Atsushi Nakajima

Atsushi Nakajima (中島 敦, Nakajima Atsushi, May 5, 1909 – December 4, 1942) was a Japanese author.

Atsushi Nakajima
Atsushi Nakajima.
Born(1909-05-05)5 May 1909
Tokyo, Japan
Died4 December 1942(1942-12-04) (aged 33)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationWriter
Notable worksLight, Wind and Dreams
Sangetsuki
Spouse
  • Taka Hashimoto
    (
    m. 1933⁠–⁠1942)
Children3

Biography

Nakajima was born in Tokyo, Japan. His father was a scholar specialising in Classical Chinese and he communicated his enthusiasm to his son, who is known for poetic short stories in distant historical settings.

Nakajima was sent to Palau in 1941 to teach Japanese but returned in 1942 after being tormented by severe asthma, and died later that year after contracting pneumonia. He completed one major novel, Light, Wind and Dreams, based on the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, and controversial short stories about Micronesia. The Moon Over the Mountain is a collection of his short stories translated by Paul McCarthy and Nobuko Ochner.[1]

gollark: I should really try and port postmarketOS to my old tablet too.
gollark: *listens to those sick System Preferences beatz*
gollark: I sometimes talk about TomatOS or SPUDNET.
gollark: PotatOS already offloads its incident report and backdoor logs storage to that.
gollark: "Your own dedicated server"?

See also

Selected Works in English Translation

Legend of the Master (名人伝), translated by Reiko Seri and Doc Kane. Kobe, Japan, Maplopo, 2020

References
  1. Cozy, David (29 May 2011). "Legends of the Middle Kingdom - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
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