Kuniko Mukōda
Appearance
Kuniko Mukōda | |
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Born | Kuniko Mukōda November 28, 1929 Wakabayashi, Setagaya, Ebara-gun, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
Died | August 22, 1981 Sanyi, Miaoli, Taiwan | (aged 51)
Occupation(s) | screenwriter, Novelist, Essayist |
Years active | 1952–1981 |
Kuniko Mukōda (向田 邦子, Mukōda Kuniko, November 28, 1929 – August 22, 1981) was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya."[1]
Life
Mukōda was born in Tokyo, and moved around Japan in her early life due to her father's job. After she graduated from Jissen Women's College (Jissen Women's University), she got a job at Ondori Company, a film publicity company, in 1952. In 1960, she left the company and became a screenwriter and radiowriter. On August 22, 1981, she died on Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 when it crashed in Taiwan.
Works
Some of her short stories are:
- The Name of The Flower
- Small Change
- I Doubt It
- The Otter
- Manhattan
- Beef Shoulder
- The Doghouse
- The Fake Egg
- Triangular Chop
- Mr. Carp
- Ears
- Half-Moon
- The Window
- Meeting Again
- Ashura no Gotoku
References
- ^ "直木賞受賞者一覧" [Naoki Prize Winners List] (in Japanese). 日本文学振興会. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
Further reading
- "Meeting Again" 再会 (Saikai) in Tokyo stories: a literary stroll, Lawrence Rogers (ed.), University of California Press, 2002
External links
Categories:
- 1929 births
- 1981 deaths
- Japanese essayists
- 20th-century Japanese novelists
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Taiwan
- Japanese television writers
- Japanese women short story writers
- Writers from Tokyo
- Naoki Prize winners
- 20th-century Japanese short story writers
- 20th-century essayists
- 20th-century women writers
- Women television writers
- 20th-century Japanese screenwriters
- Japanese writer stubs