Ayako Sono

Ayako Sono during her school days

Ayako Sono ( Japanese 曾 野 綾 子 , Sono Ayako , really: Chizuko Miura ( 三浦 知 寿 子 , Miura Chizuko ); born September 17, 1931 in Katsushika , Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer .

Sono attended a Catholic girls' school in Tokyo, from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree in English. In 1948 she converted to the Catholic faith, in 1953 she married the literary scholar and author Shumon Miura . In 1949 she began writing while in high school, as the only female member of a group of authors.

For Enrai no kyaku-tachi ( 遠 来 の 客 た ち ) she was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 1954 . In several of her books she reflected on her devotion to the Catholic faith. At the beginning of the 1970s a seven- and a twelve-volume selection of her works were published. In 1974 she received an audience with Pope Paul VI. In 1982 she traveled 45 days in the footsteps of Paul through the Middle East.

In 1980 she refused to accept the women's literature prize , which she should be awarded for the book Kami no yogoreta te ( 神 の 汚 れ た 手 ). In 1993 she received the Onshi-shō (Imperial Prize) of the Japanese Academy of Arts . In 2003 she was awarded as a Bunka Kōrōsha (person with special cultural merits). In 2012 she received the Kikuchi Kan Prize “for her longstanding achievements as a writer, critic of social problems and her devoted work in the context of the relief campaign with JOMAS for ailing countries in the Third World”.

Works (selection)

• 1979 Getsuyōbi no asa no hikari ( 月曜日 の 朝 の 光 )
  • Morgenlicht am Montag , translated by Doris Jacoby, in: Tadao Arai, Ekkehard May (Ed.): Zeit der Zikaden. Japanese Reading Book , Munich, Piper, pp. 219-224
• 1979 Koromoyama ( 衣 山 )
  • Koromoyama , translated by Hans-Michael Schlarb, in: Tadao Arai, Ekkehard May (Hrsg.): Zeit der Zikaden. Japanese Reading Book , Munich, Piper, pp. 225-231
• 1986 Saikai ( 再 開 )
  • A reunion , translated by Heinz Haase, In: Marianne Bretschneider, Heinz Haase: Explorations. 19 Japanese storytellers , Berlin, Volk und Welt, 1989, pp. 256–270

Web links

Commons : Ayako Sono  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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• Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 , p. 132–134 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Phyllis Birnbaum: Rabbits, Crabs, Etc .: Stories by Japanese Women . University of Hawaii Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8248-0817-7 , pp. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Scott J. Miller: The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-7615-6 , pp. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

1. ↑ 曽 野 綾 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 1, 2014 (Japanese).