Baku Akae

Baku Akae (赤江 瀑, Akae Baku, April 22, 1933 – June 8, 2012) was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi.[1]

His novel Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃, Oedipus' Sword) won the 1st Kadokawa Novel Award in 1974.[2]

In 1984, his novels Kaikyou (海峡 Straits) and Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills) won the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature.[2]

Selection of works
  • Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃 Oedipus' Sword). 1974.
  • Kaikyou (海峡 Straits). 1984.
  • Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills). 1984. Translated by Nancy H Ross, Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Volume 3: Tales of the Metropolis, Kurodahan Press, 2009.
  • Aruman no dorei (アルマンの奴隷 Allemagne's Slaves). 1990.
  • Gijokoku no mori no nagame (戯場国の森の眺め View of the Woods in the Playland) . 1996.
  • Koso no fune (香草の船 The Grass Boat). 1990.

See also

References
  1. Kyodo News (2012-06-18). 作家の赤江瀑さんが死去　「オイディプスの刃」など (in Japanese). 47News. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  2. http://homepage1.nifty.com/naokiaward/kogun/kogun69AB.htm Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
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