Hiroyuki Agawa

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Hiroyuki Agawa (阿川 弘之 Agawa Hiroyuki?) is a 20th century Japanese author born on December 24, 1920 in Hiroshima, Japan.

In [[high school], Agawa became influenced by Japanese author Shiga Naoya. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942 with a degree in Japanese literature. He was conscripted to serve in the Imperial Japanese Navy near the end of World War II.

Agawa's major works include Nennen Saisai (Years upon Years, 1946), Haru no shiro (Spring Castle, 1952), Kumo no bohyo (Grave Marker in the Clouds, 1955), and Gunkan Nagato no shogai. He was awarded the Noma Prize in 1994 and the Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho) in 1999. Agawa wrote three biographical novels, Yamamoto Isoroku (1965), Yonai Mitsumasa (1978) and Inoue Seibi (1986). He has also worked as a columnist, contributing to periodicals.

Agawa concentrates his writing toward the historical fiction and I Novel genres in his writings, often depicting a WWII related theme or himself.

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