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BIOGRAPHY
Osamu Dazai, novelist, was born in Kanagi, Japan. His original name was Tsushima Shuji. He was the sixth of eleven children of a wealthy landowner. He was educated at the University of Tokyo where he studied French literature. Dazai attempted suicide several times in his life, and he finally succeeded in 1948 in a double suicide with his lover.
Dazai published his first collection of short stories, BANNEN (THE TWILIGHT YEARS), when he was thirty. One of his best known works is SHAYO (THE SETTING SUN) which was published in 1947.
CHRONOLOGY
1909 He was born in Kanagi, Japan. (June 19)
1935 DOKE NO HANA
1937 NIJUSSEIKI KISHU; KYOKO NO HOKO
1939 AI TO BI NI TSUITE; JOSEITO; BANNEN (THE TWILIGHT YEARS); He married Ishihara Michiko.
1940 ONNA NO KETTO
1941 SHIN HAMURETTO
1942 SEIGI TO BISHO
1943 UDAIJIN SANETOMO
1944 TSUGARU
1945 OTOGI ZOZHI (FAIRY TALES); SEKIBETSU; SHIN SHOKOKUBANASHI
1946 PANDORA NO HAKO; FUYU NOHANABI
1947 KYOSHIN NO KAMI; SHAYO (SETTING THE SUN); BIYON NO TSUMA; TOKATONTON
1948 NYOZE GABUN; NINGEN SHIKKAKU (NO LONGER HUMAN); GOODBYE; He died by suicide in Tokyo, Japan. (June 13)
1949 JINUSHI ICHIDAI - MIHAPPYO SAKUHIN SHU
1952 DAZAI OSAMU ZENSHU, 10 vols.
1956 DAZAI OSAMU ZENSHU, 12 vols.
1989 CRACKLING MOUNTAIN AND OTHER STORIES
1991 SELF-PORTRAITS: TALES FROM THE LIFE OF JAPAN'S GREAT DECADENT ROMANTIC
1993 BLUE BAMBOO: TALES OF FANTASY AND ROMANCE
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