Osamu Dazai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Osamu Dazai

Japanese author

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1909

Place of Birth: Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1948

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Osamu Dazai (?? ?, Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan.
A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (Shayo) and No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai's stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His influences include Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan, he remains relatively unknown elsewhere with only a handful of his works available in English.



Description	Japanese photographer, journalist and photojournalist
Date of birth/death	28 February 1909	16 December 1987
Location of birth/death	Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture	,
Authority control	: Q6983732 VIAF: 110078574 ISNI: 0000 0000 8464 5201 LCCN: n82099041 NDL: 00081119 CiNii: DA02936564 WorldCat