MIURA TETSUO

Miura Tetsuo is a novelist from Aomori Prefecture. He attended Waseda University with the intent to study politics and economics, but took a three-year break upon the disappearance and presumed death of his older brother and taught at his hometown high school while starting to write novels. Upon reenrollment, he studied French literature and became a novelist after graduating. He made his authorial debut with the novel Shinobukawa (1960, tr. Shame in the Blood, 2007), which won the Akutagawa Ryunosuke Prize. He has continued his career focusing on I-Novels, and has won the Noma Prize (1976) and the Kawabata Yasunari Prize (1990).