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2 Selected works  



2.1  Poetry (selected)  





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2.3  Songs for television, radio and film (selected)  







3 Awards and nominations  





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Shuntarō Tanikawa
谷川俊太郎
Shuntarō Tanikawa, 2015
Born (1931-12-15) December 15, 1931 (age 92)
Suginami, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Occupation(s)Poet and author
Notable workTwo Billion Light Years of Solitude (1952)
Spouse(s)Eriko Kishida (married 1954-1955)
Tomoko Okubo (married 1957-1989)
Yōko Sano (married 1990-1996)
ChildrenKensaku Tanigawa [ja]
Parent

Shuntarō Tanikawa (谷川 俊太郎, Tanikawa Shuntarō) (born December 15, 1931, in Suginami, Japan) is a Japanese poet and translator.[1] He is considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad.[2] The English translation of his poetry volume Floating the River in Melancholy, translated by William I. Eliott[3] and Kazuo Kawamura and illustrated by Yoko Sano, won the American Book Award in 1989.

Life

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Tanikawa has written more than 60 books of poetry in addition to translating Charles Schulz's Peanuts and the Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese. He was nominated for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to children's literature. He was awarded Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evening in 2022. He also helped translate SwimmybyLeo Lionni into Japanese.

Among his contributions to less conventional art genres is Tanikawa's open video correspondence with Shūji Terayama (Video Letter, 1983). Since the 1970s, Tanikawa also provided short, onomatopoeic verses for picture books he published in collaboration with visual artist Sadamasa Motonaga, whom he had befriended during his residency in New York in 1966, offered by the Japan Society.

He has collaborated several times with the lyricist Chris Mosdell, including creating a deck of cards created in the omikuji fortune-telling tradition of Shinto shrines, titled The Oracles of Distraction.[4] Tanikawa also co-wrote Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad and wrote the lyrics to the theme song of Howl's Moving Castle (film). Together with Jerome Rothenberg and Hiromi Itō, he has participated in collaborative renshi poetry, pioneered by Makoto Ōoka.[5]

The philosopher Tetsuzō Tanikawa was his father. The poet and translator Eriko Kishida was his first wife. The author-illustrator Yōko Sano was his third wife, and illustrated a volume of his poems: Onna Ni, translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura (Shueisha, 2012).[6]

Selected works

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Poetry (selected)

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Novels and drama

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Songs for television, radio and film (selected)

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Awards and nominations

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In 1982, Tanikawa declined the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.

References

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  1. ^ Shapiro, Harvey (12 November 1983). "Books of The Times - New York Times". The New York Times.
  • ^ "Prosing the Question" by Mei Jia, China Daily, 2011-12-15. Retrieved 2012-01-03.
  • ^ William I. Elliott - Modern Poetry in Translation
  • ^ The Oracles of Distraction
  • ^ Tanikawa, Shuntarō, Hiromi Itō, Wakako Kaku, Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, Jerome Rothenberg. Connecting through the Voice, translated by Jeffrey Angles, in Journal of Renga & Renku, issue 2, 2012. p. 169
  • ^ "Sensual poetry on love, marriage". 3 March 2013.
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