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Yoshinori Yagi

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Nationality
  
Japanese

Role
  
Author

Alma mater
  
Waseda University

Died
  
November 9, 1999

Education
  
Waseda University

Name
  
Yoshinori Yagi


Born
  
October 21, 1911 Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan (
1911-10-21
)

Notable awards
  
1944 Akutagawa Prize for Ryukanbu 1976 Yomiuri Prize for Kazamatsuri

Notable works
  
Ryukanbu Kazamatsuri

Yoshinori Yagi (八木 義徳, Yagi Yoshinori, October 21, 1911 – November 9, 1999) was a noted Japanese author.

Yagi was born in Muroran, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Waseda University in 1938 with a degree in French literature. In 1944 he became employed in the chemical industry in Manchuria. As a writer, he was a devotee of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Takeo Arishima, and received the 1944 Akutagawa Prize for 劉廣福 Ryūkanbu and the 1976 Yomiuri Prize for Kazamatsuri. Some of his materials are now exhibited in Muroran's Literature Museum.

References

Yoshinori Yagi Wikipedia