Setsuko Shinoda
Setsuko Shinoda ( Japanese 篠 田 節 子 , Shinoda Setsuko ; born October 23, 1955 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.
Shinoda graduated from the Faculty of Education at Gakugei University of Tokyo . Then she worked until 1990 in the town hall of Hachiōji . Since then she has lived as a freelance writer. Since childhood she was fascinated by fantastic and science fiction literature (e.g. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Forgotten World ). She has published over 40 novels in these genres, as well as short stories and essays.
With Inoue Masahiko she gave a collection of interviews with prominent horror literature authors under the title Horror o Kaku! ( ホ ラ ー を 書 く! , Horā o Kaku! ) Out. For the novel Onnatachi no Jihad ( 女 た ち の ジ ハ ー ド , ~ jihādo , dt. "Jihad of women") she was awarded the Naoki Prize in 1997 , in 1998 she was awarded Saitō-ke no kakudantō ( 斉 藤 家 の 核 弾 頭 ) for nominated for the Seiun Prize .
literature
- Cecilia Scheid: The new female self-image in Japanese women's literature of the Heisei era. Shinoda Setsukos "Jihad of Women" , Master's thesis at the JW Goethe University, Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Frankfurt am Main 2010.
swell
- Dunia Encyclopedia - Shinoda Setsuko
- Laurence C. Bush: Asian Horror Encyclopedia: Asian Horror Culture in Literature, Manga and Folklore . Writers Club Press, 2001, ISBN 0-595-20181-4 , pp. 165 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Setsuko Shinoda in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Literature by and about Setsuko Shinoda in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Setsuko Shinoda at Open Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shinoda, Setsuko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 篠 田 節 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |