Mari Akasaka

Mari Akasaka ( Japanese 赤 坂 真理 , Akasaka Mari ; born May 13, 1964 in Suginami , Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer from J-Bungaku .

Life

Mari Akasaka was born in Suginami in 1964 and still lives there today. She studied political science at Keiō University and currently works mainly as a magazine editor. So far she has published several novels on the side.

In 1999 her novel Vibration was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize . In 2000 she was nominated again for the Akutagawa Prize, this time for the short story Muse , which eventually won the Noma Prize for Literature for Debutants.

Vibration is her first book that is available in German translation. It was filmed in Japan in 2003. For Tōkyō Prison ( 東京 プ リ ズ ン ) she received the Mainichi Culture Prize in 2012 and the Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize in 2013 .

Works

• Kibakusha ( 起爆 者 ). 1993.
• Chō no Hifu no Shita ( 蝶 の 皮膚 の 下 , for example: "Under the skin of a butterfly"). 1997.
• Vaiburēta ( ヴ ァ イ ブ レ ー タ ). 1998.
  • Vibrator. translated into English by Michael Emmerich. Faber & Faber, London 2006, ISBN 0-571-21087-2 .
  • Vibration. translated by Sabine Mangold . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05518-1 .
• Vanilla. 1999.
• Calling. 1999.
• Muse ( ミ ュ ー ズ , Eng. "The Muse"). 1999.
• Kare ga kanojo no onna datta koro ( 彼 が 彼女 の 女 だ っ た 頃 ). 2003.
• Tōkyō Prison (東京 プ リ ズ ン). 2012.

Web link

• Mari Akasaka on Facebook , accessed August 24, 2016