Osamu Dazai (Prefectura de Aomori, 19 de junio de 1909- Tokio, 13 de junio de 1948) fue un novelista japonés. Al finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Osamu emergió como la voz literaria de su tiempo, capturando el período confuso de posguerra cuando los valores tradicionales fueron desacreditados. Osamu Dazai es uno de los escritores modernos más apreciados en Japón. Al cumplirse el cincuentenario de su muerte, sus obras —de marcadas características autobiográficas y con una rebeldía chocante en una sociedad de rígido conformismo—, cuentan con más seguidores que nunca, tanto en Japón como en otros países.

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Osamu Dazai (太宰 治 Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (Shayō) and No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan. One such literary work, No Longer Human, has received quite a few adaptations: a film directed by Genjiro Arato, the first four episodes of the anime series Aoi Bungaku, and a manga serialized in Shinchosha's Comic Bunch magazine. While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan, he remains relatively unknown in the United States with only a handful of his novels available in English.

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