Kojima Nobuo was a novelist, playwright, essayist, translator, and literary critic from Gifu Prefecture who graduated from Tokyo University. After completing a military tour of northeastern China, he started writing while teaching English at a high school in Tokyo and later at Meiji University. Kojima published Amerikan sukuru (1954; tr. The American School, 1977), which won the Akutagawa Ryunosuke Prize, and his Hoyo kazoku (1965; tr. Embracing Family, 2005) was awarded the Tanizaki Jun’ichiro Prize. Kojima is considered to be a member of the Third Generation of postwar writers, and also won the Noma Prize and the Yomiuri Prize, among many other awards.
See also MODERN THEATER.
Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater. J. Scott Miller. 2009.