Kunie Iwahashi

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Kunie Iwahashi

Kunie Iwahashi ( Japanese 岩 橋 邦 枝 , Iwahashi Kunie ; born October 10, 1934 in Hiroshima as Kunie Nemoto ( 根本 邦 枝 , Nemoto Kunie ); † June 11, 2014 in Fukuoka ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

The daughter of a Christian teacher couple left Hiroshima with her family two months before the atomic bomb was dropped. In 1957 she graduated from Ochanomizu Women's University with a degree in social pedagogy . With her first short story, Tsuchi kure , she won the national student writing competition in 1954. With Fusanka she won the Fujinkon Prize in 1956 .

After her marriage in 1957, her literary production was reduced, in her later works she repeatedly reflected on the situation of married women. In 1982 she was awarded the Hirabayashi Taiko Literature Prize for the Asai Nemuri short story book . In the Hanryo short story collection , for which she received the Japanese Minister of Education award, Iwahashi dealt with the death of her husband, who had died in 1983.

In Ai to hangyaku: kindai josei shi o tsukutta onna-tachi , Iwahashi wrote the biographies of twelve women in recent Japanese history. For Ukihashi she received the Women's Literature Prize (Joryū Bungaku Shō) in 1992 .

Kunie Iwahashi died on June 11, 2014 in Fukuoka at the age of 79 from complications from peritonitis .

Works

  • 1956 Gyakukōsen ( 逆光 線 ), short stories
  • 1976 Shizukana mijikai gogo ( 静 か な み じ か い 午後 ), short stories
  • 1981 Asai nemuri ( 浅 い 眠 り )
  • 1984 Manatsubi ( 真 夏日 ), short stories
  • 1984 Ai to hangyaku: kindai joseishi o tsukutta onna-tachi ( 愛 と 反逆 近代 女性 史 を 創 っ た 女 た ち ), biographies
  • 1985 Hanryo ( 伴侶 ), novel
  • 1987 Nakazora ni ( 中空 に ), short stories
  • 1988 Meichō ( 迷 鳥 ), short stories
  • 1992 Ukihashi ( 浮橋 ), novel

source

  • Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Iwahashi Kunie . In: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 , p. 137–139 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 作家 の 岩 橋 邦 枝 さ ん 死去… 女性 文学 者 の 評 伝 な ど . In: Yomiuri Online. Yomiuri Shimbun- sha, June 12, 2014, accessed June 14, 2014 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ a b 岩 橋 邦 枝 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed May 25, 2012 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Iwahashi, Kunie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岩 橋 邦 枝 (Japanese); Nemoto Kunie (real name); 根本 邦 枝 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hiroshima
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2014
Place of death Fukuoka