Haruo Satō (novelist)

Haruo Sato
Born (1892-04-09)9 April 1892
Shingū, Wakayama, Japan
Died 6 May 1964(1964-05-06) (aged 72)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation Writer
Genre Novel, poem
Literary movement Aestheticism

Haruo Sato (佐藤 春夫, Satō Haruo, 9 April 1892 – 6 May 1964) was a Japanese novelist and poet active during the Taishō[1] and Shōwa periods of Japan.[2] His works are known for their explorations of melancholy.[3] He won the 4th Yomiuri Prize.[4]

Selected works

  • The House of a Spanish Dog, 西班牙犬の家, 1914.
  • Melancholy in the Country, 田園の憂鬱, 1919.

References

  1. Yuko Kikuchi (2007). Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 26–29. ISBN 978-0-8248-3050-2.
  2. Susan Napier (28 December 1995). The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 242–. ISBN 978-0-203-97463-6.
  3. "Haruo Sato's lush, gloomy landscapes," by Eugene Thacker, Japan Times, 4 Jun. 2016.
  4. "読売文学賞" [Yomiuri Prize for Literature] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved September 26, 2018.


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