# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/osamu-dazai
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:10.520Z

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birthDate: "1909-06-19"
deathDate: "1948-06-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Shūji Tsushima was born in 1909 and took the pen name Osamu Dazai, drawing on Dostoevsky, Akutagawa, and Murasaki Shikibu to shape a voice steeped in psychological unraveling. The Setting Sun made him a fixture of postwar Japanese literature, but it was No Longer Human — published the year he died — that became his defining work, the one that traveled farthest beyond Japan. He also wrote under the name Shunpei Kuroki for Illusion of the Cliffs. He drowned in June 1948, six days before his thirty-ninth birthday, leaving behind novels that turned self-interrogation into an art form.