Takiji Kobayashi
小林多喜二
Background
Birthplace: Odate, Akita, Japan
Death: February 20, 1933
Kobayashi Takiji was a Japanese author of proletarian literature. He is best known for his short novel Kanikousen. The young writer apparently died due to violent torture after arrest by the Tokko police two years later, at the age of 29.
(Source: Wikipedia)