Sakyo Komatsu
| Sakyo Komatsu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Minoru Komatsu January 28, 1931 Osaka, Japan |
| Died | July 26, 2011 (aged 80) Minoh, Osaka, Japan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Subject | Futurology |
| Notable works | Japan Sinks |
| Notable awards | 1985 Nihon SF Taisho Award |
Sakyo Komatsu (小松 左京 Komatsu Sakyō?, January 28, 1931 – July 26, 2011) was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.
Born Minoru "Sakyo" Komatsu in Osaka, he was a graduate of Kyoto University where he studied Italian literature. After graduating, he worked at various jobs, including as a magazine reporter and a writer for stand-up comedy acts.
Komatsu's writing career began in the 1960s. Reading Kōbō Abe and Italian classics made Komatsu feel modern literature and science fiction are the same.
In 1961, he submitted for the 1st Scientific-fiction Contest of Hayakawa's SF Magazine: "Peace on Earth" was a short story in which World War II does not end in 1945 and a young man prepares to defend Japan against the Allied invasion. Komatsu received an honourable mention and 5000 yen.
He won the same contest the following year with the story, "Memoirs of an Eccentric Time Traveller". His first novel, The Japanese Apache, was published two years later and sold 50,000 copies.
In the West he is best known for the novels Japan Sinks (1973) and Sayonara Jupiter (1982). Both were adapted to film, Tidal Wave (1973) and Bye Bye Jupiter (1984). The story "The Savage Mouth" was translated by Judith Merril and has been anthologized.
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