Kōichi Iijima

Kōichi Iijima
Born (1930-02-25)February 25, 1930
Okayama City
Died October 14, 2013(2013-10-14) (aged 83)
Tokyo
Occupation writer, university professor
Language Japanese
Nationality Japanese
Alma mater Tokyo University
Period 1953-2013
Literary movement surrealism, modernism[1]
Children Yōichi Iijima

Kōichi Iijima (飯島耕一 Iijima Kōichi, February 25, 1930- October 14, 2013) was a Japanese poet, novelist, and translator. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy.

Born in Okayama City, Iijima graduated from the French Literature Department of Tokyo University.[2] While in university he established together with, among others, Isamu Kurita the magazine Cahier. In 1956, he and Makoto ÅŒoka were among the founders of the Surrealism Research Society.[3]

In 1953, he published his first collection of poems, Tanin no sora ("Another person's sky"). In 2008, he was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy. He also worked as a professor at Meiji University and Kokugakuin University. He translated or wrote about Henri Barbusse, Antonin Artaud, Brassai, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Henry Miller, Marcel Aymé, Guillaume Apollinaire, etc.

He is the father of architecture critic Yōichi Iijima.

He died on October 14, 2013, at a Tokyo hospital of malabsorption syndrome.[4]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "飯島耕一氏が死去　詩人" (in Japanese). Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ "訃報:飯島耕一さん８３歳＝詩人、日本芸術院会員" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ "詩人の飯島耕一さん死去" (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ "詩人の飯島耕一さん死去　「他人の空」「アメリカ」" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
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