Keitaro Kondo ( 近藤 啓 太郎 Kondo: Keitaro: March 25, 1920 - February 1, 2002 ) is a Japanese writer , a representative of the literary group The Third New .
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| 近藤 啓 太郎 | |
| Date of Birth | March 25, 1920 |
| Place of Birth | Yokkaichi ( Japan ) |
| Date of death | February 1, 2002 ( 81) |
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| Occupation | prose writer , essayist |
| Years of creativity | 1952 - 2002 |
| Direction | " Third new " |
| Genre | story, tale, biography |
| Debut | "Shipwreck" |
| Awards | Akutagawa Prize Yomiuri Prize |
| Awards | Ryunosuke Akutagawa Prize ( 1956 ) |
Born in Yokkaichi (prefect. Mie ). He graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts (in the class of traditional Japanese painting, " nihonga "). After the war ended, he settled for some time in the city of Kamogawa (prefect. Chiba ), where at first he was engaged in fishing for about a year, and then became a drawing teacher in high school. Working at school, I began to write. He made his debut in 1952 with the story “Shipwreck” (遭難, published in Waseda Bungaku ). Developing a fishing theme close to him, in 1956 he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for the story “Fishing Boat” (海 人 舟). Entering the literary world, he quickly became close to such writers as Hiroyuki Agawa , Junnosuke Yoshiyuki , Sotaro Yasuoka and others, organically fitting into the circle of “third new ones”. He maintained contact with many of them until the end of his life.
In the works of the 1960s, he changed his style somewhat. The works of that time are characterized by eroticism and a departure from jungungaku in the direction of mass literature. A new twist in creativity occurred in the 1970s, when the work “ Samsara . Painting by Yokoyama Taikan ”, and then after the death of his wife from cancer the following year, a serial publication of the titlet Smile dedicated to her began (微笑, 1973).
Subsequently, the style and theme of the works of Kondo repeatedly underwent changes. In addition to the actual works of art, Kondo left a number of studies on contemporary traditional Japanese painting. One of them, the Okumura Togyu (奥 村 土 牛) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize in 1988.