Junzō Shōno | |
Birth Date: | 9 February 1921 |
Birth Place: | Osaka, Japan |
Death Place: | Kawasaki, Japan |
Occupation: | Writer |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Citizenship: | Japanese |
Period: | 1953 - 2006 |
Genre: | Fiction, novels |
was a Japanese novelist.[1] A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book Purusaido Shokei (Poolside Scene). Shōno's other award-winning books include Seibutsu (Still Life), for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds), which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize,[2] and Eawase (Picture Cards) which took the Noma literary prize.
Shōno lived for one year in the United States in the late 1950s on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at Kenyon College in Ohio. He later published a book, Gambia Taizaiki about his experiences at Kenyon.
Shōno was made a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1978. He died of natural causes at his home in Kawasaki on September 21, 2009. Shōno was 88.