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Shun Medoruma (目取真 俊, Medoruma Shun, born 10 October 1960) is a Japanese writer, who, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, is one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpō Short Story Prize in 1983 for "Taiwan Woman: Record of a Fish Shoal" ("Gyogunki"), translated by Shi-Lin Loh in Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, and the New Okinawan Literature Prize in 1986 for "Walking the Street Named Peace Boulevard" ("Heiwa doori to nazukerareta machi o aruite"). He was awarded the 27th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and the 117th Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story "A Drop of Water" ("Suiteki"). (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the colle

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  • Shun Medoruma (japanisch 目取真 俊, Medoruma Shun; * 6. Oktober 1960, in , Präfektur Okinawa) ist ein japanischer Schriftsteller. (de)
  • Shun Medoruma (目取真俊, Medoruma Shun) (né le 6 octobre 1960) est, avec Eiki Matayoshi, un des plus importants écrivains contemporains originaires d'Okinawa. Il a reçu le prix Akutagawa en 1997 pour sa nouvelle « Une goutte d'eau » (Suiteki). Les thèmes centraux dans l’œuvre de Medoruma sont l'occupation japonaise et la suppression de la culture et de la langue d'Okinawa, ainsi que la présence de soldats américains sur les îles de l'archipel. (fr)
  • Shun Medoruma (目取真 俊, Medoruma Shun, born 10 October 1960) is a Japanese writer, who, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, is one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpō Short Story Prize in 1983 for "Taiwan Woman: Record of a Fish Shoal" ("Gyogunki"), translated by Shi-Lin Loh in Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, and the New Okinawan Literature Prize in 1986 for "Walking the Street Named Peace Boulevard" ("Heiwa doori to nazukerareta machi o aruite"). He was awarded the 27th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and the 117th Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story "A Drop of Water" ("Suiteki"). (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa.) In 2000 his short story "Mabuigumi" ("Spirit Stuffing," 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes. Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fūon:The Crying Wind, which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year. His critically acclaimed novel In the Woods of Memory (Me no oku no mori, 2009, Tr. Takuma Sminkey, 2017) is the first full-length novel by an Okinawan writer to be translated and published in English. (en)
  • 目取真 俊(めどるま しゅん、1960年10月6日 - )は、日本の小説家、政治活動家。芥川賞受賞者。本名、島袋正。 (ja)
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  • 1960-10-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Nakijin, Okinawa, Japan (en)
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  • Fiction, surrealism, magical realism, (en)
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  • Shun Medoruma (en)
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  • ese (en)
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  • "Droplets" , "Mabuigumi" , Fūon: The Crying Wind , ''Me no oku no mori (en)
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  • Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, activist (en)
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  • Shun Medoruma (japanisch 目取真 俊, Medoruma Shun; * 6. Oktober 1960, in , Präfektur Okinawa) ist ein japanischer Schriftsteller. (de)
  • Shun Medoruma (目取真俊, Medoruma Shun) (né le 6 octobre 1960) est, avec Eiki Matayoshi, un des plus importants écrivains contemporains originaires d'Okinawa. Il a reçu le prix Akutagawa en 1997 pour sa nouvelle « Une goutte d'eau » (Suiteki). Les thèmes centraux dans l’œuvre de Medoruma sont l'occupation japonaise et la suppression de la culture et de la langue d'Okinawa, ainsi que la présence de soldats américains sur les îles de l'archipel. (fr)
  • 目取真 俊(めどるま しゅん、1960年10月6日 - )は、日本の小説家、政治活動家。芥川賞受賞者。本名、島袋正。 (ja)
  • Shun Medoruma (目取真 俊, Medoruma Shun, born 10 October 1960) is a Japanese writer, who, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, is one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpō Short Story Prize in 1983 for "Taiwan Woman: Record of a Fish Shoal" ("Gyogunki"), translated by Shi-Lin Loh in Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, and the New Okinawan Literature Prize in 1986 for "Walking the Street Named Peace Boulevard" ("Heiwa doori to nazukerareta machi o aruite"). He was awarded the 27th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and the 117th Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story "A Drop of Water" ("Suiteki"). (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the colle (en)
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  • Shun Medoruma (de)
  • Shun Medoruma (fr)
  • 目取真俊 (ja)
  • Shun Medoruma (en)
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