![]() ![]() SIDELIGHTS: Kobo Abe, Japanese novelist and writer of film scenarios, "occupied a central position among avant-garde artists in Japan," according to Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor J. Tobu otoko (title means "The Flying Man"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1994.Ībe Kobo zenshu, twenty-nine volumes, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1997.Īlso author of Chinnyusha, 1952, Sabakareru kiroku (title means "Judgment Book of Films"), 1978, and Toshi e no kairo, 1980. Carpenter, Kodansha America (New York, NY), 1991. Shi ni isogu kujiratachi, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1986.īeyond the Curve (short stories), translated by Juliet W. Ningen sokkuri, Shincho hunko (Tokyo, Japan), 1976. ![]() Warau Tsuki (short stories title means "The Laughing Moon"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1975. Hasso no shuhen (lectures title means "Circumference of Inspiration"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1974. Han gekiteki ningen (collected lectures title means "Anti-Dramatic Man"), Tyuokoron-sha, 1973. Uchinaro henkyo (essays title means "Inner Border"), Tyuokoron-sha, 1971.Ībe Kobo zensakuhin (title means "The Collected Works of Kobo Abe"), fifteen volumes, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1972–73. Yume no tobo (short stories title means "Runaway in the Dream"), Tokuma-syoten, 1968. Suichu toshi (short stories title means " The City in Water"), Togen-sha, 1964. Ue (title means "The Cry of the Fierce Animals"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1975. Midoriiro no stocking (title means "Green Stocking"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1974. Mihitsu no koi (title means "Willful Negligence"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1971.Īi no megane wa irogarasu (title means "Love's Spectacles Are Colored Glass"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1973. Yurei wa kokoniiru (title means "Here Is a Ghost"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1959.Ībe Kobe gikyoku zenshu (title means "The Collected Plays of Kobo Abe"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1970. Seifuku (title means "The Uniform"), Aokisyoten, 1955. Three Plays, translated with an introduction by Donald Keene, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1993. Tomodachi, Enemoto Takeaki, Kawade-syobo, 1967, translated by Donald Keene as Friends, Grove (New York, NY), 1969.īo ni natta otoko, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1969, translated by Donald Keene as The Man Who Turned into a Stick (produced in New York City at Playhouse 46, May, 1986), University of Tokyo Press (Tokyo, Japan), 1975. Omaenimo tsumi ga aru (title means "You Are Guilty Too"), Gakusyukenkyusha, 1965.Įnomoto Buyo, Tyuokaron-sha, 1965. Ishi no me (title means "Eyes of Stone"), Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1960. Kemonotachi wa kokyo o mezasu (title means "Animals Are Forwarding to Their Natives"), Kodan-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1957. Kiga domei (title means "Hunger Union"), Kodan-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1954. Kabe-S karumashi no hanzai (title means "The Crimes of S. Owarishi michino shirubeni (title means "The Road Sign at the End of the Road"), Shinzenbi-sha, 1948. The Kangaroo Notebook, translated by Maryellen Toman Mori, Knopf (New York, NY), 1996. Carpenter as Secret Rendezvous, Knopf (New York, NY), 1979. Hakootoko, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1973, translation published as The Box Man, Knopf (New York, NY), 1975. Dale Saunders as The Ruined Map, Knopf (New York, NY), 1969, Vintage (New York, NY), 2001. Moetsukita chizu, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1967, translated by E. Dale Saunders as The Face of Another, Knopf (New York, NY), 1966, Vintage (New York, NY), 2003. ![]() Tanin no kao, Kodan-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1964, translated by E. Dale Saunders as The Woman in the Dunes, Knopf ( New York, NY), 1964, adapted screenplay with Hiroshi Teshigahara published under same title, Phaedra (New York, NY), 1966, 2nd edition, 1971. Suna no onna, Shincho-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1962, translated by E. Dale Saunders as Inter Ice Age Four, Knopf ( New York, NY), 1970. WRITINGS: NOVELS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONĭaiyon Kampyoki, Kodan-sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1959, translated by E. MEMBER: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Post-war literature prize, 1950 Akutagawa prize, 1951, for Kabe-S karumashi no hanzai Kishida prize for drama, 1958 Yomiuri literature prize, 1962 special jury prize from Cannes Film Festival, 1964, for film Woman in the Dunes Tanizaki prize for drama, 1967 L.H.D., Columbia University, 1975. Director and producer of the Kobo Theatre Workshop in Tokyo, Japan, beginning in 1973. Education: Tokyo University, M.D., 1948.ĬAREER: Novelist and playwright. PERSONAL: Born March 7, 1924, in Tokyo, Japan died of heart failure, January 22, 1993, in Tokyo, Japan son of Asakichi (a doctor) and Yorimi Abe married Machi Yamada (an artist), March, 1947 children: Neri (daughter).
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