Japanese literature and theater
NAKAJIMA ATSUSHI
(1909–1942)Nakajima Atsushi wrote poetic short stories set in Micronesia. His one major novel, Hikari to kaze to yume (1942; tr. Light, Wind and Dreams, 1962), is based on the life of Robert Louis Stevenson. He died at a young age of pneumonia contracted as a teacher in Palau.
See also COLONIAL LITERATURE; POETRY.