Sumii Sue
Sumii Sue ( Japanese 住 井 す ゑ ; born January 7, 1902 in Nara ; † June 16, 1997 in Ushiku ) was a Japanese writer.
Sumii attended Haramoto Women's School and graduated as a teacher. She worked for a short time for the publishing house Kōdansha , which she left again because of discriminatory treatment of women. In 1921 she married Inuta Shigeru , an activist of the proletarian agrarian movement. She ran a farm with this one and had four children. During this time she published novels and stories about the life of the Japanese rural population and was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1954 for Yoru ake asa ake ( 夜 あ け 朝 あ け ) .
After the death of her husband in 1958 she began work on her main work, the seven-part novel Hashi no nai kawa ( 橋 の な い 川 , "River without a bridge"), in which she dealt with the fate of the discriminated Burakumin . The first part was published in book form in 1961, and in the period before her death she worked on an eighth part of the work, which was filmed twice in Japan and was published in 1990 in English translation under the title The River with No Bridge .
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- Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sue Sumii
- La Littérature Japonaise - Sumii Sue
- 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. 70–72 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sumii, Sue |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 住 井 す ゑ (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nara |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1997 |
| Place of death | Ushiku |