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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

1892 - 1927

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke; Japanese pronunciation: [ɾʲɯː.no.sɯ̥.ke], 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is the 307th most popular writer (down from 302nd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Japan and the 9th most popular Japanese Writer.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is most famous for his short story “The Nose,” which is about a man who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 307 out of 7,302. Before him are Guillaume de Machaut, Arthur Miller, Shams Tabrizi, Czesław Miłosz, Alberto Moravia, and Chrétien de Troyes. After him are Robert Musil, Claudius Aelianus, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, and Herman Melville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 14. Before him are Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Manfred von Richthofen, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart. After him are Alexander Alekhine, Amanullah Khan, Sepp Dietrich, Arthur Compton, Arthur Honegger, and Theodor Eicke. Among people deceased in 1927, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 6. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, Isadora Duncan, Carlota of Mexico, Ferdinand I of Romania, and Willem Einthoven. After him are Juan Gris, Albrecht Kossel, Gaston Leroux, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Hugo Ball, and Andranik.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 30 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Osamu Dazai (1909), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), and Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945). After him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), and Isao Takahata (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 9. Before him are Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), and Kenzaburō Ōe (1935). After him are Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Sei Shōnagon (966), Kōbō Abe (1924), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), and Zeami Motokiyo (1363).

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