Shibaki Yoshiko

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Shibaki Yoshiko ( Japanese 芝 木 好 子 , bourgeois 島 島 好 Ō Ōshima Yoshiko ; born May 7, 1914 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † August 25, 1991 ) was a Japanese writer.

Shibaki, who came from a merchant family, attended the Daiichi girls' school and studied English at the Surugadai YWCA Womans's Academy . After her father's death, she worked at the Mitsubishi Center for Economic Studies from 1939–40 . The following year she married the economics professor Ōshima Kiyoshi. She has been writing for magazines such as Reijokai ( 令 女 界 ) and Wakakusa since the mid-1930s and received the Hayashi Fumiko Prize in 1936 .

For the story Seika no ichi ( 青果 の 市 ) she received the Akutagawa Prize in 1941 . After the war she published novels such as Nagareru hi ( 流 れ る 日 , 1946), Onna hitori ( 女 一 人 or 女 ひ と り , 1956) and Ruri no uta ( 流離 の 唄 , 1948) and attracted attention with novels that were set in the prostitute environment Susaki paradaisu ( 洲 崎 パ ラ ダ イ ス , 1954) and Yakō no onna ( 夜光 の 女 , 1955). In the early 1960s she published an autobiographical trilogy of novels, for the first part of which, Yuba ( 湯 葉 , 1961) she received the women's literature prize. A second time she was awarded the 1972 prize for Seiji kinuta ( 青磁 砧 ).

In 1981 Shibaki received the Japanese Academy of Arts prize, of which she became a member the following year. In 1984 she was awarded the Grand Prize for Japanese Literature for Sumida-gawa boshoku ( 隅田川 暮色 ) , followed three years later by the Mainichi Art Prize for Yuki mai ( 雪舞 い ) and in 1989 the honor as a person with special cultural merits .

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personal data
SURNAME Shibaki, Yoshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 芝 木 好 子 (Japanese); Ōshima, Yoshiko (married)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1991