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Yukio Mishima
AuthorBooks · Second hand1925-1970
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
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About Yukio Mishima
Birth
1925
Death
1970
First book
1944
Years writing
26
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
Yukio Mishima was an extremely prolific author who wrote over 500 works throughout his career.
Beyond literature, Mishima explored artistic facets such as acting, modeling, and film directing.
His masterpiece, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, is one of the most acclaimed Japanese novels of the 20th century.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times during the 1960s.
His life was marked by an intense duality between his refined aesthetic sensibility and his radical political activism.
