堀田善卫

堀田善卫（1918年7月17日 - 1998年9月5日），是一位日本小说家、评论家。他将自己在中国国民党宣传部的经历写了下来并且出版成书。

他毕业于庆应义塾大学法文科。他身处上海期间得知日本投降战败，并据此发表了作品《广场的孤独》（1951年），并于1951年获得芥川龙之介奖。他还以国际视角思考西班牙内战及民族问题。代表作除了《方丈记私记》（1971年）外，还有《来自海鸣的深处》（1960年-1961年）等。

Yoshie Hotta (堀田善衛, Hotta Yoshie; July 17, 1918 – September 5, 1998) was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his political consciousness. His most acclaimed works include Hiroba no kodoku (lit. "Solitude in the Public Square", 1951), which was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, and Kage no bubun (Shadow Pieces, 1952). Hotta has also been associated with the Atomic bomb literature genre.

Biography

A graduate from Keio University, Hotta already published poems and essays in the literary journal Hihyō during his student years. He experienced the end of the Pacific War in Shanghai, where he stayed for two years to write for the Chinese Nationalist Party before returning to Japan in 1947. His early works centered on Japan's recent history, thematising events like the bombing of Hiroshima (in Kage no bubun, 1952, or Shimpan, 1963) or the Nanjing Massacre (in Jikan, 1955), and life in Japan during the early post-war years. Later, he turned his attention also to International relationships and history, attending meetings of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association and writing books about historic figures like Goya, Montaigne and François de La Rochefoucauld.

Selected works

1951: Hiroba no kodoku

1952: Kage no bubun (Shadow Pieces)

1952: Kankan

1952: Rekishi

1955: Jikan

1957: Indo de kangaeta koto

1963: Shimpan (Judgment)

1971: Hōjōki shiki

1974–77: Goya

1991–94: Misheru jōkan no hito

1998: Ra Roshufūkō kōshaku densetsu

Awards

1951: Akutagawa Prize for Hiroba no kōdoku

1971: Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for Hōjōki shiki

1977: Jirō Osaragi Prize for Goya

1977: Lotus Prize for Literature

1994: Asahi Prize

1998: Japan Art Academy Prize for Literature

Adaptations

Hiroba no kodoku was adapted into a film in 1953, written by Katsuhito Inomata and directed by and starring Shin Saburi.

Together with Shin'ichirō Nakamura and Takehiko Fukunaga, Hotta wrote the original story which was later adapted into the kaiju film Mothra, first published in Asahi Shimbun.