Shuntaro Tanikawa

Writer, Director, Editor

December 15, 1931 (94 years)
Shuntarō Tanikawa is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature. Several of his collections, including his selected works, have been translated into English, and his Floating the River in Melancholy, translated by William I. Eliott and Kazuo Kawamura, won the American Book Award in 1989.

Known For

  • Tokyo Olympiad
    Tokyo Olympiad1965
  • Visions of Eight
    Visions of Eight1973
  • The Phoenix
    The Phoenix1978
  • The Wanderers
    The Wanderers1973
  • To Love Again
    To Love Again1971
  • Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
    Woman Is a Wonderful Thing1964
  • Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament
    Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament1968

Filmography

1983
1978
1973
1973
The Wanderers · as Screenplay
1971
To Love Again · as Screenplay
1968
Seishun · as Screenplay
1965
Tokyo Olympiad · as Screenplay

1983