Education
Kenyon College; Osaka University. Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
庄野 潤三
Kenyon College; Osaka University. Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World World War World War II Shōno lived for one year in the United States in the late 1950s on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at Kenyon College in Ohio. He later published a book, Gambia Taizaiki about his experiences at Kenyon. He died of natural causes at his home in Kawasaki on September 21, 2009.
Shōno was 88.
Shōno was made a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1978.