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Birth Name:

Shun Medoruma

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Oct 06, 1960

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Nakijin, Okinawa, Japan

Age:

64

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

12°

Lib

51'

About Shun Medoruma

Shun Medoruma (目取真 俊, Medoruma Shun, born 10 October 1960) is a Japanese writer, who, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, is one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpō Short Story Prize in 1983 for "Taiwan Woman: Record of a Fish Shoal" ("Gyogunki"), translated by Shi-Lin Loh in Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, and the New Okinawan Literature Prize in 1986 for "Walking the Street Named Peace Boulevard" ("Heiwa doori to nazukerareta machi o aruite"). He was awarded the 27th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and the 117th Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story "A Drop of Water" ("Suiteki"). (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa.) In 2000 his short story "Mabuigumi" ("Spirit Stuffing," 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes. Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fūon:The Crying Wind, which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year. His critically acclaimed novel In the Woods of Memory (Me no oku no mori, 2009, Tr. Takuma Sminkey, 2017) is the first full-length novel by an Okinawan writer to be translated and published in English.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Shun Medoruma at J'Lit Books from Japan (in English)

• Synopsis of Pushing Back the Soul (Mabuigumi) at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) (in English)

• Medoruma Shun's blog 海なりの島から at Uminari no shima kara (in Japanese)

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Shun Medoruma: Sun 12 Libra, Moon 27 Aries, Mercury 5 Scorpio, Venus 10 Scorpio, Mars 7 Cancer, Jupiter 26 Sagittarius, Saturn 12 Capricorn, Uranus 24 Leo, Neptune 7 Scorpio, Pluto 7 Virgo, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Mercury Conjunct Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Sun Square Saturn, Mercury Trine Mars, Mercury Sextile Pluto, Venus Trine Mars, Venus Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Sextile Saturn, Venus Conjunct Neptune, Venus Sextile Pluto, Mars Opposition Saturn, Mars Semi Square Uranus, Mars Trine Neptune, Mars Sextile Pluto, Jupiter Trine Uranus, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Shun Medoruma: Living people, October 6 births, 1960 births, Japanese writers, Winners of the Akutagawa Prize