Morio Kita, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist, died he was 84.

Morio Kita (北 杜夫 Kita Morio^?) was the pen name of Sokichi Saitō , a Japanese novelist, essayist, and psychiatrist.^[1]
A graduate of Tohoku University's School of Medicine, Kita initially worked as a doctor at Keio University Hospital. Motivated by the collections of his father's poems and the books of German author Thomas Mann, he decided to become a novelist. He was the second son of poet Mokichi Saitō. Shigeta Saitō, his older brother, is also a psychiatrist. The essayist Yuka Saitō is his daughter.^[2][3]
He has suffered from manic–depressive disorder since his middle age.^[4]

( May 1, 1927 – October 24, 2011)

Awards

• 1960: Akutagawa Prize, for the novel, In The Corner Of Night And Fog, which was about Nacht und Nebel, the campaign in Nazi Germany to catch anti-Nazi activists and members of resistance movements)

Bibliography

Incomplete - to be updated

Novels

• Ghosts (1954)
• The House of Nire. Translated by Dennis Keene. New York: Kodansha International. 1984. ISBN 0-87011-592-8. Briefly noted in The New Yorker 60/48 (January 14, 1985): p. 117

Essays

• Papa wa Tanoshii Sōutubyō (work with Yuka Saitō, Asahi Shimbun Company, ISBN-13: 978-4022504999)

TV

• Nescafé Gold Blend CM (1974)
• Tetsuko no Heya (1980 and May 12, 2008 with Yuka Saitō)

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