Kazuo Ishiguro and Samuel Beckett, were both in which occupation?
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Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.
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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
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David Holt (psychotherapist) David Holt (9 February 1926 – 31 March 2002) was a psychotherapist based in London and then Oxford who trained in the tradition of Analytical psychology developed by Carl Jung. As an analyst he broadened his approach to include theatre (especially William Shakespeare), time, history, politics and economics (Karl Marx), psychosis, metaphysics, alchemy and the relationship between analytical psychology and religion.
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Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII (十八代目 中村 勘三郎 , Jūhachidaime Nakamura Kanzaburō ) , born Noriaki Namino (波野 哲明 , Namino Noriaki , May 30, 1955 – December 5, 2012) , was a Japanese actor active in kabuki, other forms of live theatre, television and commercials. Kanzaburō was a versatile actor whose credits include farce, period pieces, and Shin Kabuki.
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Kaoru Morimoto Kaoru Morimoto (森本 薫 , Morimoto Kaoru , 1912–1946) was a Japanese playwright, director, translator, and actor. He is famous for his critically acclaimed play, "A Woman's Life" ("Onna no isshō"), one of Japan's most frequently staged plays post World War II. Morimoto's work was most popular during the post-war period but his plays are still read and performed today. He was born in Osaka, Japan in 1912 and later moved to Kyoto where he received a degree in English literature from Kyoto University in 1937. Morimoto died in 1946 after a long battle with tuberculosis.
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Juzo Takaoka Juzo Takaoka (高岡 重蔵 , "Takaoka Jūzō" , born January 18, 1921–September 15, 2017) was a Japanese letterpress printer specializing in Western typesetting. He was advisor to the Kazui Press Limited, a letterpress company in Tokyo, Japan, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK.
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Minoru Betsuyaku Minoru Betsuyaku (別役 実 , Betsuyaku Minoru , born 1937) is one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists. He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and has helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd." His works focused a lot of the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.
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Kazuhiro Koizumi Kazuhiro Koizumi (小泉 和裕 , Koizumi Kazuhiro , born 1949) is a Japanese conductor who has had an active international career since the 1970s. He has appeared as a guest conductor throughout Europe and the United States, appearing with such ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is the current principal conductor of both the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held since 2008, and the Century Orchestra Osaka (2003). Since 2006 he has been a current principal guest conductor with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Fukumoto Kazuo Fukumoto Kazuo (福本和夫); (4.July 1894-16.November 1983) was a Japanese Marxist and one of the most important theoretician of the Japanese Communist Party during the 1920s.
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Breath (play) Breath is a notably short stage work by Samuel Beckett. An altered version was first included in Kenneth Tynan's revue "Oh! Calcutta!", at the Eden Theatre in New York City on June 16, 1969. The UK premiere was at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969; this was the first performance of the text as written. The second performance, and the English premiere, was at a benefit held at the Oxford Playhouse on March 8, 1970. “The first accurate publication appeared in "Gambit" 4.16 (1969): 5–9, with a manuscript facsimile.”
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Kazuhisa Ishii Kazuhisa Ishii (石井 一久 "Ishii Kazuhisa") (born September 9, 1973) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows and Saitama Seibu Lions and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.
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Richard Seaver Richard Woodward Seaver (December 31, 1926 – January 6, 2009) was an American translator, editor and publisher. Seaver was instrumental in defying censorship, to bring to light works by authors such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Hubert Selby, Eugène Ionesco, E.M. Cioran, D.H. Lawrence, Jack Kerouac, Robert Coover, Harold Pinter and the Marquis de Sade.
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Kazuaki Tanahashi Kazuaki Tanahashi (棚橋一晃 , c. 1933) is an accomplished Japanese calligrapher, Zen teacher, author and translator of Buddhist texts from Japanese and Chinese to English, most notably works by Dogen (he began his translation of "Shobogenzo" in his twenties). He first met Shunryu Suzuki in 1964, and upon reading Suzuki's book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" he stated, "I could see it's Shobogenzo in a very plain, simple language." He has helped notable Zen teachers author books on Zen Buddhism, such as John Daido Loori. A fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science—Tanahashi is also an environmentalist and peaceworker.
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Kazuya Nakai Kazuya Nakai (中井 和哉 , Nakai Kazuya , born November 25, 1967) is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Kobe, Japan. He is affiliated with Aoni Production. His most notable role is Roronoa Zoro in the anime series "One Piece". Other major voice roles include Toshiro Hijikata from "Gintama", Date Masamune from "Sengoku Basara", Mugen from "Samurai Champloo", and Ultraman Max in "Ultraman Max". He won a Best Supporting Actor award at the 5th Seiyu Awards in 2011 for his roles in "One Piece" and "Gin Tama".
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Richard Bozulich Richard Bozulich (born 1936) is an American author and publisher of go books in English and a college math professor. He co-founded the Ishi Press. He has worked with several Japanese professional players.
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More Pricks Than Kicks More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short prose by Samuel Beckett, first published in 1934. It contains extracts from his earlier novel, "Dream of Fair to Middling Women" (for which he was unable to find a publisher), as well as other short stories.
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Kan Kikuchi Hiroshi Kikuchi (菊池 寛 , Kikuchi Hiroshi , December 26, 1888 – March 6, 1948) , known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays "Madame Pearl" and "Father Returns", but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. He was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). He is known to have been an avid player of Mahjong.
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The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989 The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989 is a collection which includes all of Samuel Beckett's works written in prose, with the exception of his novels, novellas, and "More Pricks Than Kicks" which is considered "as much a novel as a collection of stories". The book was edited by S. E. Gontarski and published by Grove Press in 1995.
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An Artist of the Floating World An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel also deals with the role of people in a rapidly changing environment.
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Samuel Todes Samuel Todes (June 27, 1927 – October 21, 1994) was an American philosopher who made notable contributions to existentialism, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind.
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Kazusuke Ogawa Kazusuke Ogawa (小川和佑 , Ogawa Kazusuke , 29 April 1930 – 20 September 2014) was a Japanese literary critic.
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Albert Ando Albert K. Ando (アルバート安藤 ( 15 November 1929 – 19 September 2002) ) was a Japanese-born economist.