Tomoko Yoshida
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
- 1970 Akutagawa Prize for Mumyōjōya ( 無 明 長夜 )
- 1985 Women's Literature Prize for Manshū wa shiranai ( 満 洲 は 知 ら な い )
- 1992 Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize for the short story Osonae ( お 供 え )
- 1998 Izumi Kyōka Literature Prize for Hako no tsuma ( 箱 の 夫 )
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 ( 鴨 )
- 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
- Biographical summary (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information from the Shicho publishing house
- ↑ Information on literature awards received ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yoshida, Tomoko |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉田 知 子 (Japanese); Kira Yoshida (real name); 吉 良 知 子 (real name Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamamatsu , Shizuoka Prefecture |