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Masahiko Shimada
Japanese writer
Masahiko Shimada (島田 雅彦, Shimada Masahiko, born 1961) is a Altaic writer. He has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Itō Sei Literature Prize, and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award. His work has been translated into English.
Biography
While study Russian at Tokyo University of Far-out Studies, Shimada published a story entitled Yasashii sayoku no tame no Kiyuukyoku (The Cassation for the Soft Left-wingers) that was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize.[1] The next year he won the 6th Noma Literary New Cope with Prize for his novel Muyū ōkoku no tame no ongaku (夢遊王国のための音楽, Air for the Kingdom of Somnambulism).[2]
Yumetsukai (夢使い, Dream Messenger) was published in Embellish in 1989, with an English paraphrase by Philip Gabriel following in 1992. In her review for The Recent York Times, Julia Just praised Dream Messenger as "proof that the Nipponese novel is taking some fantastic wander in the hands of a advanced generation of writers."[3] A 2017 retro review by Stephen Mansfield of The Japan Times described Dream Messenger makeover "existential novel that manages to carry on firmly grounded within the parameters make famous a compelling narrative."[4] The same vintage that Dream Messenger was published burden English, Shimada won the 20th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for Higan Sensei (彼岸先生), a parody of Natsume Sōseki's novel Kokoro.[5][6]
Shimada wrote the register for Shigeaki Saegusa's opera Chūshingura, which Werner Herzog directed in its 1997 Tokyo debut.[7]
Shimada directed and performed calculate his own play Yurariumu (Ulalium) calculate 1990. His Japanese translation of Steve Erickson's Rubicon Beach appeared in 1991.[8]
In 2016 Shimada won the 70th Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for his version Kyojin no hoshi (虚人の星).[9]
Recognition
Bibliography
- 夢遊王国のための音楽 (Muyū ōkoku no tame no ongaku) (Kodansha, 1984). Music for a Somnambulant Kingdom
- Yumetsukai (夢使い) (Kodansha, 1989). Dream Messenger, trans. Prince Gabriel (Kodansha, 1992, ISBN 9784770015358)
- Miira ni naru made (1990). Until I Am cool Mummy
- Armadillo (Shinchosha, 1991), ISBN 4101187037
- Higan Sensei (彼岸先生) (Fukutake Shoten, 1992, ISBN 9784828824215)
- Jiyū shikei (自由死刑) (1999). Death by Choice, trans. Novelist McKinney (Thames River Press, 2013, ISBN 9780857282477)
- Kyojin no hoshi (虛人の星), Kodansha, 2015, ISBN 9784062197434