Education
Born in Okayama City, Iijima graduated from the French Literature Department of Tokyo University.
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Koichi Iijima
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Career
While in university he established together with, among others, Isamu Kurita the magazine Cahier. In 1956, he and Makoto Ōoka were among the founders of the Surrealism Research Society. In 1953, he published his first collection of poems, Tanin no sora ("Another person"s sky").
He also worked as a professor at Meiji University and Kokugakuin University.
He translated or wrote about Henri Barbusse, Antonin Artaud, Brassai, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Henry Miller, Marcel Aymé, Guillaume Apollinaire, et cetera He is the father of architecture critic Yōichi Iijima.
He died on October 14, 2013, at a Tokyo hospital of malabsorption syndrome.
Achievements
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Takami June Award for ゴヤのファースト・ネームは ("Goya no first name wa") (1974) Tōson kinen rekitei Award for 飯島耕一詩集 ("Iijima Kōichi shishũ") (1978) Gendai shijin Award for 夜を夢想する小太陽の独言 ("Yoru wo musōsuru shotaiyō no dokugen") (1983) Bunkamura Prix des Deux Magots for 暗殺百美人 (Ansatsu hyaku bijin"") (1996) Yomiuri Prize for アメリカ ("Amerika") (2005) Nihon gendai ishika bungakukan Award (2005).
Membership
He was a member of the Japan Art Academy. In 2008, he was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy.
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Nationality
Japan
Awards
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Takami Jun Award for ゴヤのファースト・ネームは ("Goya no first name wa") (1974) Tōson kinen rekitei Award for 飯島耕一詩集 ("Iijima Kōichi shishũ") (1978) Gendai shijin Award for 夜を夢想する小太陽の独言 ("Yoru wo musōsuru shotaiyō no dokugen") (1983) Bunkamura Prix des Deux Magots for 暗殺百美人 (Ansatsu hyaku bijin"") (1996) Yomiuri Prize for アメリカ ("Amerika") (2005) Nihon gendai ishika bungakukan Award (2005)Takami Jun Award for ゴヤのファースト・ネームは ("Goya no first name wa") (1974) Tōson kinen rekitei Award for 飯島耕一詩集 ("Iijima Kōichi shishũ") (1978) Gendai shijin Award for 夜を夢想する小太陽の独言 ("Yoru wo musōsuru shotaiyō no dokugen") (1983) Bunkamura Prix des Deux Magots for 暗殺百美人 (Ansatsu hyaku bijin"") (1996) Yomiuri Prize for アメリカ ("Amerika") (2005) Nihon gendai ishika bungakukan Award (2005)