Background
Noma was born in Kōbe to a devout Buddhist family, and took up literature in 1932 after meeting the poet Takeuchi Shizuo.
野間 宏
Noma was born in Kōbe to a devout Buddhist family, and took up literature in 1932 after meeting the poet Takeuchi Shizuo.
In 1935 he enrolled at Kyoto University, where he studied French literature with a particular interest in French Symbolist poetry.
He also became active in Marxist student movements. Noma"s first long novel, Shinku chitai (真空地帯, Zone of Emptiness), was published in 1952. lieutenant has been called one of the best war novels produced after World World War World War II