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    NOGAMI Akira

    Preludes

    Year of first publication : 1956
    • Poem

    OOKA Makoto

    A Poet’s Anthology
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OOKA Makoto
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year of birth : 1931

Country of origin : Japan

Poet and literary critic. Born in Shizuoka in1931. He has written many poetries since his high school. After graduating from Tokyo University in 1953, he has worked at the Yomiuri Press for some years. His poetries have been translated into several foreign languages, through which he has often tried poetry-linking with overseas poets. Ooka is considered to be one of the greatest poets in modern Japan. He has received many distinguished literary awards from both domestic and overseas. Some of them are l’Order des Arts et des Letters in 1989, Japan Art Academy Award in 1995 and Order of Culture in 2003. A member of Japan Art Academy. He served as the 11th President of The Japan P.E.N. Club from 1989 to 1993.

A Poet’s Anthology (Oriori no Uta) is published by Katydid Books in 1994. For A Poet’s Anthology , the author has searched through the whole range of Japanese Poetry.

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The Range of Japanese Poetry (1)

Other works by the author

  • 巻の四 原子力潜水艦「ヲナガザメ」の性的な航海と自殺の唄

    • OOKA Makoto

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