OZAKI KAZUO

Ozaki Kazuo was an author from Kanagawa Prefecture who graduated from Waseda University. He studied under Shiga Naoya and published his first work, Nigatsu no mitsubachi (February Bees, 1925) in the literary journal Shucho (Modern Trends). He published the autobiographical novel Nonki megane (1933; tr. Rosy Glasses, 1988) and won the Akutagawa Ryunosuke Prize for it in 1937. Ozaki was an I-Novelist, and several of his novels were made into films. He won the Order of Cultural Merit in 1978.