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Agawa, Hiroyuki (December 1920 - ) was born in Hiroshima. On graduating from Tokyo University in 1942,
he was trained in the Naval Air Corps in Taiwan and worked in communications and intelligence in China.
He returned to Hiroshima, where his parents had experienced the atomic bomb, in March 1946. The reunion is recounted in his earliest work,
"Nennen saisai" ("Years and ages," 1946). "August 6," as Agawa notes in a postscript, combines the stories of friends and acquaintances
who experienced the bombing into the testimony of one family.
Occupation censorship at the time was strict, but the story passed because, the author later observed, "it made no reference to the problems
of after-effect and continued no overt criticism of the U.S.""Devil's Heritage"("Ma no isan,"1953), a documentary novel, is a fuller account of the bombing
through the eyes of a young Tokyo reporter, handling, among other topics, the death of his Hiroshima nephew and survivors' reactions to the Atomic bomb
Casualty Commission, the U.S. agency that conducted research on atomic victims. Agawa wrote about his experiences as a student soldier in "Haru no shiro" (
"Spring castle," 1952, Yomiuri Literary Prize) and "Kurai hato" ("Dark waves,"1974). His other major works include "Kumo no bohyo"
("Grave markers in the clouds," 1955), "Gunkan Nagato no shogai" ("The life of the warship Nagato," 1975), and three biographical novels, "
Yamamoto Isoroku" (1965), "Yonai Mitsumasa" (1978) and "Inoue Seibi" (1986). In 1994 Agawa was awarded the Noma Bungei Prize and in 1999 -the Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho).
he was trained in the Naval Air Corps in Taiwan and worked in communications and intelligence in China.
He returned to Hiroshima, where his parents had experienced the atomic bomb, in March 1946. The reunion is recounted in his earliest work,
"Nennen saisai" ("Years and ages," 1946). "August 6," as Agawa notes in a postscript, combines the stories of friends and acquaintances
who experienced the bombing into the testimony of one family.
Occupation censorship at the time was strict, but the story passed because, the author later observed, "it made no reference to the problems
of after-effect and continued no overt criticism of the U.S.""Devil's Heritage"("Ma no isan,"1953), a documentary novel, is a fuller account of the bombing
through the eyes of a young Tokyo reporter, handling, among other topics, the death of his Hiroshima nephew and survivors' reactions to the Atomic bomb
Casualty Commission, the U.S. agency that conducted research on atomic victims. Agawa wrote about his experiences as a student soldier in "Haru no shiro" (
"Spring castle," 1952, Yomiuri Literary Prize) and "Kurai hato" ("Dark waves,"1974). His other major works include "Kumo no bohyo"
("Grave markers in the clouds," 1955), "Gunkan Nagato no shogai" ("The life of the warship Nagato," 1975), and three biographical novels, "
Yamamoto Isoroku" (1965), "Yonai Mitsumasa" (1978) and "Inoue Seibi" (1986). In 1994 Agawa was awarded the Noma Bungei Prize and in 1999 -the Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho).
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