Yoshiyuki Handa

Yoshiyuki Handa (1911–1970) was a Japanese novelist born in Yokohama, who worked for Japanese National Railways while publishing in literary magazines and won the prestigious 9th Akutagawa Prize in 1939 for his work Chicken Uproar (Niwatori Sōdō), after which he quit his job to become a reporter. Post-WWII, he joined the Japanese Communist Party, participated in labor movements, and continued writing novels published in party-affiliated outlets. Notable works include Ground Bee (1942), Coral (1945), Wind Burial (1946), Happy Ticket (1948), JNR Main Line (1956), and Festival of Nature (1964). He died by suicide at age 59. Wikidata, Akutagawa Prize - English