Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist

Mar. 27 Junichiro Tanizaki, : Junichiro Tanizaki, one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary authors, was born in a working-class district in downtown Tokyo in 1886, and died on 30 July 1965. He studied literature at the Tokyo Imperial University, and was much influenced by western writers such as Poe, Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde. He gained recognition with his Complete Works in 1930, although he had written several novels after 1923. He divorced his wife under amicable circumstances very similar to those described in a novel he wrote entitled Some Prefer Nettles'. In 1949 he received the prestigious Imperial Prize for Literature, and in 1951 wrote a modern version of Tales of the Genji in several volumes. At the end of World War II he wrote a long novel named The Makioka Sisters

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