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Kenji Maruyama

Japanese writer · Japan · On the map · Writers · Born 1943 · age 82

Kenji Maruyama is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage , in 1966, at the age of 23, becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23, following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo.

Kenji Maruyama is read about 50 times a day, in 7 languages.

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Awards

Akutagawa Prize1966

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Country
Japan
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1943 · age 82

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