Novelist. His original name was Shuji Tsushima and he was the sixth of eleven children of a wealthy landowner. He was educated at the University of Tokyo where he studied French literature. Osamu lived a troubled life and attempted suicide several times before finally succeeding in a double suicide with his lover. Osamu published his first collection of short stories, "Bannen(The Twilight Years)," in 1939. He is perhaps best known for "Shayo(The Setting Sun)" which was published in 1947. He was an iconoclastic writer whose nonconformist approach to writing has established him as a hero to many modern Japanese youth. His story "Hashire Merosu(Run, Merosu!)" was adapted into screen in 1966 under the title "Kiganjo no boken(The Adventures of Takla Makan)." His daughter, Yukio Tsushima, also became a writer and published her first short story in 1969. Her works gained popularity in the 1970s arose from the collapse of the Japanese "bubble economy." They coincided with a return to the Japanese variant of the first-person novel, "shishosetsu," in which vivid descriptions of the mundane reality of the author's own private world predominate.
Novelist. His original name was Shuji Tsushima and he was the sixth of eleven children of a wealthy landowner. He was educated at the University of Tokyo where he studied French literature. Osamu lived a troubled life and attempted suicide several times before finally succeeding in a double suicide with his lover. Osamu published his first collection of short stories, "Bannen(The Twilight Years)," in 1939. He is perhaps best known for "Shayo(The Setting Sun)" which was published in 1947. He was an iconoclastic writer whose nonconformist approach to writing has established him as a hero to many modern Japanese youth. His story "Hashire Merosu(Run, Merosu!)" was adapted into screen in 1966 under the title "Kiganjo no boken(The Adventures of Takla Makan)." His daughter, Yukio Tsushima, also became a writer and published her first short story in 1969. Her works gained popularity in the 1970s arose from the collapse of the Japanese "bubble economy." They coincided with a return to the Japanese variant of the first-person novel, "shishosetsu," in which vivid descriptions of the mundane reality of the author's own private world predominate.
Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett
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