Japanese literature and theater
ATODA TAKASHI
(1935–)Atoda Takashi is a writer from Tokyo who graduated from Waseda University and worked as a librarian in the Diet Library while writing essays and short stories. His debut novel was Reizoko yori ai wo komete (Love from the Refrigerator, 1953), and he won the Naoki Prize for Napporeon kyo (1979; tr. Napoleon Fever, 1985).