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Kan Kikuchi
Native name
菊池 寛
BornHiroshi Kikuchi
(1888-12-26)December 26, 1888
Takamatsu, Kagawa
DiedMarch 6, 1948(1948-03-06) (aged 59)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityJapanese

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 was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). He is known to have been an avid player of Mahjong.

Selected work

Kan Kikuchi's published writings encompass 512 works in 683 publications in 7 languages and 2,341 library holdings.[1]

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ WorldCat Identities: 菊池寬 1888-1948

References

  • Asai Kiyoshi. (1994). Kikuchi Kan (菊池寬) Tokyo: Shinchōsha. 10-ISBN 4106206439/13-ISBN 9784106206436; OCLC 31486196

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