Mizuko Masuda

Mizuko Masuda ( Japanese 増 田 み ず 子 , Masuda Mizuko ; born November 13, 1948 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.

Masuda studied at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ( Tōkyō nōkō daigaku ), where she received a degree in plant immunology in 1973. Until 1980 she taught in the Biochemistry Department of the Medical Faculty at Nihon University .

Her first short story Shigo no kankei ( 死後 の 関係 , 1977) was nominated for the Shinchō magazine's award for new authors . By 1983 she received six nominations for the Akutagawa Prize . She was awarded the Noma Literature Prize for Jiyū jikan (1985), the Izumi-Kyōka Literature Prize for Single Cell (1986) and the Itō-Sei Literature Prize for Tsukuyomi (2001).

Works (selection)

• Flowers (story), ed. v. Eiko Saito, in: Explorations - 12 storytellers from Japan . Volk und Welt 1992. ISBN 3-353-00880-2
• The new life (story), in: Well-kept peaches or About sadness , ed. v. Noboru Miyazaki. Bankruptcy Book 1992. ISBN 3-88769-057-5
• Futatsu no haru ( ふ た つ の 春 ), short stories, 1979
• Dōke no kisetsu ( 道 化 の 季節 ), short stories, 1981
• Mugi-bue ( 麦 笛 ), novel, 1982
• Jisatsu shigan ( 自殺 志願 ), short stories, 1983
• Jijū jikan ( 自由 時間 ), short stories, 1984
• Ie no nioi ( 家 の 匂 い ), short stories, 1985
• Hatachi: mōjū ( 二十 歳 ・ 猛 獣 ), short stories, 1986
• Single Cell ( シ ン グ ル ・ セ ル , Shinguru seru ), novel, 1986
  • Der Einseller , Roman, 2013. Translated by Heike Patzschke. Hamburg, Abera Verlag. ISBN 978-3-939876-00-7
• Hitori kazoku ( 一 人 家族 ), short stories, 1987
• Kōsui kakuritsu ( 降水 確 率 ), short stories, 1987
• Kinshi kūkan ( 禁止 空間 ), novel, 1989
• Come Home ( カ ム ・ ホ ー ム , Kamu hōmu ), short stories, 1991
• Higuchi Ichiyō (樋 口 一葉 ), biography, 1998
• Tsukuyomi ( 月夜 見 ), novel, 2001

swell

• 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. 260–263 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• J. Scott Miller: The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-7615-6 , pp. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).