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Shuntarō Tanikawa

Japanese poet and translator (1931–2024)

Shuntarō Tanikawa
Tanikawa in 2015
Born	(1931-12-15)December 15, 1931 Suginami, Japan^{[citation needed]}
Died	November 13, 2024(2024-11-13) (aged 92)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	Poet, translator
Notable work	Two Billion Light Years of Solitude (1952)
Spouse	Eriko Kishida (m. 1954; div. 1955) Tomoko Okubo (m. 1957; div. 1989) Yōko Sano (m. 1990; div. 1996)
Children	Kensaku Tanikawa [ja] Shino Tanikawa
Father	Tetsuzō Tanikawa

Shuntarō Tanikawa (谷川俊太郎, Tanikawa Shuntarō, December 15, 1931 – November 13, 2024)^[1] was a Japanese poet and translator.^[2] He was considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad.^[3] The English translation of his poetry volume Floating the River in

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Biography

Shuntarō Tanikawa was born in Tokyo in 1931 as the only son of a prominent philosopher Tetsuzō Tanikawa. He started writing poetry at the age 17 and his first poems were published in a prestigious literary magazine in 1950. His debut collection Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude in 1952 startled his peer poets and literary critics as something they had never seen before and established itself as the new milestone for the post WWII Japanese poetics.
Shuntarō has been awarded with the Yomiuri Literary Prize in 1983, the Modern Poetry Hanatsubaki Prize in 1985, Takashi Saida Prize in 1987, Shogakukan Literary Prize in 1988, the Yutaka Maruyama Memorial Modern Poetry Prize in 1991, the First Sakutaro Hagiwara Award in 1993, the Asahi Prize in 1996, Sasakawa Foundation Prize in 1998, ENEOS Children Culture Prize in 2000, Ding Jun Literary Prize in China in 2005, Mainichi Art Prize in 2006, Mongolian Writers Union Prize in 2008, the First Nobuo Ayukawa Prize in 2010, Zhongkun International Poetry Prize in 2011, the Tatsuji Miyoshi Prize in

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Shuntaro Tanikawa

Biography

Shuntaro Tanikawa has been a phenomenon in Japan since the publication of his first collection, Alone in Two Billion Light Years, in 1952. In the book’s prefatory poem, Tanikawa’s mentor, Tatsuji Miyoshi, introduced him as a young man who “has come from a distant land, unexpected [ . . . ] bearing the weight of being alone”. Indeed, he seemed to be totally unencumbered by Japan’s post-World War Two psyche. Over the past 50 years, many different editions of this first collection have appeared; Alone in Two Billion Light Yearshas remained a favourite among readers. In 2008, a Japanese/English pocket edition was published in Tokyo, attracting a new wave of young readers.

Born in 1931, Tanikawa was a middle-school student at the end of the war. He was just young enough to have been spared the pain and despair experienced by those poets who faced death, loss and devastation during the war. And yet his thoughts were never too far away from death, which was colourlessly woven into his worldview, lending his work philosophic