Akira Shimizu - Japanese Literary Awards

プロフィール

性別: 男性
生誕: 1940-11-03 （Tokyo, Japan）
死没: 2011-05-30 （Musashino, Tokyo, Japan） 70歳
国籍: Japan
言語: Japanese
居住地歴: Tokyo (birthplace) → Musashino, Tokyo (later life)

経歴

職業: Poet, Literary critic, Haiku poet
活動期間: 1960年〜2011年

学歴

学校	学部	学科	学位	期間	国
Doshisha University	Faculty of Law	Department of Political Science	—	—	Japan

Doshisha University

Faculty of Law / Department of Political Science

国: Japan

Co-founded the poetry magazine 'Kubi' while a student

受賞歴

年	賞名	対象作品	部門	主催	結果
1966	Gendai Shicho (Gendai Shi Techo) Prize (7th)	—	—	Gendai Shichō	winner

Gendai Shicho (Gendai Shi Techo) Prize (7th)

1966

主催: Gendai Shichō

結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

Contemporary Poetry Notebook Award 1回登壇

第7回（1966年） award

作品

代表作

Nagai Nodo

1966年 Poetry collection

One of his early representative collections, combining poetic experimentation with lyricism.

memorythe cityself

No no Fune (Boat of the Field)

1974年 Poetry collection

A mid-period collection focusing on the relationship between nature and humanity and existential solitude.

naturelonelinessexistence

Portrait of a Poet

1981年 Essays / Poetics

A work of critical essays on poetry and poets.

poeticsliterary history

全著作

Morning Racing Through Night Vision
Nagai Nodo
Shonen
Morning Road
The Ground of Poetry
Collected Poems of Akira Shimizu
No no Fune
Teacher Taeko's Sea
Wagner's Solitude
A Hundred Years

作風・主題

文体: lyrical yet experimental stylefrequent use of metaphor
頻出モチーフ: memory and timecontrast between nature and the citysolitude

健康

myocardial infarction

2011-05-30

Sudden death at home; ended his literary activity.

評価・遺産

A poet and critic active in the late 20th-century Japanese literary scene. He produced numerous poetry collections and contributed to literary criticism and haiku.

豆知識

His father was fireworks researcher Takeo Shimizu.
His elder brother was the poet Tetsuo Shimizu.
He co-founded the poetry magazine 'Kubi' while at university.