Ōta Yōko
Ōta Yōko ( Japanese 大田 洋子 ; born November 18, 1906 in Hiroshima Prefecture ; † December 10, 1963 ) was a Japanese writer.
Ōta came out in the 1930s with her first novels such as Sakura no kuni ( 桜 の 国 , "Land of Cherry Blossoms"), for which she received a prize from Asahi Shimbun magazine in 1940 . She was shaped by the atomic bombing on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which she witnessed in the city. Based on this, she wrote Shikabane no machi ( 屍 の 街 , "city of corpses") in the same year ; however, the publishers refused to publish it until 1948 and then only abbreviated it. Beginning with this work, the event took center stage in her literary work and made her an important representative of the “atomic bomb literature”. This was followed by works such as Ningen ranru ( menschliche 襤褸 , "human (r) scraps"; 1951, awarded the women's literature prize), Hotaru ( た „る ," glow worms "; 1953) and Han ningen ( 半 hal ," half man "; 1954) . A four-volume complete edition of her works ( 大田 洋子 集 , Ōta Yōko shū ) was published posthumously in 1981.
Works
- Half a man and a light like on the seabed , in: Since that day , ed. v. Ito, Narihiko / Schaarschmidt, Siegfried / Schamoni, Wolfgang. Fischer 1984. ISBN 3-596-25862-6 .
literature
- John Whittier Treat: Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb . The University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 0-226-81177-8 , Ōta Yōko and the Place of the Narrator, pp. 199-228 .
source
- ↑ John Whittier Treat: Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb . The University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 0-226-81177-8 , pp. 93 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ōta, Yōko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 大田 洋子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hiroshima Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1963 |