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Hideo Takubo

たくぼ ひでお

Takubo Hideo

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1928-01-25 (Nihonzutsumi, Taitō-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Died
2001-04-14 (Yoyogi-Hachiman, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan) age 73
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Author
Active Years
1951-2001
Memberships
Akutagawa Prize selection committee member (1985-2000), Member of Mita Bungaku
Influenced By
Katao Yamakawa
Nominations
Akutagawa Prize nominee (Kaikin), Akutagawa Prize nominee (Suiren), Akutagawa Prize nominee (Ogori no Haru)

Education

Keio University
Faculty of Letters / Department of French Literature
Country: Japan

Awards

Akutagawa Prize
1969
Work: Deep River
Organization: Bungeishunjū
Result: Winner
Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
1976
Work: Kami no wa
Organization: The Mainichi Newspapers
Result: Winner
Art Encouragement Prize, Minister of Education Award
1979
Work: Shokubai
Category: 文部大臣賞
Result: Winner
Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award
1985
Work: Tsuji-bi
Result: Winner
Yomiuri Literary Prize
1986
Work: Kaizu
Organization: Yomiuri Shimbun
Result: Winner
Noma Literary Prize
1997
Work: Kodamashū
Organization: Noma Cultural Foundation
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Meticulous prose style
Recurring Motifs
Psychological subtlety between men and women

Health

  • Esophageal cancer
    Death due to arterial rupture

Legacy

He was known as a master of short stories and left many works of psychological fiction.