WRITER

Tomoji Abe

1903 - 1973

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Tomoji Abe (阿部 知二, Abe Tomoji, 26 June 1903 – 23 April 1973) was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature. This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on esthetic values and emotional states of mind (such as appear in the works of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa); it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan (Japanese modernist writers included Haruo Satō, Sei Ito, Tatsuo Hori, Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomoji Abe has received more than 27,216 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tomoji Abe is the 5,950th most popular writer, the 1,544th most popular biography from Japan and the 110th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Notable Works

Abe Tomoji
Hyumanizumu to bungaku
Fuyu no yado
Kōfuku
Abe Tomoji, Serizawa Kōjirō
Pekin

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tomoji Abe ranks 5,950 out of 7,302Before him are Claude Esteban, J. Michael Straczynski, Susan Cooper, Arvo Valton, Álvaro Pombo, and Nísia Floresta. After him are György Bessenyei, Leon Kruczkowski, Jean-Denis Bredin, Árpád Tóth, Giannina Braschi, and Josipina Turnograjska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Tomoji Abe ranks 328Before him are Alfredo Copello, Roy Acuff, Fernand Jourdant, Raymond Flacher, Una Merkel, and Daphne Akhurst. After him are Béla Szepes, Walter Weiler, Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Koto Matsudaira, Gejus van der Meulen, and Jan van Diepenbeek. Among people deceased in 1973, Tomoji Abe ranks 260Before him are Michael Dunn, Nasif Estéfano, Kurt Thomas, William Inge, C. H. Dodd, and Ken Maynard. After him are Hellmuth Kneser, Piero Drogo, Hans Haas, Manuel Rojas, Henrique da Silveira, and James Wilson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomoji Abe ranks 1,544 out of 6,245Before him are Chiaki Kuriyama (1984), Naoki Sakai (1975), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), Hirokazu Tanaka (1957), Yoshiharu Horii (1953), and Tetsuya Nomura (1970). After him are Eizo Kenmotsu (1948), Kenjiro Shinozuka (1948), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Musashi Mizushima (1964), Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975), and Masahiro Ando (1972).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Tomoji Abe ranks 110Before him are Takashi Tezuka (1960), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), Aya Kitō (1962), Michio Mado (1909), Marie Kondo (1984), and Gen Urobuchi (1972). After him are Reki Kawahara (1974), Mieko Kawakami (1976), Jun Maeda (1975), Reiko Yoshida (1967), Phyllis A. Whitney (1903), and Sayaka Murata (1979).