Novelist Junichi Watanabe dies at 80

Source: Agencies | May 5, 2014, Monday |

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NOVELIST Junichi Watanabe, known for love stories depicting extramarital affairs, died of prostate cancer Wednesday at his home in Tokyo, his family said today, as Kyodo News reported. He was 80, the report said.

The orthopedist-turned-writer, a native of Hokkaido, won the Naoki Prize for popular literature in 1970 for his novel "Hikari to Kage."

Since the 1980s, Watanabe authored a number of love stories and his 1997 novel "Shitsurakuen" (Paradise Lost), which portrays a middle-aged couple in an extramarital affair, became a bestseller of more than 2.5 million copies, according to the report.

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Novelist Junichi Watanabe dies at 80

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