Nejime Shōichi

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Nejime Shōichi [ねじめ正一]
Occupation Author
Nationality Japanese

Nejime Shoichi [ねじめ正一](1948- ) is a Japanese poet and novelist born on June 16, 1948 (age 59). He dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University while he was majoring in economics.

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[edit] Biography

While in Aoyama, he ran a business known as Nejime Mingeiten, a folk craft store. He also was a member of a grass lot baseball team known as the "Fouls". In 1989, he won the Naoki Prize. In 1997, he became the first champion of "Poetry Boxing". In 2001, he was in charge of the NHK panel "Words of Power, Poems of Power"

[edit] Novels

  • Poetry Anthologies
  • Negima Shoichi Shishu (Negima Shoichi Poetry Anthology)
  • Noumaku Menma

[edit] Essays

  • I want to give the power of words
  • The enigma of a Nagasaki home.
  • 200 Letters to Nagasaki
  • Nejime's bruxism

[edit] Awards

  • 1989 Naoki Prize.
  • One of his stories appears in Read Real Japanese
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