WRITER

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-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Osamu Dazai has received more than 3,560,203 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Osamu Dazai is the 179th most popular writer (up from 197th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Japan and the 6th most popular Japanese Writer.

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

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  • 77.15

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Osamu Dazai ranks 179 out of 7,302Before him are François-René de Chateaubriand, Wisława Szymborska, Taras Shevchenko, Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, and J. D. Salinger. After him are André Breton, Nizami Ganjavi, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Constantine VII, and Tove Jansson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Osamu Dazai ranks 5Before him are Stepan Bandera, Nicholas Winton, Eugène Ionesco, and Francis Bacon. After him are Simone Weil, Juliana of the Netherlands, Peter Drucker, Victor Borge, U Thant, Kwame Nkrumah, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. Among people deceased in 1948, Osamu Dazai ranks 4Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Sergei Eisenstein, and Mileva Marić. After him are Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Hideki Tojo, Walther von Brauchitsch, Edgar de Wahl, Antonin Artaud, and Folke Bernadotte.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Osamu Dazai ranks 19 out of 6,245Before him are Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Emperor Taishō (1879), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Yoko Ono (1933), and Yasunari Kawabata (1899). After him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Shinzō Abe (1954), Koji Tanaka (1955), Osamu Tezuka (1928), and Hideki Tojo (1884).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Osamu Dazai ranks 6Before him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Yasunari Kawabata (1899). After him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Kōbō Abe (1924).