Rie Yoshiyuki

Rie Yoshiyuki ( Japanese 吉行理恵 , Yoshiyuki Rie ; born July 8, 1939 in Tokyo ; † May 4, 2006 ibid) was a Japanese poet and writer.

Life

Rie Yoshiyuki was born in 1939 as the daughter of the literary anarchist and Dadaist Eisuke Yoshiyuki (1906-1940) and his wife Aguri (1907-). Her mother opened the first Western-style beauty salon and also wrote several books. Her older brother Junnosuke is also a writer, her older sister Kazuko an actress.

Rie studied Japanese literature at Waseda University until 1962 . She published her first poems in Vega magazine . In 1963 her first volume of poetry, Aoi heya, was published . Four years later she received the Tamura Toshiko Prize for her third volume of poetry, Im Traum . This is followed by collections of stories such as In Memory , the award-winning story The Little Lady (1978) or Twins in the Labyrinth .

Rie died of thyroid cancer on May 4, 2006 in a Tokyo hospital.

Prizes and awards

1968 Tamura Toshiko Prize Yume no naka de ( 夢の中で )
1981 Akutagawa Prize for Chiisana kifujin ( 小さな貴婦人 )
1989 Women's Literature Prize for Kiiroi neko ( 黄色い猫 )

Works (selection)

1970 Otoko kirai ( 男嫌い , hatred of men ), story
1970 Yoshiyuki Rie shishū ( 吉行理恵詩集 , Yoshiyuki Rie poetry collection )
1975 Ido no hoshi ( 井戸の星 )
- The stars in the fountain . Translated by Jürgen Stalph, in: The eleventh house. , Munich, iudicium, 1987, pp. 62-78
1975 Kumo no iru sora ( 雲のいる空 , In the sky where clouds live )
1978 Chiisana kifujin ( 小さな貴婦人 , The Little Lady )
1985 Mairo no futago ( 迷路の双子 , twins in the labyrinth ), poems
o. J. Kioku no naka ni ( 記憶のなかに , in memory ), stories

literature

Barbara Yoshida-Krafft (Ed.): The eleventh house. Stories by contemporary Japanese authors . iudicium, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-89129-301-1 , p. 290-291 .

Web links

Family Tree and Tomb (Japanese)
Poems by Rie Yoshiyuki (Engl./Jap.)

Individual evidence

^ Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculum Press, Copenhagen 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 (English, limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Yoshiyuki, Rie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	吉行理恵 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 2006
Place of death	Tokyo

[1] Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculum Press, Copenhagen 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 (English, limited preview in Google book search).