Nejime Shōichi Explained

Nejime Shōichi [ねじめ正一]
Birth Date:	June 16, 1948
Occupation:	Author
Nationality:	Japanese

is a Japanese poet and novelist^[1] born on June 16, 1948.^[2] He dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University while he was majoring in economics.

Biography

While in Aoyama, he ran a business known as Nejime Mingeiten, a folk craft store. He also was a member of a grass lot baseball team known as the "Fouls".In 1989, he won the Naoki Prize. In 1997, he became the first champion of "Poetry Boxing".In 2001, he was in charge of the NHK panel "Words of Power, Poems of Power".

Novels

• Poetry Anthologies
• Negima Shoichi Shishu (Negima Shoichi Poetry Anthology)
• Noumaku Menma
• Kōenji Junjō Shōtengai (Koenji pure heart shopping street)

Essays

• I want to give the power of words
• The enigma of a Nagasaki home.
• 200 Letters to Nagasaki
• Nejime's bruxism

Awards

• 1989 Naoki Prize.^[2]
• One of his stories appears in Read Real Japanese

Notes and References

1. News: 荒地の恋 [著]ねじめ正一. 2010-07-18. 18 November 2007. 重松清. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930085113/http://book.asahi.com/review/TKY200711200289.html. 30 September 2011. dead.
2. Web site: ねじめ正一さんの私の1冊「国旗が垂れる」尾辻克彦 NHK 私の1冊 日本の100冊 . 2010-07-18 . . January 9, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090302190157/http://www.nhk.or.jp/book100/archive/090109.html . March 2, 2009 .