WRITER

Kan Kikuchi

1888 - 1948

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Hiroshi Kikuchi (菊池 寛, Kikuchi Hiroshi; December 26, 1888 – March 6, 1948), also known as Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author and publisher. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays Madame Pearl and Father Returns, but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. He was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kan Kikuchi is the 3,379th most popular writer (down from 3,254th in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 935th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kan Kikuchi ranks 3,379 out of 7,302. Before him are William Hope Hodgson, Mikhail Koltsov, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Aino Kallas, Henry Kuttner, and Valerius Antias. After him are Ewald Christian von Kleist, Yury Olesha, Alexander Sumarokov, Yury Vlasov, Jens Baggesen, and Caspar Barlaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Kan Kikuchi ranks 137. Before him are Nereu Ramos, Harukichi Hyakutake, Antonio Ascari, Irving Cummings, Pavel Peter Gojdič, and Louis J. Mordell. After him are Toyohiko Kagawa, Gazanfar Musabekov, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Lotte Lehmann, Sydney Chapman, and Vahram Papazian. Among people deceased in 1948, Kan Kikuchi ranks 107. Before him are Giulio Gaudini, Charles Evans Hughes, Vicente Huidobro, Karl Valentin, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, and Monteiro Lobato. After him are Adolf Kainz, Richard Tauber, Kristine Bonnevie, Carole Landis, Lajos Bíró, and Edgar Leonard.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kan Kikuchi ranks 992 out of 6,245. Before him are Kafū Nagai (1879), Naomi Osaka (1997), Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956), Yuko Shimizu (1946), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), and Koichi Tohei (1920). After him are Magdalene of Nagasaki (1611), Mikio Sato (1928), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Yoshinori Shigematsu (1930), Masabumi Hosono (1870), and Naoya Shiga (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kan Kikuchi ranks 73. Before him are Fumiko Enchi (1905), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Jien (1155), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), and Kafū Nagai (1879). After him are Naoya Shiga (1883), Hiromi Kawakami (1958), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Ai Yazawa (1967), Futabatei Shimei (1864), and Tōson Shimazaki (1872).

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