biography
| name: |
Tanizaki, Junichiro
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pronunciation:
[tanizakee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1965)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Tokyo, Japan. He became known in the West only after the translation in 1957 of his long novel Sasameyuki (1943–8, trans The Makioka Sisters), a notable example of descriptive realism. Among his later novels are Kagi (1960, The Key) and Futen rojin nikki (1962, Diary of a Mad Old Man). He also translated Murasaki's The Tale of Genji (1010) into modern Japanese. |
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