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]

  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. ^ a b http://homepage1.nifty.com/naokiaward/kogun/kogun69AB.htm Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)