Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Shun Medoruma 目取真俊 (born 1960) is, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story A Drop of Water (Suiteki). (Also translated as \"Droplets\" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa.) In 2000 his short story \"Mabuigumi\" (\"Spirit Stuffing,\" 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes. Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fūon:The Crying Wind, which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year. Central themes in Medoruma's literary works are the psychological after-effects of the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese occupation and suppression of Okinawan culture and language, as well as the presence of American soldiers on the islands.He also writes social commentary and criticism about Okinawa's current and historical relationship with Japan and the United States and emerged as an important public intellectual in Okinawa and Japan through his writing after he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997. His commentary and criticism has been published in local Okinawan newspapers, leading national journals, and his weblog, \"Uminari no shima kara\"."@en }
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- Shun_Medoruma abstract "Shun Medoruma 目取真俊 (born 1960) is, along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story A Drop of Water (Suiteki). (Also translated as \"Droplets\" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa.) In 2000 his short story \"Mabuigumi\" (\"Spirit Stuffing,\" 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes. Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fūon:The Crying Wind, which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year. Central themes in Medoruma's literary works are the psychological after-effects of the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese occupation and suppression of Okinawan culture and language, as well as the presence of American soldiers on the islands.He also writes social commentary and criticism about Okinawa's current and historical relationship with Japan and the United States and emerged as an important public intellectual in Okinawa and Japan through his writing after he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997. His commentary and criticism has been published in local Okinawan newspapers, leading national journals, and his weblog, \"Uminari no shima kara\".".