Minoru Betsuyaku

Minoru Betsuyaku (別役 実, Betsuyaku Minoru, 1937 – March 3, 2020) was one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists, associated with the Angura ("underground") theater movement in Japan. He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd."[1] His works focused on the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.[2]

  1. ^ Betsuyaku, Minoru (October 16, 2007). "The Unending Quest of Minoru Betsuyaku, the Playwright Who Has Laid the Foundation of Japanese Drama of the Absurd". Performing Arts Network Japan. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  2. ^ Goodman, David (1986). After Apocalypse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231062268.