Satoko Kizaki

Satoko Kizaki ( Japanese 木 崎 さ と 子 , Kizaki Satoko ; born November 6, 1939 in Xinjing (today: Changchun ) in Manchuria ) is a Japanese writer.

Kizaki, who came to Japan at the age of seven, graduated from Tōkyō Joshi Daigaku after attending high school in Toyama Prefecture . From 1960 she worked in a commercial enterprise and from 1962 lived abroad for seventeen years. a. from 1962 to 1967 in France and the USA and again between 1976 and 1979 in France.

After returning to Japan, she began her career as a writer. For her debut work, the short story volume Rasoku , she was awarded the Bungakukai Prize for young authors in 1980 and was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize . She received the Akutagawa Prize in 1984 for the book of short stories Ao giri . In the following years she emerged as an author of novels and essays.

Works

• 1982 Rasoku , ( 裸 足 ), short stories
• 1985 Ao giri , ( 青桐 ), short stories
• 1985 Mō hitotsu nō kofuku , short stories
• 1987 Shizumeru tera , ( 沈 め る 寺 ), novel
• 1988 Ai no seiboshi , ( 愛 の 聖母 子 ), novel
• 1988 Nami, half way , ( 波 ハ ー フ ・ ウ ェ イ , Nami hāfu ue), Roman
• 1988 Utsukushii deai , ( 美 し い 出 会 い ), essays
• 1989 Sanzoku no haka , ( 山賊 の 墓 ), novel
• 1990 Kōfuku no tani , ( 幸福 の 谷 ), short stories
• 1991 Ato naki niwa ni , ( 跡 な き 庭 に ), novel

source

• 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. 297–299 ( limited preview in Google Book search).