Meisei Goto
Meisei Gotō, also known as Akio Gotō, was a Japanese author.Biography
Gotō was born in Yongheung County, South Hamgyong Province in Korea during the Japanese colonial period. He fled with his family to Kyūshū, Japan while in junior high school. He studied Russian literature at Waseda University, with particular interest in Nikolai Gogol. He then worked at an advertising agency and a publishing house, before becoming a professional novelist in 1968.Major prizes
- 1977 Hirabayashi Taiko Award for Yume katari
- 1981 Tanizaki Prize for Yoshino-dayu
English translations
- Shot By Both Sides, trans. Tom Gill, Japanese Literature Publishing Project, 2005 list. Published in the United States by Counterpoint, fall 2008.
Selected works
- Shiteki seikatsu, 1969.
- Waraijigoku, 1969.
- Nani?, 1970.
- Kakarenai hōkoku, 1971.
- Kankei, 1971.
- En to daen no sekai, 1972.
- Gotō Meisei shū, 1972.
- Hasamiuchi, 1973.
- Yonjissai no Oburōmofu, 1973.
- Fumbet suzakari no mufumbetsu, 1974.
- Fushigi na temaneki, 1975.
- Nemuri otoko no me, 1975.
- Ōinaru mujun, 1975.
- Omoigawa, 1975.
- Ugetsu monogatari kikō, 1975.
- Meguriai, 1976.
- Hasamiuchi, 1977.
- Waraizaka, 1977.
- Yukikaeri, 1977.
- Yume katari
- Sake neko ningen, 1978.
- Torashima, 1978.
- Yonjissai no Oburōmofu, Tōkyō : Ōbunsha, 1978.
- Yume to yume no aida, 1978.
- Hari no ana kara, 1979.
- Uso no yō na nichijō, 1979.
- Hachigatsu, 1980.
- Ugetsu Monogatari, Harusame Monogatari, 1980.
- Mieru sekai, mienai sekai, 1981.
- Warai no hōhō : aruiwa Nikorai Gōgori, Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1981.
- Yoshinodayu, 1981.
- Fukushū no jidai, Tōkyō : Fukutake Shoten, 1983.
- Nanji no rinjin, Tōkyō : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1983.
- Shōsetsu ikani yomi ikani kaku ka, 1983.
- Omocha no chi, chi, chi, Tōkyō : Tōjusha, 1984.
- Bungaku ga kawaru toki, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1987.
- Kafuka no meikyū : Akumu no hōhō, Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 1987.
- Memento mori : Watakushi no shokudō shujutsu taiken, Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1990.
- Sukēpu gōto, Tōkyō : Nihon Bungeisha, 1990.
