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Agawa Hiroyuki
Hiroyuki Agawa
Native name
阿川 弘之
Born(1920-12-24)December 24, 1920
DiedAugust 3, 2015(2015-08-03) (aged 94)
LanguageJapanese
NationalityJapanese

Hiroyuki Agawa (阿川 弘之, Agawa Hiroyuki) (December 24, 1920 – August 3, 2015) was a Japanese author. He was known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays.[1]

  1. ^ 作家の阿川弘之氏が死去 文化勲章受章者、正論執筆メンバー (in Japanese). sankei. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.

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