Nanae Aoyama

Nanae Aoyama ( Japanese 青山 七 恵 , Aoyama Nanae ; born January 20, 1983 in Kumagaya , Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

After Aoyama high school in Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture had finished, she studied at the University of Library and Information Science in Tsukuba ( Ibaraki Prefecture ). With her literary debut Mado no Akari ( 窓 の 灯 ) in 2005 she won the Bungei Prize ( 文藝 賞 ). Just one year later she received the 136th Akutagawa Prize for her story Hitori Biyori ( ひ と り 日 和 ) . The subject of her story is the so-called freeter . In 2009 she received the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize as the youngest recipient of Kakera ( か け ら ) .

From 2012 to 2017 she was a member of the jury for the Gunzō Young Talent Award for Literature . From 2015 to 2017 she taught creative writing at Hōsei University and from 2016 to 2017 she worked for the daily newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun as a member of the reading committee. In January / February 2018 she stayed in Saint-Nazaire , France , as part of the MEET (La Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs) residency program .

Works

• 2005 Mado no akari ( 窓 の 灯 )
• 2006 Hitori biyori ( ひ と り 日 和 )
  • Eigenwetter , translated by Katja Busson, cass Verlag, Löhne 2015, ISBN 978-3-944751-05-4
• 2008 Yasashii tameiki ( や さ し い た め 息 )
• 2009 Kakera ( か け ら )
  • Fragments , translated by Katja Busson and Frieder Lommatzsch, cass Verlag, Löhne 2018, ISBN 978-3-944751-17-7
• 2009 Mahōtsukai kurabu ( 魔法 使 い ク ラ ブ )
• 2010 Owakare no oto ( お 別 れ の 音 )

Secondary literature

Lisette Gebhardt (Ed.): “Yomitai! New Literature from Japan ”. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-057-3 , p. 115.

Web links

• Biographical summary (Japanese)
• Interview in Japan Times