Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was a prolific Japanese author born in 1925.

He began his writing career in 1944 and quickly established himself as a major literary figure with "Confessions of a Mask" in 1949.

Mishima wrote novels, short stories, and plays throughout his life, with his masterpiece being the Sea of Fertility tetralogy.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and gained international recognition.

Mishima's life was marked by a fascination with traditional Japanese values and a critique of post-war Japan.

In 1970, at the age of 45, he committed ritual suicide (seppuku) after completing his final novel, shocking the world and cementing his legacy as a controversial figure in Japanese literature.