Rie Yoshiyuki
Rie Yoshiyuki | |
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Native name | 吉行 理恵 |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | July 8, 1939
Died | May 4, 2006 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 66)
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Japanese |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Waseda University |
Genre | Fiction |
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Rie Yoshiyuki (吉行 理恵, Yoshiyuki Rie, July 8, 1939 – May 4, 2006) was a Japanese poet and novelist.[1] She won the Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize, the Women's Literature Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
Biography
Early life
Her father was the author Eisuke Yoshiyuki. Her mother was Aguri Yoshiyuki, a beauty shop owner whose autobiography was adapted into an NHK television series.[2] Her older brother Junnosuke was also a novelist and her older sister Kazuko is an actress. She graduated from the department of literature at Waseda University in 1961.[1]
Career
Yoshiyuki's first poetry collection was published in 1963, titled Aoi Heya (青い部屋, Blue Room). She won the Tamura Toshiko Prize for another collection, Yume no Naka de (夢の中で, In a Dream), which was published in 1967.[1]
Her children's novel Mahōtsukai no Kushan Neko (まほうつかいのくしゃんねこ, Sneezing Cat, a Magician) was published in 1970 and won the 9th Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize.[3][1] In 1981 she won the Akutagawa Prize for Chisana Kifujin (小さな貴婦人, Little Lady).[4] In 1989 she won the Women's Literature Prize for Kiiroi Neko (黄色い猫, Yellow Cat).[5]
Yoshiyuki died in Tokyo on May 4, 2006 of thyroid cancer.[6]
Recognition
- 1970 9th Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize[3]
- 1981 85th Akutagawa Prize (1981上)[4]
- 1989 28th Women's Literature Prize[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck; Marlene R. Edelstein (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-87-7289-268-9.
- ^ "Pioneering beautician Aguri Yoshiyuki dies at 107". The Japan Times. August 11, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ a b "野間児童文芸新人賞" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ a b "芥川賞受賞者一覧". 日本文学振興会 (in Japanese). Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ a b "女流文学賞受賞作品一覧". Chuokoron-Shinsha. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ "吉行理恵さん死去/芥川賞作家、詩人". Shikoku News (in Japanese). May 8, 2006. Retrieved August 14, 2018.