2024.09.10 13:35Nation

宇能鴻一郎さん死去、９０歳　芥川賞作家、官能小説も

　芥川賞作家で官能小説家としても知られる宇能鴻一郎（うの・こういちろう、本名鵜野広澄＝うの・ひろずみ）さんが８月２８日、心不全のため横浜市内の自宅で死去した。９０歳だった。札幌市出身。葬儀は近親者で行った。
　東京大大学院在学中の１９６２年、巨大なクジラと漁師の格闘を描いた「鯨神（くじらがみ）」で芥川賞を受賞。映画化もされた。性と死の問題から人間の本質に迫る小説を執筆し、７０年代からは官能小説に軸足を移した。嵯峨島昭（さがしま・あきら）名義で「踊り子殺人事件」などミステリー小説も手掛けた。（2024/09/10-13:35）

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2024.09.10 13:35Nation

Japanese Author Koichiro Uno Dies at 90

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Japanese author Koichiro Uno, who won the prestigious Akutagawa prize in 1962, died of heart failure at his home in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Aug. 28. He was 90.
Uno, whose real name was Hirozumi Uno, was awarded the literary prize for his novel "Kujiragami," which depicts a battle between a huge whale and fishermen, when he was a graduate student of the University of Tokyo. The novel was made into a movie.
The native of Sapporo, northern Japan, wrote novels featuring themes such as human nature, sex and death. From the 1970s, he shifted his focus to sensual novels. Under the name Akira Sagashima, he also wrote mystery novels.