Yoshimi Usui

Yoshimi Usui (臼井 吉見, Usui Yoshimi; June 17, 1905 – July 12, 1987) was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.

Yoshimi Usui

Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino (安曇野).^[1]

In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a lawsuit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family.^[2]

Selected works

• Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu (方丈記. 徒然草. 一言 芳談集), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970.
• Hitotsu no kisetsu, 1975.
• Butai no ue de, 1976.
• Genjitsu no gyoshi, Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976.
• Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū, 15 volumes, 1976–1977.
• Jikō no tenmatsu (事故のてんまつ), 1977.
• Jibun o tsukuru (自分 を つくる), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1979.
• Shohan (初版), Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1985.