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Tetsuo Nakagami

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Nakagami Tetsuo

別名: 佐野哲夫
ペンネーム: Tetsuo NakagamiPen name used for his literary work. Birth name is Sano Tetsuo.

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1939-03-06 (Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Osaka City → Tokyo

経歴

職業
poet, translator
活動期間
1966年〜
影響を受けた人物
Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation poets

学歴

Tokyo Keizai University
Faculty of Commerce
国: Japan
Reported to have graduated from the Faculty of Commerce; graduation year not specified.

受賞歴

Takami Jun Prize
2004
対象作品: The Night Elvis Died
主催: Takami Jun Prize Committee
結果: winner
Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize
2004
対象作品: The Night Elvis Died
主催: Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Prize Committee
結果: winner
Shiika Bungakukan Prize
2013
対象作品: Jazz Age
主催: Museum of Modern Japanese Poetry
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Greeting Through the Window of the Down Train

1966年 poetry

An early privately printed collection showing experimental and personal poetic voice.

travelmemorydaily life

Memory and Scream

1980年 poetry

A 1980 poetry collection mixing introspective motifs with social sensibility.

introspectionsociety

Iowa Winter Tales

1983年 poetry

A collection reflecting interest in America and jazz.

American culturemusic

Trees, Water and Family

1996年 poetry

A volume of poems themed on family and nature.

familynature

The Night Elvis Died

2003年 poetry

A set of poems drawing on American culture and pop imagery; one of his prize-winning major works.

pop culturememory

Jazz Age

2013年 poetry

A poetry collection centered on jazz and urban scenes. Winner of the Shiika Bungakukan Prize.

jazzurban life

Modern Poetry Library: Collected Poems of Tetsuo Nakagami

2015年 poetry (collected works)

A collected edition of Nakagami's representative poems published by Shicho-sha.

retrospectiveselected works

全著作

  • Greeting Through the Window of the Down Train (privately printed, 1966)
  • Memory and Scream (Chuseisha, 1980)
  • Iowa Winter Tales (Doyobi Bijutsusha, 1983)
  • Trees, Water and Family (Furansudo, 1996)
  • The Night Elvis Died (Shoshi Yamada, 2003)
  • Jazz Age (Karinsha, 2013)
  • Modern Poetry Library: Collected Poems of Tetsuo Nakagami (Shicho-sha, 2015)

作家による翻訳

  • Michael Raidon 'Rolling Stones' (Shobunsha, 1971)
  • Duke Ellington 'Take the A Train - Duke Ellington Autobiography' (Shobunsha, 1985)
  • Richard Brautigan 'The Days of the Angel who Came Suddenly' (Shicho-sha, 1991)
  • Jack Kerouac 'Desolate Angels' (Shicho-sha, 1994)
  • Jack Kerouac 'Big Sur' (Shinjuku Shobo, 1994/2000, co-translated with Hiroshi Watanabe)
  • Aram Saroyan 'Growing Up in New York - My 1960s' (Shobunsha, 1996)
  • Jack Kerouac 'The Lonely Traveler' (Shinjuku Shobo, 1996)
  • Jack Kerouac 'Paris Satori' (Shicho-sha, 2004)

作風・主題

文体
free verse influenced by the Beat movementcolloquial and rhythmic expression
頻出モチーフ
jazzAmerican culturetravelmemory

評価・遺産

A poet shaped by influences from the Beat Generation who developed a distinctive voice in Japanese poetry. Also contributed as a translator introducing American contemporary literature; recipient of multiple poetry awards.

豆知識

  • His birth name is Sano Tetsuo; he uses the pen name Nakagami Tetsuo.
  • Authority identifiers such as ISNI and VIAF are registered for him.