Shigeru Tonomura

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Shigeru Tonomura (外村 繁, Tonomura Shigeru, December 23, 1902 – July 28, 1961) was a Japanese author of

In 1933, Tonomura handed over control of the business to his brother and began to write seriously. He received the 1956 Noma Literary Prize for Ikada (筏) and the 1960 Yomiuri Prize for Miotsukushi (澪標). Tonomura was good friends with Motojirō Kajii.

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• Yoshikazu Kataoka, Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: 1956-1970, Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, University of Tokyo Press, 1972, pages 252-254.
• Donald Keene, Dawn to the West: Japanese literature of the modern era, fiction, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, 2nd edition, 1998, page 532.
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• Dharma world, Kosei Pub. Co., volume 14-15, 1987.