Haruto Kō

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Haruto Kō
Native name
耕 治人
Born(1906-08-01)August 1, 1906
Yatsushiro, Kumamoto
DiedJanuary 6, 1988(1988-01-06) (aged 81)
OccupationPoet and novelist
NationalityJapanese
EducationMeiji Gakuin University
Notable awards1969 Yomiuri Prize, Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize

Haruto Kō (耕 治人, Kō Haruto, August 1, 1906 - January 6, 1988) 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,[1] as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.

English translations[edit]

  • "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. ISBN 978-0-934878-87-6.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "読売文学賞" [Yomiuri Prize for Literature] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved September 26, 2018.

Sources[edit]

  • Yoshikazu Kataoka, Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: 1956-1970, Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, 1972, page 107.
  • J-Pitch article