Ukō Washio was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his Akutagawa Prize-winning novel .
Biography Washio was born Hiroshi Washio on April 27, 1892, in Niigata prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Waseda University in 1915. He enjoyed Western literature, and published a translation of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Francesca da Rimini while he was attending university. After university he worked in publishing. In 1935 he won the Naoki Prize for his novel . Washio died on February 9, 1951.
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