Taichi Yamada is the author of
“In Search
of a Distant Voice” and the spooky “Strangers”.
He was born in Tokyo in 1934. Taichi Yamada graduated from Waseda University in
1958, where he read Japanese Language and Literature in the Department of
Education. This was also the year that he joined the Shochiku Film Company,
where he worked in the Ofuna Studio Production Department. He left Shochiku in
1965, when he also wrote the well-known TV programme “Fuzoroino Ringotachi”
(“Apple of Different Sizes”). Taichoi Yamada won the New Talent Award for TV
drama with “Sorezore no Aki” (“Pieces of Autumn”). In 1983, he won the
Education Minister’s Award for “Nagaraeba” (“When We Are Old”). The following
year, Taichi Yamada won the Mukoda Kuniko Prize for “Nihon no Omokage” (“Out of
the East”), and in 1985 the Kikuchi Kan Prize. “Strangers” won the Yamamoto
Shugoro Prize in 1987, and was made into a film. Some of Taichi Yamada’s other
novels are: “Mienai Kurayami” (“Secret Darkness”), “Koi no Shisei de”
(“Attitudes of Love”), and “Minareta Machi ni Kaze ga Fuku” (“New Breeze in an
Old Town”).
Yamada Taichi – an excellent
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