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Place of Birth: Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
About Shun Medoruma
- Shun Medoruma (??? ?, Medoruma Shun, born 10 October 1960) is a Japanese writer along with Oshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan.
- Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpo 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 Shohei literary prizes.
- Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fuon: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.
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