems (Shichōsha, 1968)
- Fukikyō (Shichōsha, 1979)
- Shi ni Itaru Kiga (Essays, Kokubunsha, 1965)
- Fusei to Dakkai (San'ichi Shobō, 1972)
- Higan to Shutai (Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1972)
- Poetry and Anti-Poetry: Complete Poems and Essays (Keisō Shobō, 1968)
- Complete Poems of Kio Kuroda (Shichōsha, 1985)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- combination of proletarian and avant-garde poetryexperimental language with political messaging
- Recurring Motifs
- laborstrugglebody and illnessisolation
Health
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Illness of the chest (unspecified)戦後〜療養期間He continued writing while convalescing. Illness and corporeality appear as motifs in his work.
Legacy
Regarded as an extreme example in postwar poetry, noted for combining proletarian and avant-garde elements. He influenced contemporaneous poets and critics.
Archives
- National Diet Library (holds works)
Trivia
- Born in Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture.
- After finishing higher elementary school he moved to the Keihin industrial area and worked in factories.
- He joined the Japanese Communist Party after the war and took part in peasant movements.
- Published his first poetry collection in 1959 and received the H-shi Prize in 1960.