Japanese literature summary

From the world’s very first novel The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu) to multiple Nobel Prizes in Literature, Japanese writers certainly know how to express things in words.

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Classical poetry, manga, fiction – nothing is excluded from the Japanese literary domain.

From that ground-breaking very first novelist through to modern authors’ progressive and challenging tomes, let’s take a look at 25 of the most popular Japanese writers of all time.

1.

Kyoichi Katayama

As far as authors go, Katayama struggled to get his stories heard.

His first two novels didn’t drum up many sales and it looked like his third novel was going the same way.

With the original title of his third novel Socrates in Love rejected by his editors, Katayama changed it to Crying Out Love, In the Centre of the World.

The heart-wrenching tale revolves around Sakutaro Matsumoto’s memories of a classmate wi