Taku Miki

, known by his pen name Taku Miki, was a Japanese poet and novelist during the Showa and Heisei era.

Biography Miki was born in Tokyo, and grew up in Manchukuo. He returned to Japan in 1946 and graduated in 1959 from Waseda University where he majored in Russian literature. During college he wrote poems and reviews for literary magazine Bungaku soshiki, and after graduation formed part of the poetry circle around Han ("Inundation").

Miki's principal works include the poetry collection Tokyo gozen sanji (3 AM in Tokyo, 1966), the fairy tale Horobita kuni no tabi ("Travels in a Ruined Country", 1969); and Hogeki no ato de ("After the Bombardment", 1973), which contains the Akutagawa Prize-winning

Major prizes 1967 H-Shi Prize, for Tokyo gozen sanji 1970 Takami Jun Prize, for Waga kidi rando (Our kiddy land) 1973 Akutagawa Prize, for Hiwa (Finch) 1984 Noma Jido Bungei Prize (Noma Juvenile Literary Prize), for Potapota (Drip drip) 1986 Hirabayashi Taiko Prize, for Gyosha no aki (Autumn of the driver) 1997 Tanizaki Prize for Roji Geijutsu Sensho Monbu Daijin Prize