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Akira Yoshimura was born in 1927 in the city of Osaka, Japan. He is a renowned Japanese novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his novel, “The Sea and Poison”, which won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1958. Yoshimura graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1950 with a degree in literature. He then went on to work as a journalist for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. In 1958, he published his first novel, “The Sea and Poison”, which won the Akutagawa Prize. Yoshimura has written numerous novels and short stories, including “The River Ki”, “The Sound of Waves”, “The Setting Sun”, “The Shadow of a Tree”, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, and “The Housekeeper and the Professor”. He has also written several non-fiction works, including “The Japanese Way of Life” and “The Japanese Way of Thinking”. Yoshimura has received numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Culture in 1983, the Yomiuri Prize in 1984, and the Order of the Rising Sun in 1989. He was also awarded the Noma Literary Prize in 1992. Yoshimura is 79 years old. He is married and has two children. His net worth is not publicly available.

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Age 79 years old
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Born 1 May 1927
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His wife is Tsumura Setsuko

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2011

After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Yoshimura's nonfiction chronicle of three previous tsunamis on the coast of Sanriku, Sanriku Kaigan Otsunami received an influx of orders, requiring a reprint of 150,000 copies. Yoshimura's wife and author in her own right, Setsuko Tsumura donated the royalties from the book to the village of Tanohata, which was heavily impacted by the tsunami. Tanohata was a favorite place of Yoshimura's to visit and inspired him to begin research on the historical tsunamis of the area.

1984

Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers' union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄, On Parole) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.

1927

Akira Yoshimura (吉村 昭, Yoshimura Akira, May 1, 1927 – July 31, 2006) was an award-winning Japanese writer. Internationally he is best known for his novels Shipwrecks and On Parole.