Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (born 1924)

Kōbō Abe

Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor

Kimifusa Abe , known by his pen name Kōbō Abe , was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernist sensibilities…