Minoru Betsuyaku, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Minoru Betsuyaku

Japanese playwright, novelist, and essayist

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1937

Place of Birth: Manchuria, China

Profession: writer, playwright, literary critic, children's writer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Minoru Betsuyaku (?? ?, Betsuyaku Minoru, born 1937) is one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists.
He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and has helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd." His works focused a lot of the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.