Yasushi Inoue was born in Hokkaido in 1907 and died in Tokyo in 1991. He studied Aesthetics and Philosophy at Kyoto Imperial University , and did a doctoral thesis on the poetry of Paul Valery. He worked as a journalist and art critic . Candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature , was a member of the Academy of Arts of Japan and literary editor of The Mainichi . His work The shotgun received the Akutagawa Prize , the most prestigious prize of Japanese letters. Make your theater work premiered in Spain in 1990. His other published works are Blue Wolf , The Secret History of the Mongols and the ways of the desert. These last two are a sign of his interest in the history of China.