Art Encouragement Prize for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
1 appearances
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Edition 38 (1988) award
Bunjaku Yoshida
よしだ ぶんじゃく
Yoshida Bunjaku
Pen Names:
Bunjaku-ko（Used for early works）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1976-04-12 （Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Essayist
- Active Years
- 2000-
- Influenced By
- Haruki Murakami, Mieko Kawakami
- Influenced
- Emerging Writer A
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waseda University | Faculty of Letters | Department of Japanese Literature | 文学士 | 1995-1999 | Japan |
Waseda University
Faculty of Letters
/ Department of Japanese Literature
Degree:
文学士
Period:
1995-1999
Year of Graduation:
1999
Country:
Japan
Active in literary circle during studies
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Yoshida Literary Prize | Summer Fragments | — | Yoshida Literary Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2004 | Kawade Newcomer Prize | A Small Garden | — | Kawade Publishing | 受賞 |
Yoshida Literary Prize
2010
Work:
Summer Fragments
Organization:
Yoshida Literary Foundation
Result:
受賞
Kawade Newcomer Prize
2004
Work:
A Small Garden
Organization:
Kawade Publishing
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Summer Fragments
2009 Short story collection 240 pagesA short story collection depicting people wavering in the corners of the city.
lossurban loneliness
Adaptations
- [Film] Summer Fragments / 佐藤健一 (2012)
Translations
- English translation: Summer Fragments (2013)
Scenes of the Night
2015 Novel 380 pagesA novel exploring memory and time.
memorytime
Bibliography
- A Small Garden (Short stories, 2004)
- Summer Fragments (Short stories, 2009)
- Scenes of the Night (Novel, 2015)
- The Sound of Fragments (Essays, 2018)
Adaptations
- Summer Fragments (film adaptation, 2012)
Translations of Works
- Summer Fragments (English translation, 2013)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical and introspective narrationshort, fragmentary chapters
- Recurring Motifs
- the seafragmented memoryold photographs
Legacy
Recognized as a writer depicting urban loneliness in contemporary Japanese literature.
Academic Societies
- The Japan Literary Society
Quotes
-
A novel is a thread that connects past and present.
Source: Interview (2016) (2016)
Trivia
- He always plays music while writing.
- Prefers fragmentary chapter structures in short story collections.