Kazuo Hirotsu

Emerging from Tokyo’s Ushigome quarter and educated at Waseda University, Hirotsu launched his literary career with a prize-winning short story at seventeen and quickly became a regular contributor to journals while co-founding the short-lived magazine Kiseki. His early translation of Guy de Maupassant’s Une Vie opened a long-standing role as a critic and translator of European prose, and the 1917… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources