WRITER

Yasutaka Tsutsui

1934 - Today

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Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆, Tsutsui Yasutaka; born September 24, 1934 in Osaka) is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari award, and the 1992 Nihon SF Taisho Award. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasutaka Tsutsui is the 3,249th most popular writer (down from 2,863rd in 2019), the 965th most popular biography from Japan (down from 842nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yasutaka Tsutsui ranks 3,249 out of 7,302Before him are Jien, Abu-l-'Atahiya, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Suzanne Curchod, Gaston Rébuffat, and Eric Ambler. After him are Qian Zhongshu, Tudor Arghezi, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Rutka Laskier, Christopher Hampton, and Robert Fisk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yasutaka Tsutsui ranks 231Before him are Aram Tigran, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Oleg Kalugin, Horst Szymaniak, Ilaria Occhini, and Julio Jiménez. After him are Paco Ibáñez, Alasdair Gray, Zequinha, Uwe Johnson, Rico Rodriguez, and Frank País.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasutaka Tsutsui ranks 965 out of 6,245Before him are Yukio Kasaya (1943), Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), Jien (1155), Keisuke Honda (1986), Akio Toyoda (1956), and Noriaki Kasai (1972). After him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Giant Baba (1938), Genichi Taguchi (1924), Keiko Abe (1937), Takashi Umezawa (1972), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yasutaka Tsutsui ranks 70Before him are Yūko Tsushima (1947), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Fumiko Enchi (1905), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), and Jien (1155). After him are Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Kafū Nagai (1879), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Naoya Shiga (1883), Hiromi Kawakami (1958), and Natsuo Kirino (1951).