Junzo Shono
Junzō Shōno was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book Purusaido Shokei. Shōno's other award-winning books include Seibutsu, for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, Yube no Kumo, which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize, and Eawase which took the Noma literary prize.Biography
Shōno lived for one year in the United States in the late 1950s on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at Kenyon College in Ohio. He later published a book, Gambia Taizaiki about his experiences at Kenyon.
Shōno was made a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1978. He died of natural causes at his home in Kawasaki on September 21, 2009. Shōno was 88.
