Yoriko Shono

Yoriko Shōno ( Japanese 笙 野 頼 子 , Shōno Yoriko ; civil 市 川 頼 子 , Ichikawa Yoriko ; born March 16, 1956 ) is a Japanese writer.

Shōno is a representative of the Junbungaku literature, the "pure literature". It has a great reputation in Japanese literary criticism; The literary prizes with which she has already been awarded are correspondingly numerous: in 1981 she received the Gunzō Young Talent Prize for the novel Gokuraku ( 極 楽 ) , and in 1991 the Noma literature prize for debutants for Nanimo shite nai ( な に も し て な い ) . In 1994 she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Taimu surippu konbināto ( タ イ ム ス リ ッ プ ・ コ ン ビ ナ ー ト ) and the Mishima Prize for Nihyakkaiki ( 二百 回 忌 ). For Yūkai morimusume ibun ( 幽 界 森 娘 異 聞 ) she received the 2001 Izumi-Kyōka Literature Prize and for Kompira ( 金 毘羅 ) in 2005 the Itō-Sei Literature Prize . In 2003 she received the Sense of Gender Award for the science fiction novel Shuǐjīng nèi zhìdù .

source

• Frenchy Lunning: "Shōno Yoriko's Critique of the Lolicon" in "Fanthropologies", University of Minnesota Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4529-1565-4 , pp. 330 ff