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Osamu Dazai

1909 - 1948

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Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji; 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoevsky. His last book, No Longer Human, is his most popular work outside of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osamu Dazai is the 250th most popular writer (down from 179th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Japan (down from 19th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Writer.

Osamu Dazai is most famous for his novel "No Longer Human."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Osamu Dazai ranks 250 out of 7,302. Before him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, W. H. Auden, Gerhart Hauptmann, C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. After him are Grazia Deledda, Henrik Pontoppidan, Dario Fo, Johanna Spyri, Joseph Heller, and Nikos Kazantzakis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Osamu Dazai ranks 6. Before him are Stepan Bandera, Eugène Ionesco, Nicholas Winton, Juliana of the Netherlands, and Simone Weil. After him are James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, and Andrei Gromyko. Among people deceased in 1948, Osamu Dazai ranks 10. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Hideki Tojo, Mileva Marić, Edvard Beneš, and Franz Lehár. After him are Edith Roosevelt, Walther von Brauchitsch, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Antonin Artaud, Andrei Zhdanov, and Hugo Boss.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Osamu Dazai ranks 26 out of 6,245. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Yoko Ono (1933), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Emperor Jimmu (-711), and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894). After him are Lee Myung-bak (1941), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kanō Jigorō (1860), and Yayoi Kusama (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Osamu Dazai ranks 7. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), and Murasaki Shikibu (973). After him are Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Sei Shōnagon (966), and Kōbō Abe (1924).

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