Osamu Dazai

Tsushima Shūji, known as Osamu Dazai, was born on 19 June 1909 in Kanagi, in Aomori Prefecture, into a wealthy landowning family. Enrolled in 1930 in French literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, he obtained no degree there, and owed his first publications to the support of the writer Ibuse Masuji, whose pupil he was. His youth was marked by several suicide attempts. His postwar books, increasingly despairing, led to his being ranked among the so-called decadent writers. He drowned in the Tamagawa aqueduct, in Tokyo, on 13 June 1948.

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• NovelThe Setting Sun斜陽Osamu Dazai · 1947LiteraturePublic domain