Yamasaki Toyoko
Yamasaki Toyoko ( Japanese 山崎 豊 子 ; born November 3, 1924 in Osaka ; † September 29, 2013 ) was a Japanese writer.
Yamasaki studied Japanese literature at the Kyōto Women's University until 1945 and then worked as a journalist for the magazine Mainichi Shimbun . She made her debut as a writer in 1957 with the short story Noren ( 暖 簾 ). She received the Naoki Prize for the novel Hana Noren , published the following year . Many of her novels, which are often based on real events, became bestsellers, such as Shiroi kyotō ( 白 い 巨塔 ; 1965), Karei naru ichizoku ( 華麗 な る 一族 ; three volumes, 1973), Fumō chitai ( 不毛 地 帯 ; four volumes, 1978) and Futatsu no sokoku ( 二 つ の 祖国 ; 1983), and several of them were filmed. From 1987 the novel Daichi no ko ( 大地 の 子 ) appeared in the magazine Bungei Shunjū , for which she received the Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1991 .
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- Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Yamasaki Toyoko . In: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 , p. 153–156 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Toyoko Yamasaki in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Yamasaki, Toyoko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山崎 豊 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 2013 |