Kōichi Iijima, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kōichi Iijima

Japanese linguist, novelist and poet

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1930

Place of Birth: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 14-Oct-2013

Profession: poet, translator, novelist, linguist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Koichi Iijima (????, Iijima Koichi, February 25, 1930- October 14, 2013) was a Japanese poet, novelist, and translator.
He was a member of the Japan Art Academy. Born in Okayama City, Iijima graduated from the French Literature Department of Tokyo University.
While in university he established together with, among others, Isamu Kurita the magazine Cahier.
In 1956, he and Makoto Ooka were among the founders of the Surrealism Research Society.In 1953, he published his first collection of poems, Tanin no sora ("Another person's sky").
In 2008, he was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy.
He also worked as a professor at Meiji University and Kokugakuin University.
He translated or wrote about Henri Barbusse, Antonin Artaud, Brassaï, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Henry Miller, Marcel Aymé, Guillaume Apollinaire, etc. He is the father of architecture critic Yoichi Iijima. He died on October 14, 2013, at a Tokyo hospital of malabsorption syndrome.