Setsuko Tsumura
Setsuko Tsumura ( Japanese 津 村 節 子 , Tsumura Setsuko , real name: 北 原 節 子 Kitahara Setsuko ; born June 5, 1928 in Fukui , Fukui Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer. She was married to the writer Akira Yoshimura .
Life
Setsuko Tsumura was born in 1928 as the second of three daughters to a silk merchant from Nagano. After attending the 5th Takada Normal School , she switched to the 5th Tokyo Girls' High School in 1941. In the last years of the war she did labor in armaments factories until she began training as a dressmaker in 1947. After graduation, with the support of her two sisters, she opened a tailor's shop, which she closed again in 1950 to devote herself to writing and hand coloring books. In 1951, she enrolled at Gakushuin Women's College in Japanese Literature. During her studies she worked as an editor for the magazines Hamayufu and Akae . During this time she met Akira Yoshimura, who also worked for Akae magazine, whom she married right after graduating in 1953. In the 1950s and early 1960s, her novels were nominated for important literary prizes for the first time, and Tsumura received her first award in 1964 with the Dōjin Zasshishō from Shinchōsha for Gangu , for which she also received the Akutagawa Prize a year later.
From 1995 onwards, Tsumura has been working at the Home Literature Research Center of Jin'ai Short Term University for Women in Fukui. In 2003 she became a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts . In 2006 her husband Akira Yoshimura, who is known for his documentary literature, dies of cancer. In 2016, Tsumura was honored as a person with special cultural merits .
Prizes and awards
- 1965 Akutagawa Prize
- 1990 women's literature award
- 2003 Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts (Onshishō)
- In 2004 she was made an honorary citizen of her hometown Fukui
- 2011 Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize
- 2011 Kikuchi Kan Prize
Works (selection)
- 1965 Gangu ( 玩具 )
- 1965 Kaimei ( 海鳴 )
- 1990 Ryūseiu ( 流星 雨 )
- 2011 Ikyō ( 異 郷 )
- 2011 Kōbai ( 紅梅 )
- The house in the wind , translated by Eduard Klopfenstein. In: Eduard Klopfenstein (Hrsg.): Mondscheintropfen. Japanese stories 1940–1990 , Theseus, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-85936-061-2
Web links
- Diana Donath: Women's Issues in Modern Japanese Literature - Twenty Women Authors from the 1960s to the 1980s. (PDF) 2012, accessed November 28, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 津 村 節 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 25, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ 福井 市 名誉 市民 ・ 市民 栄 誉 賞 . Fukui City, April 5, 2016, accessed November 28, 2016 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsumura, Setsuko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 津 村 節 子 (Japanese); Kitahara Setsuko (real name); 北 原 節 子 (real name, Japanese); Yoshimura Setsuko (married); 吉 村 節 子 (married, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fukui , Tokyo Prefecture |