Yoshimi Usui (臼井 吉見, Usui Yoshimi, June 17, 1905 – July 12, 1987) was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.
Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino (安曇野).[1]
In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a law-suit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family.[2]
Selected works
edit- Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu (方丈記. 徒然草. 一言 芳談集), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970.
- Hitotsu no kisetsu, 1975.
- Butai no ue de, 1976.
- Genjitsu no gyoshi, Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976.
- Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū, 15 volumes, 1976-1977.
- Jikō no tenmatsu (事故のてんまつ), 1977.
- Jibun o tsukuru (自分 を つくる), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1979.
- Shohan (初版), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1985.
References
edit- ^ "谷崎潤一郎賞受賞作品一覧" (in Japanese). Chuokoron-Shinsha. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^ Van C. Gessel, Three Modern Novelists, Kodansha, 1993; p. 207, note 96
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