Yutaka Haniya

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Yutaka Haniya (埴谷雄高, Haniya Yutaka, December 19, 1909 - February 19, 1997) was a noted Japanese author.

Biography

Haniya was born in Taiwan, then a Japanese colony, to a Samurai family named Hannya after the Hannya Shingyo (Heart Sutra). He had a sickly childhood and suffered from tuberculosis in his teens. Although originally interested in anarchism, in 1931 he joined the Japanese Communist Party, became its Agriculture Director the following year, and was promptly arrested. While in the prison's hospital, he devoted himself to studying Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

After World War II, Haniya founded a little magazine entitled Kindai Bungaku (Modern Literature) which became very influential. In this role he discovered and published Kōbō Abe, who subsequently joined Haniya's avant-garde group Yoru no Kai (Night Group).

Haniya was a prolific writer; after his death, Kodansha published his complete works in a set of 19 volumes. He won the Tanizaki Prize in 1970 for his collection Black Horses in the Darkness and other stories.

Selected works

Death Spirits, (Shirei, 死靈), 1946-1996
Black Horses in the Darkness and other stories, (Yami no naka no kuroi uma, 闇のなかの黒い馬), 1970

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 108226811 LCCN: n81011223 ISNI: 0000 0000 8035 0983 GND: 119012200 BNF: cb16620821m NDL: 00007088

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Name	Haniya, Yutaka
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Short description	Japanese writer
Date of birth	1909
Place of birth
Date of death	1997
Place of death

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