| Haruto Kō | |
| Native Name: | 耕 治人 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1906 |
| Occupation: | Poet and novelist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Education: | Meiji Gakuin University |
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| Awards: | 1969 Yomiuri Prize, Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize |
was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.
Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels. Kō received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for Ichijō no hikari,[1] as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.