Kiyoko Murata

Kiyoko Murata ( Japanese 村田 喜 代 子 , Murata Kiyoko ; born April 12, 1945 in Yahata (today: Kitakyūshū )) is a Japanese writer.

Murata attended middle school in Hanao until 1964 and then worked a. a. as a newspaper deliverer, usher in the cinema and waitress in a café. In 1975 she made her debut with the short story Suichū no koe ( 水中 の 声 ), with which she won the literature prize at the Kyushu Art Festival. In 1985 she founded her own literary magazine with the title Happyō ( 発 表 ). After two nominations (for Netsuai ( 熱愛 ) and Meiyū ( 盟友 )), she received the Akutagawa Prize in 1987 for Nabe no naka ( 鍋 の 中 ) . For the short story collection Shiroi yama ( 白 い 山 ) Murata was awarded the women's literature prize in 1990. In 1997 she received the Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize for Kanijo ( 蟹 女 ), in 2010 the Noma Literature Prize for Furusato no waga ie ( 故 郷 の わ が 家 ) and the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 2013 for Yūjokō ( ゆ う じ ょ こ う ) .

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• Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden: Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction . ME Sharpe, 1991, ISBN 978-0-87332-860-9 , pp. 275–276 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 , p. 313–315 ( limited preview in Google Book search).