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Mitsugu Saotome is a Japanese novelist and essayist. He was born in Harbin, Manchuria, China, on 1 January 1926. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1950 and began writing novels in the 1950s. He is best known for his novel "The River of Life" (1962), which won the Akutagawa Prize. Saotome has written numerous novels, essays, and short stories, and has received numerous awards, including the Yomiuri Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Kawabata Prize. He has also served as a professor at the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Saotome is married and has two children. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.

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Occupation Novelist
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 1 January 1926
Birthday 1 January
Birthplace Harbin, Manchuria, China
Date of death December 23, 2008 - Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Died Place Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Nationality China

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2006

In 2006, he was elected the chairman of the Japanese P.E.N. After contracting stomach cancer, Saotome died at a hospital in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan.

1989

Saotome claimed that his ancestry from led to his interest in historical matters, and the bulk of his work has been historical fiction set in the Sengoku, Edo or Bakumatsu periods. He was awarded the 23rd Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature (1989) for Aizu Shikon ("The Soul of Aizu Samurai"). Many of his works have been adapted into movies or television series.

1956

In 1956, together with other like-minded authors, he formed a literary criticism group called Shosetsu Kaigi ("Fiction Conference"), with members supporting each other by reviewing each other's work. One of the products of this collaboration was his novel Kyojin no Ori, about the María Luz Incident, which was awarded the 60th Naoki Prize (1968下).

1946

Saotome's grandfather was a samurai of Aizu Domain, and following the defeat of the domain in the Boshin War, immigrated to the United States. However, he later returned to Yokohama and from there to Shanghai. Saotomo was born in Harbin, Manchuria in Northeast China, and thus was raised in Manchukuo; however, following the defeat of Japan in World War II, he was evacuated to Kyushu in 1946. He moved to Tokyo in 1948, and attended Keio University's Literature Department, but left school before graduating. In 1954, the noted author, Yamamoto Shugoro, agreed to become his tutor.

1926

Mitsugu Saotome (早乙女貢, Saotome Mitsugu, January 1, 1926 – December 23, 2008) was the pen-name of Kanegae Hideyoshi, a Japanese writer of historical fiction in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. He won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature and the Naoki Prize.

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