Tanizaki
Americannoun
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She has won numerous literary prizes in Japan and the United States, including the Akutagawa Prize for “A Snake Stepped On” and the Tanizaki Prize for “Strange Weather in Tokyo.”
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023
One is a bent for literary adaptation — he has made movies based on the writings of major Japanese authors like Tanizaki and others, many with screenplays by his wife, Natto Wada.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
This was a particular sore point in the militantly imperialist nineteen-thirties, when the novelist Junichiro Tanizaki wrote a modern Japanese translation of “Genji.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015
The original novel, by Nobel Prize laureate Junichiro Tanizaki, had taken the form of a successful 1983 film set in fascist Italy, but this ludicrous "Last Tango in L.A." loses much in the translation.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2014
Some Prefer Nettles, by Junichiro Tanizaki, gave U.S. readers the first real chance to sample the work of Japan's No. 1 living novelist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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