Seiko Tanabe

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Seiko Tanabe ( Japanese 田 辺 聖 子 , Tanabe Seiko ; born March 27, 1928 in Osaka , † June 6, 2019 in Kobe ) was a Japanese writer .

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Seiko Tanabe, the daughter of a photographer, lost her parents' home in an air raid in 1945, and her father died in the same year. After attending the girls' school, she graduated from the Shōin Joshi Senmon Gakkō (Shōin-technical school for women), which she graduated in 1947 with a degree in Japanese literature. She then worked for seven years in a kitchen goods store in Osaka before visiting the Osaka Bungaku Gakkō . In 1966 she married the physicist Kawano Sumio. Since 1976 she lived in Itami .

Her literary career began in 1957 during her time at the Ōsaka Bungaku Gakkō , where her story Hanagari ( 花 狩 ) was nominated for the literary competition of a women's magazine. She also wrote radio plays. In 1963 she received her for Sentimental Journey (感傷 旅行（セ ン チ メ ン タ ル ・ ジ ャ ー ニ ィ）, Senchimentaru Jānī ) the Akutagawa Prize . In the following years, an extensive literary work was created (among other things published in a 25-volume work edition), which included novels and poems as well as biographies, translations and essays and was widely recognized. For Hanai nugu ya matsuwaru ( 花衣 ぬ ぐ や ま つ わ る ) she was awarded the women's literature prize, and in 1994 she received the Kikuchi Kan prize . The novel Dōtombori no ame ni wakarete irai nari ( 道 頓 堀 の 雨 に 別 れ て 以来 な り ) was awarded the 1998 Yomiuri Literature Prize and the Izumi-Kyōka Literature Prize. In 2000 Tanabe was honored as a person with special cultural merits , in 2006 she received the Asahi Prize for her life's work . In 2008 she received the cultural medal from the emperor .

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  • Chieko Irie Mulhern (Ed.): Japanese Woman Writers. A bio-critical source book . Greenwood Press, Westport 1994, pp. 457 ff . ( Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 15, 2014]).
  • 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. 200–203 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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SURNAME Tanabe, Seiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田 辺 聖 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2019
Place of death Kobe