Tomoko Yoshida

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Tomoko Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 知 子 , Yoshida Tomoko , real name Tomoko Kira 吉 良 知 子 ; born February 6, 1934 in Hamamatsu , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Yoshida studied economics at Nagoya State Women's University. She grew up in Shinkyō (today: Changchun ) - capital of Manchukuo - and in northern Manchuria . After the Second World War she lived in Toyohara (today: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) on the island of Sakhalin , from where she returned to Japan in 1947. She worked as a journalist in the Nagoya branch for the Ise Shimbun newspaper , then as a teacher at a high school in Hamamatsu.

In 1963 she worked on the literary magazine Gomu ( ゴ ム ), in 1967 she made her debut with Fables, Parables ( 寓 話 ) in the publishing house Shinchō ( 新潮 ).

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

  • 1970 Mumyōjōya ( 無 明 長夜 )
  • 1971 Iki mono tachi ( 生 き も の た ち )
  • 1971 Yoshida Tomoko sakuhin sen ( 吉田 知 子 作品 選 , selection of works)
  • 1974 Neko no me, onna no me ( 猫 の 目 、 女 の 目 )
  • 1979 Inu no kōfuku ( 犬 の 幸福 )
  • 1980 Chichi no haka ( 父 の 墓 )
  • 1981 Watashi no ai no monogatari ( わ た し の 恋 の 物語 )
  • 1985 Manshū wa shiranai ( 満 洲 は 知 ら な い )
  • 19985 Kamo ( )
  • 1993 Osonae ( お 供 え )
  • 1996 Sennen ōrai ( 千年 往来 )
  • 1998 Hako no tsuma ( 箱 の 夫 )
  • 2003 Nihon nanmin ( 日本 難民 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Brief information from the Shicho publishing house
  2. Information on literature awards received ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )