Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara ( Japanese 金 原 ひ と み , Kanehara Hitomi ; born August 8, 1983 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer . She made her first attempts at writing in her early teens. She was supported by her father Kanehara Mizuhito, who is a translator of children's and youth literature and a literature professor at the University of Tokyo . She lives in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo .

Life

For her first novel Hebi ni piasu ( Tokyo Love ), Kanehara received the 2003 Subaru Prize and the Akutagawa Prize . She was 20 years old at the time of the award, making her the second youngest recipient to date, after Wataya Risa , with whom she shared the latter award and who was 19 years old at the time of the award ceremony. Tokyo Love was made into a film by Yukio Ninagawa in 2008 .

In 2007 she took on a role as a voice actress in the anime film version Kafka Inakaisha (カ フ カ 田 舎 医 者). Kanahara's literary works Tokyo Love and the short story Ertofikushon ( Obsession ) published in 2006 have been published in German by Ullstein Verlag in a translation by Sabine Mangold.

In December 2010 Kanehara Hitomi received for her novel Trip Trap , endowed with a prize of one million yen Odasaku-nosuke Prize of the Osaka-Literature Institute and in 2012 the equally endowed with one million yen Bunkamura Prix des Deux Magots for Mothers .

Works

• 2003 Hebi ni piasu ( 蛇 に ピ ア ス ), ISBN 4087746836
  • in English translation (by David James Karashima): Snakes and Earrings. 2005, ISBN 0525948899
  • in German translation (by Sabine Mangold ): Tokyo Love. List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3471795383
• 2004 Asshu beibii ( ア ッ シ ュ ベ イ ビ ー ), ISBN 4087747018
• 2005 AMEBIC , ISBN 4087747018
• 2005 Ōtofikushon ( オ ー ト フ ィ ク シ ョ ン ), ISBN 9784087753646
  • in English translation (by David James Karashima): Autofiction. 2007, ISBN 9780099515982
  • in German translation (by Sabine Mangold): Obsession 2007, ISBN 9783550087172
• 2007 Haidora ( ハ イ ド ラ ), ISBN 4103045310
• 2007 Hoshi e ochiru ( 星 へ 落 ち る ), ISBN 4087748979
• 2009 Yūutsu tachi ( 憂鬱 た ち ), ISBN 4163285202
• 2009 Trip Trap ( ト リ ッ プ ・ ト ラ ッ プ ), ISBN 4048740121
• 2011 Mazāzu ( マ ザ ー ズ ), ISBN 9784103045328

literature

• Lisette Gebhardt: Hitomi Kanehara: Mannerisms of denial in Japanese women writers 1890-2006 (Eduard Klopfenstein, ed.) In the journal of the Swiss Asian Society, Asian Studies LXI-2-2007, pp. 685–695, Verlag Peter Lang AG, Bern, ISSN  0004-4717

Web links

• Literature by and about Hitomi Kanehara in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of Tokyo Love and Obsession on Embjapan.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janet Ashby: New Akutagawa winners offer hope . In: The Japan Times Online . March 4, 2004 (Retrieved February 20, 2008)
2. ↑ asahi.com: Odasaku Nosuku shô ni Kanehara Hitomi san "TRIP TRAP" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: asahi.com, December 13, 2010 (accessed January 21, 2011)