Nobuko Takagi

Nobuko Takagi

Nobuko Takagi ( Japanese 高 樹 の ぶ 子 , civil Nobuko Tsuruta ( 鶴 田 信 子 ); born April 9, 1946 in Hōfu in Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Center for Asian Political Science at Kyushu University .

Life

Takagi studied education in the short university course of the Christian women's university Tōkyō . Her first work Sono hosoki michi , which was also nominated for the Akutagawa Prize but did not receive the prize, was published in 1980.

Takagi's works mainly deal with the theme of love in all its manifestations.

Prize and awards

• 1984 Akutagawa Prize for Hikari idaku tomo yo ( 光 抱 く 友 よ )
• 1994 Shimase Ren'ai Literature Prize for Tsuta-moe ( 蔦 燃 )
• 1995 Women's Literature Prize for Suimyaku ( 水 脈 )
• 1999 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize for Tōkō no ki ( 透光 の 樹 )
• 2010 Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize for Tomosui ( ト モ ス イ )
• 2018 person with special cultural merits

Works (selection)

• 1984 Hakō kirameku hate ( 波光 き ら め く 果 て )
• 1988 Niji no kōkyō ( 虹 の 交響 )
• 1988 Atsui tegami ( 熱 い 手紙 )
• 1991 Flashback ( フ ラ ッ シ ュ バ ッ ク )
• 1992 Shiroi hikari no gogo ( 白 い 光 の 午後 )
• 1995 Suimyaku ( 水 脈 )
• 1998 Isutambūru no yami ( イ ス タ ン ブ ー ル の 闇 )
• 1998 Samoa gensō ( サ モ ア 幻想 )

Film adaptations

• 1986 Hakō kirameku hate ( 波光 き ら め く 果 て ) Director: Fujita Toshiya
• 1996 Kiri no shigosen ( 霧 の 子午線 ) Director: Deme Masanobu
• 2004 Tōkō no ki ( 透光 の 樹 ) Director: Negishi Kichitarō
• 2009 The girl with the magic hair ( マ イ マ イ 新 子 と 千年 の 魔法 , Maimai shinko to sennen no mahō ) Director: Katabuchi Sunao

Web links

• Biographical summary (Japanese)
• Nobuko Takagi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Takagi - Japanese Literature ( Memento from August 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Lisette Gebhard: Precarious Literature

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Takagi is the family name, Nobuko the first name.