Osamu Dazai

The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.

Osamu Dazai

The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.

Books by Osamu Dazai

  • Self-Portraits: Stories

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

    Paperback, 2024

    Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraitsshows the legendary writer at his best—and his worst
  • Self-Portraits: Stories

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

    E Book

    Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraitsshows the legendary writer at his best—and his worst
  • The Beggar Student

    Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett

    Paperback, 2024

    For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer
  • The Beggar Student

    Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett

    E Book

    For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer
  • No One Knows

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

    Paperback, 2025

    Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in English
  • No One Knows

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

    E Book

    Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in English
  • Good-Bye

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

    Paperback, 2026

    Eleven new short works by the Osamu Dazai, author of No Longer Human
  • Good-Bye

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

    E Book

    Eleven new short works by the Osamu Dazai, author of No Longer Human