Information AboutEdogawa Rampo |
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Rampo Edogawa (江戸川 乱歩 ''Edogawa Ranpo''), born '''Tarō Hirai''' (平井 太郎 ''Hirai Tarō'', October 21 , 1894 - July 28 , 1965 ) was a Japanese Author and Critic . He wrote many works of Detective Fiction . Kogoro Akechi was the primary detective of these novels. Rampo was a great admirer of western Mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe . The pseudonym "Edogawa Rampo" is actually a Japanese rendering of Poe's name. Other authors who were special influences on him were Maurice Leblanc and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Tarō Hirai was born in Mie Prefecture in 1894. He grew up in Nagoya and studied economics at Waseda University starting in 1912. After graduating in 1916 he worked a series of odd jobs, including newspaper editing and selling Soba Noodles as a street vendor. In 1923 he wrote his first mystery story, " The Two-Sen Copper Coin ." (Nisen Dõka, 二銭銅貨). The story was soon published under the nom de plume "Edogawa Rampo" by the magaizine " Shin Seinen ," which had also published stories by Edgar Allan Poe , Arthur Conan Doyle , and GK Chesterton . Although there is a history of crime literature in Japan, this is generally acknowledged to be the first original modern-style Japanese Mystery story. He later went on to found and head the Japan Mystery Writers' Club . Rampo could understand spoken English, but could not speak or read well. He and his translator, James B. Harris, collaborated for five years on the first English translation of some of his stories. THEMATIC ELEMENTS
MAJOR WORKS "Kogoro Akechi" stories Others
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