About Yoshinori Yagi
Lived 1911 – 1999 (aged 88). Yoshinori Yagi was a Japanese novelist and writer.
was a noted Japanese author.
Yagi was born in Muroran, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Waseda University in 1938 with a degree in French literature. In 1944 he became employed in the chemical industry in Manchuria. As a writer, he was a devotee of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Takeo Arishima, and received the 1944 Akutagawa Prize for 劉廣福 Ryūkanbu and the 1976 Yomiuri Prize for Kazamatsuri. Some of his materials are now exhibited in Muroran's Literature Museum.
His Dharma name was Keiunin Zuishin Gitoku Koji (景雲院随心義徳居士).
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Who was Yoshinori Yagi?
Japanese writer (1911-1999)
When was Yoshinori Yagi born?
Yoshinori Yagi was born on 21 October 1911 in Muroran.
When did Yoshinori Yagi die?
Yoshinori Yagi died on 9 November 1999 in Machida.
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Yoshinori Yagi was a novelist and writer.
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Yoshinori Yagi was Japanese.
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