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Hitoshi Igarashi

1947 - 1991

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Hitoshi Igarashi (五十嵐 一, Igarashi Hitoshi; 10 June 1947 – 11 July 1991) was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. He was murdered in the wake of fatwas issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran – who, by the time of Igarashi's murder, had died – calling for the death of the book's author and "those involved in its publication." His murder remains unsolved. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hitoshi Igarashi is the 3,184th most popular writer (down from 2,830th in 2019), the 950th most popular biography from Japan (down from 836th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 3,184 out of 7,302. Before him are Léon Daudet, Tomas Venclova, Alfred Andersch, Robert Anderson, Marianne Fredriksson, and Vicente Huidobro. After him are Giovanni della Casa, Theodor Kallifatides, Bâkî, Panteleimon Kulish, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, and Hamnet Shakespeare.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 327. Before him are Sally Oldfield, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Regina Duarte, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mick Fleetwood, and Minnie Riperton. After him are Frédéric Mitterrand, Haruomi Hosono, Michael McKean, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Riccardo Fogli, and Takeshi Urata. Among people deceased in 1991, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 112. Before him are Rufino Tamayo, Étienne Decroux, Abderrahmane Farès, Miodrag Bulatović, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, and Metin Oktay. After him are Claude Cahen, Pietro Ferraris, Louis Seigner, Northrop Frye, Helmut Walcha, and Antoine Berman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 950 out of 6,245. Before him are Mitsuo Watanabe (1953), Gyoji Matsumoto (1934), Kazuo Saito (1951), Shunsuke Nakamura (1978), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), and Yoshitomo Nara (1959). After him are Hide (1964), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Nakayama Yoshiko (1836), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), and Oku Yasukata (1847).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 68. Before him are George Ohsawa (1893), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Yūko Tsushima (1947), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), and Fumiko Enchi (1905). After him are Jien (1155), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Kafū Nagai (1879), Kan Kikuchi (1888), and Naoya Shiga (1883).

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