Baku Akae

Baku Akae (赤江 瀑, Akae Baku, April 22, 1933 – June 8, 2012) was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi.[1]

His novel Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃, Oedipus' Sword) won the 1st Kadokawa Novel Award in 1974.[2]

In 1984, his novels Kaikyou (海峡 Straits) and Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills) won the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature.[2]

Selection of works

• Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃 Oedipus' Sword). 1974.
• Kaikyou (海峡 Straits). 1984.
• Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills). 1984. Translated by Nancy H Ross, Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Volume 3: Tales of the Metropolis, Kurodahan Press, 2009.
• Aruman no dorei (アルマンの奴隷 Allemagne's Slaves). 1990.
• Gijokoku no mori no nagame (戯場国の森の眺め View of the Woods in the Playland) . 1996.
• Koso no fune (香草の船 The Grass Boat). 1990.

See also

• Japanese literature
• List of Japanese authors

References

1. Kyodo News (2012-06-18). 作家の赤江瀑さんが死去　「オイディプスの刃」など (in Japanese). 47News. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
2. http://homepage1.nifty.com/naokiaward/kogun/kogun69AB.htm Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)