Kobo Abe

Kobo Abe was born on 7 March 1924 in Tokyo and grew up in Mukden, in Manchuria, where his father was a doctor. Admitted in 1943 to the faculty of medicine of the Imperial University of Tokyo, he graduated in 1948 without ever practising. A member of the Communist Party in the early fifties, he broke away from it after the Soviet intervention in Hungary. In 1973 he founded his own troupe, the Abe Kōbō Studio, for which he wrote and directed his plays, and he died in Tokyo on 22 January 1993.

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• NovelThe Woman in the Dunes砂の女Kobo Abe · 1962Literature