| Kunio Ogawa | |
| Birth Date: | 21 December 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Fujieda, Shizuoka, Japan |
| Death Place: | Shizuoka (city), Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
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was a Japanese novelist born in Fujieda, Shizuoka.
Ogawa was a graduate of the Japanese literature department at Tokyo University. In 1957, Ogawa wrote a book titled Aporon no shima (Isles of Apollo) after taking a trip to the Mediterranean. It was praised by the novelist Toshio Shimao, launching Ogawa's career as a writer. His style is insightful to nature and mankind, and it is noted to be clear yet dense.[1]
He died on April 8, 2008, aged 80, in Shizuoka Prefecture.[2]