Background
Masahito Ara was born in 1913.
Masahito Ara was born in 1913.
After the Pacific War, he started with Ken Hirano, Motoichi Sasaki and Hideo Odagiri the magazine Kindai Bungaku (Modern Literature).
In 1946 Ara founded with Hideo Odagiri and Ken Hirano the magazine Kindai bungaku ("Modern Literature’’).
A connoisseur of English literature, Ara translates works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Emily Brontë and composes essays on T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. He taught literature at Hōsei University.