Tomoko Yoshida
Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子; Hamamatsu, February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer.
She studied economics at the Nagoya Women's University and grew up in Shinkyō (currently Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo.[1] After World War II, she moved to Toyohara (nowadays Ioujno-Sakhalinsk) and came back to Japan in 1947, where she worked as a high school teacher in Hamamatsu and for the magazines Ise Shimbun, Gomu (ゴム) and Fabeln, Parabeln (寓話).[2]
Awards
- 1970 Akutagawa Prize, Mumyōjōya (無明長夜)
- 1985 Women's literature Prize, Manshū wa shiranai (満洲は知らない)
- 1992 Kawabata Prize, Osonae (お供え)
- 1998 Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, 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)
- 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)
- 1985 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)
References
External links
- (Japanese) kotobank.jp
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