Akio Miyazawa | |
Birth Date: | 1956 12, df=y |
Birth Place: | Kakegawa, Japan |
Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Occupation: | Playwright Writer |
Education: | Tama Art University |
Akio Miyazawa (ja|宮沢 章夫 Miyazawa Akio; 9 December 1956 – 12 September 2022) was a Japanese playwright, writer, and academic.[1]
Miyazawa studied at Tama Art University, which he left prematurely to co-found the group alongside,,, Naoto Takenaka, and .[2]
In 1990, Miyazawa founded the theatre company . His book, Search Engine System Crash, earned him the Akutagawa Prize and the Mishima Yukio Prize. In 1993, he received the Kishida Prize for Drama for his play, Hinemi. In 2005, he was a visiting professor at Waseda University.[3]
Miyazawa died of heart failure in Tokyo on 12 September 2022, at the age of 65.[4]