Yoshimi Usui (臼井 吉見, Usui Yoshimi, June 17, 1905 – July 12, 1987) was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.

Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino (安曇野).[1]

In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a law-suit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family.[2]

Selected works

  • Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu (方丈記. 徒然草. 一言 芳談集), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970.
  • Hitotsu no kisetsu, 1975.
  • Butai no ue de, 1976.
  • Genjitsu no gyoshi, Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976.
  • Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū, 15 volumes, 1976-1977.
  • Jikō no tenmatsu (事故のてんまつ), 1977.
  • Jibun o tsukuru (自分 を つくる), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1979.
  • Shohan (初版), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1985.

References

  1. ↑ "谷崎潤一郎賞受賞作品一覧" (in Japanese). Chuokoron-Shinsha. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Van C. Gessel, Three Modern Novelists, Kodansha, 1993; p. 207, note 96


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