Takehiro Irokawa
1929
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1989
country of citizenship: Japan
languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese
occupation: novelist, essayist, mahjong player, writer, prosaist
award received: Kawabata award, Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, prix Chūōkōron-Shinjin, Naoki Prize, Yomiuri Prize
Takehiro Irokawa (色川 武大, Irokawa Takehiro, March 28, 1929 – April 10, 1989) was a noted Japanese writer who published both serious literature and light fiction under a variety of pseudonyms including Asada Tetsuya (阿佐田哲也) and Budai Irokawa (色川武大). Many of his works were autobiographical in nature and concerned his life as a mahjong gambler. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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