About Haruto Kō
Lived 1906 – 1988 (aged 81). Haruto Kō was a Japanese poet, novelist and writer.
was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.
Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels. Kō received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for Ichijō no hikari, as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.
English translations "Black Market Blues", in Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection, John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors, New York: Dembner Books, 1987. .
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Who was Haruto Kō?
Japanese writer (1906-1988)
When was Haruto Kō born?
Haruto Kō was born on 1 August 1906 in Yatsushiro.
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Haruto Kō died on 6 January 1988.
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Haruto Kō was a poet, novelist and writer.
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Haruto Kō was Japanese.
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