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

1. Kurzinfo beim Verlag Shicho

External links

• (Japanese) kotobank.jp