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Minoru Betsuyaku

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Japanese playwright (1937-2020)

JapanWritersLived 1937 to 2020 · aged 82
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Minoru Betsuyaku was one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists, associated with the Angura ("underground") theater movement in Japan. " His works focused on the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.

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2012Yomiuri Theater Awards
2008Asahi Prize
2007Kinokuniya Awards
1988Art Encouragement Prizes
1968Kishida Prize for Drama

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Minoru Betsuyaku was one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists, associated with the Angura ("underground") theater movement in Japan. He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd." His works focused on the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.

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Japan
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1937 to 2020 · aged 82
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7 languages

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