Hiroichiro Maeda

Japanese: 前田河広一郎 - まえだこうひろいちろう

Born: November 13, 1888 in Sendai, Miyagi
[Died] December 4, 1957. Tokyo novelist. He dropped out of middle school and moved to Tokyo in 1905 to study under Tokutomi Roka. He went to the United States in 1907, where he worked and wrote novels and critiques in his spare time. He returned to Japan in 1920. He worked as an editor for the magazine Chugai, and published the masterpiece of early proletarian literature, Third Class Passenger (1921), which caused a sensation in the literary world. In 1923, he became a member of the literary magazine Tane Maku Hito (The Sower), and subsequently published Red Carriage (1923) and Pan (1923). The following year, in 1924, he became a member of the Bungei Sensen (Bungei Sensen) and, while writing critiques, published the long novel Daibōfuu Jidai (The Great Stormy Age) (1924), becoming a representative writer of early proletarian literature. His other works include the collection of essays Ten Years (1930) and the biographical work Rokaden (1938).

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Japanese:

[生]1888.11.13. 宮城，仙台
[没]1957.12.4. 東京
小説家。中学校を中退，1905年上京して徳冨蘆花に師事。1907年アメリカ合衆国に渡り，労働生活を送りながら，合間に小説や評論を書いた。1920年に帰国。雑誌『中外』の編集に携わり，同誌に初期プロレタリア文学の傑作『三等船客』（1921）を発表，文壇で反響を呼んだ。1923年に文芸雑誌『種蒔く人』の同人となり，以後『赤い馬車』（1923），『麺麭（パン）』（1923）を発表。翌 1924年『文芸戦線』同人となり，評論を書く一方で長編『大暴風雨時代』（1924）を発表，初期プロレタリア文学の代表作家となった。ほかに，評論集『十年間』（1930），伝記文学『蘆花伝』（1938）などがある。

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