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  <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[His real name is Shuuji Tsushima. Although wanted him to be a politician, as his father, he insisted on being an author. When he applied Tokyo University French Literature Department, he was 20 years old. For most of his lifetime, he was a drug addict, an alcoholic and a tubercular. 


His last book Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human)(1948) is kind of an authobiography; his childhood, his university years, and the times he cathches tuberculosis, was written in detail, in this book.

In 1948, he committed suicide with his mistress.

He is still one of the most popular authors in Japan.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Tsugaru /Kanagi</hometown>  <born_at>06/19/1909</born_at>  <died_at>06/13/1948</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[No Longer Human]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <published>1973</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Setting Sun]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <published>1947</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy (Japan's Modern Writers Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Crackling Mountain and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[La femme de villon]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cent vues du mont Fuji]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The schoolgirl]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dazai Osamu zenshu]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Osamu Dazai]]></name>
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