Shuntarō Tanikawa

Poet, Author

1931 –

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Who is Shuntarō Tanikawa?

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.

Tanikawa has written more than 60 books of poetry in addition to translating Charles Schulz's Peanuts and the Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese. He was nominated for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to children's literature. He also helped translate Swimmy by Leo Lionni into Japanese. Among his contributions to less conventional art genres is his open video correspondence with Shūji Terayama.

He has collaborated several times with the lyricist Chris Mosdell, including creating a deck of cards created in the omikuji fortune-telling tradition of Shinto shrines, titled The Oracles of Distraction.

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Born
Dec 15, 1931
Tokyo City
Also known as
  • Tanikawa Shuntarō
  • Shiyuntarou, Tanigawa
  • Tanigawa Shiyuntarou
  • Tanikawa Shuntaro
  • Shuntaro Tanikawa
  • S. Tanigawa
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Ethnicity
  • Japanese
Nationality
  • Japan
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on July 23, 2013

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