Choose another writer in this calendar: by birthday from the
calendar. ||Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Pseudonym for Hiraoka
Kimitake| Prolific writer, who is considered by many critics as
the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century.
Mishima's works include 40 novels, poetry, essays, and modern
Kabuki and Noh dramas. He was three times nominated for the
Nobel Prize for literature. Among his masterpieces is The Temple
of the Golden Pavilion (1956). The tetralogy The Sea of
Fertility (1965-70) is regarded by many as Mishima's most
lasting achievement. As a writer Mishima drew inspiration from
pre-modern literature, both Japanese and Western. Mishima ended
his brilliant literary career by suicide in 1970. "How oddly
situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-
eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of
memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the
present has left him not a single vivid impression. And
therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more