Tomoko Yoshida
Japanese writer
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| Intro | Japanese writer | |
| A.K.A. | Tomoko Kira | |
| A.K.A. | Tomoko Kira | |
| Places | Japan | |
| is | Writer Novelist | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 6 February 1934, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Chūbu region, Japan | |
| Age | 90 years |
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Biography
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. 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).
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)