About Yoshimi Usui
Lived 1905 – 1987 (aged 82). Yoshimi Usui was a Japanese novelist, writer and literary critic.
was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.
Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino (安曇野).
In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a lawsuit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family.
Selected works Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu (方丈記. 徒然草. 一言 芳談集), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970. Hitotsu no kisetsu, 1975. Butai no ue de, 1976. Genjitsu no gyoshi, Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976. Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū, 15 volumes, 1976–1977. Jikō no tenmatsu (事故のてんまつ), 1977. Jibun o tsukuru (自分 を つくる), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1979. Shohan (初版), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1985.
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Who was Yoshimi Usui?
Japanese writer (1905–1987)
When was Yoshimi Usui born?
Yoshimi Usui was born on 17 June 1905 in Mita.
When did Yoshimi Usui die?
Yoshimi Usui died on 12 July 1987 in Shimo-Takaido.
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Yoshimi Usui was a novelist, writer and literary critic.
What nationality was Yoshimi Usui?
Yoshimi Usui was Japanese.
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