Tomoya Tsuruta

Tomoya Tsuruta (1902-1988) was a Japanese novelist and agricultural leader born in Kokura (now Kitakyūshū), Fukuoka Prefecture. He debuted in proletarian literature, winning the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1936 for his epic novel Koshamain-ki, depicting an Ainu chieftain's uprising against Japanese settlers in 15th-century Hokkaido, and later shifted to rural Hokkaido-themed fiction and peasant literature amid wartime pressures. German Wikidata