Mineo Higashi

Mineo Higashi
Born1938 (age 85–86)
NationalityJapanese
AwardsAkutagawa Prize (1971)
Japanese writer

Mineo Higashi (born 1938) is a Japanese writer. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1971 for his novel An Okinawan Boy (Okinawa no shonen, 1971).[1] The novel's setting is from the city of Koza (later Okinawa City) in the 1950s, where the main character grows up in a family whose business is to arrange meetings between American soldiers and Okinawian girls in the family's apartment.

References

  1. ^ "Okinawa Writers Excel in Literature". The Okinawa Times. 21 July 2001.
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List of Akutagawa Prize winners
1935–1950
  • 1935: Tatsuzō Ishikawa / None
  • 1936: Oda Takeo and Tsuruta Tomoya / Jun Ishikawa and Tomisawa Uio
  • 1937: Ozaki Kazuo / Ashihei Hino
  • 1938: Nakayama Gishū / Nakazato Tsuneko
  • 1939: Handa Yoshiyuki and Hase Ken / Samukawa Kotaro
  • 1940: None / Sakurada Tsunehisa
  • 1941: Tada Yukei / Shibaki Yoshiko
  • 1942: None / Kuramitsu Toshio
  • 1943: Ishizuka Kikuzo / Tonobe Kaoru
  • 1944: Yagi Yoshinori and Ono Juzo / Shimizu Motoyoshi
  • 1949: Kotani Tsuyoshi and Yuki Shigeko / Yasushi Inoue
  • 1950: Tsuji Ryoichi / None
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