Nobuo Kojima, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nobuo Kojima

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1915

Place of Birth: Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 26-Oct-2006

Profession: writer, translator, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Nobuo Kojima (?? ??, Kojima Nobuo, February 28, 1915 - October 26, 2006) was a Japanese writer prominent in the postwar era.
He is most readily associated with other writers of his generation, such as Shotaro Yasuoka, who describe the effects of Japan's defeat in World War II on the country's psyche. From an early age, Kojima read a wide variety of literature, both Japanese and Western, and such writers as Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoevsky had a strong influence on his work.
In addition to his fiction, he had a long career as a professor of English literature at Meiji University in Tokyo, publishing criticism and making translations of many major American writers, including Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, and Bernard Malamud.