Haruto Kō

Haruto Kō (耕 治人 Kō Haruto, August 1, 1906 - January 6, 1988) was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.

Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels. Kō received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for Ichijō no hikari, as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.

English translations

• "Black Market Blues", in Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection, John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors, New York: Dembner Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0-934878-87-6.

References

• Japanese Wikipedia article
• Yoshikazu Kataoka, Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: 1956-1970, Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, 1972, page 107.
• J-Pitch article