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安部 公房 ; Abe Kobo
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7 March 1924 - 22 January 1993
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Kobo Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Tokyo. Kobo's real name is Kimifusa. Childhood and youth of the future writer spent in Manchuria, where father Kobo worked as a doctor at Mukden Imperial University. At the age of 19, at the great insistence of his father, Kobo went to the capital of Japan, where he entered the medical faculty of Tokyo Imperial University, but after a year he left his studies and returned home. However, two years later he again went to Tokyo and in 1948 received a doctor's degree.
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Kobo Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Tokyo. Kobo's real name is Kimifusa. Childhood and youth of the future writer spent in Manchuria, where father Kobo worked as a doctor at Mukden Imperial University.
At the age of 19, at the great insistence of his father, Kobo went to the capital of Japan, where he entered the medical faculty of Tokyo Imperial University, but after a year he left his studies and returned home. However, two years later he again went to Tokyo and in 1948 received a doctor's degree. By this time, Abe has already tried himself in the literary field, and, having not worked a day in his specialty, decides to continue writing for himself.
In 1951, Kobo Abe’s novel The Wall was published. The crime of S. Karma, which brings the author fame and is awarded in Japan the highest literary award Akutagawa. The leitmotif of the work is the loneliness of the individual and its instability. This story largely predetermines the further literary activity of the writer.
While still a student, Abe married, and his wife, a designer and artist by profession, became the author of illustrations for many of the writer’s works.
In 1958, the book “The Fourth Ice Age” was published, combining the features of detective, science fiction and intellectual novel, which finally strengthens the writer’s position in Japanese fiction.
World fame for the writer brings works that appear one after another: “Woman in the Sands”, “Alien Face”, “Burned Card”. After the publication of these novels, the writer was spoken about all over the world.
From 1969 to 1980, Kobo Abe ran his own studio, which performed triumphantly not only in Japan but also around the world.
The writer was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Japanese writer died on January 12, 1993.