Rieko Matsuura

Rieko Matsuura ( Japanese 松浦 理 英 子 , Matsuura Rieko ; born August 7, 1958 in Matsuyama ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Matsuura was in Matsuyama ( Ehime Prefecture born), spent her junior and senior high school but in Marugame , Kagawa Prefecture and then earned a degree in French literature at Aoyama Gakuin University . She found particular pleasure in the works of the Marquis de Sade and Jean Genets . During her studies, at the age of 20, she received the Bungakukai Young Talent Award for Sōgi no hi ( 葬 儀 の 日 , z. Ger. "Day of Burial") . She was also nominated for the Akutagawa Prize . Her work Nachuraru ūman (Japanese form of the English Natural Woman , z. Ger . "The natural woman"), revolving around the subject of female love, met with great applause on the part of Nakagami Kenji in 1987 , which attracted her attention. In 1993 she received the women's literature award for her Chōhen Shōsetsu (novel) Oyayubi-P no shugyō-jidai ( 親 指 P の 修業 時代 , currently about "years of learning a penis toe"), which became a best seller and is about a woman whose right big toe develops into the male sexual organ mentioned in the title.

Despite the distinction, Matsuura is hardly productive as a writer. Until her next novel, Ura-vājon ( 裏 ヴ ァ ー ジ ョ ン , z. Dt. About "The Kehrversion"), seven passed and up to the following novel Kenshin ( 犬 身 , z. Dt. About "In the body of a dog") more seven years. Kenshin , published in 2007, tells of a woman reborn as a puppy and of love that even bridges differences between species. The novel won the Yomiuri Literature Prize and the Sense of Gender Award .

Since 2007 Matsuura has been a member of the selection committee for the Bungakukai Young Talent Award and since 2008 a member of the selection committee for the Shinchō Young Talent Award (published by Shinchō).