About Akio Miyazawa
Lived 1956 – 2022 (aged 65). Akio Miyazawa was a Japanese playwright, writer, novelist, university teacher, impresario and radio personality.
Akio Miyazawa ( Miyazawa Akio; 9 December 1956 – 12 September 2022) was a Japanese playwright, writer, and academic.
Biography Miyazawa studied at Tama Art University, which he left prematurely to co-found the group alongside , , , Naoto Takenaka, and .
In 1990, Miyazawa founded the theatre company . His book, Search Engine System Crash, earned him the Akutagawa Prize and the Mishima Yukio Prize. In 1993, he received the Kishida Prize for Drama for his play, Hinemi. In 2005, he was a visiting professor at Waseda University.
Miyazawa died of heart failure in Tokyo on 12 September 2022, at the age of 65.
Plays Hinemi (1992) Nyūtaun iriguchi (2007)
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Japanese writer and director (1956-2022)
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Akio Miyazawa was born on 9 December 1956 in Kakegawa.
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Akio Miyazawa died on 12 September 2022 in Tokyo.
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Akio Miyazawa was a playwright, writer, novelist, university teacher, impresario and radio personality.
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