Keiko Iwasaka (岩阪恵子, born June 17, 1946) is a Japanese novelist.

Biography

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Iwasaki was born in Nara[1] or Osaka,[2] Japan on June 17, 1946. She began writing poetry in high school, and began writing novels after graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University. She is married to Takayuki Kiyooka.[1]

She won the Noma Literary Prize in 1986 for her novel Mimoza no Hayashi de (ミモザの林を).[2] Her Gakka Koide Narashige no Shōzō (画家小出楢重の肖像) won the Hirabayashi Taiko Prize [ja] in 1992. Her 1994 Yodogawa ni Chikai Machi kara (淀川にちかい町から) won the Murasaki Shikibu Prize and the Geijutsu Senshō [ja]. She was awarded the 2000 Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award [ja] for her Ame nochi Ame? (雨のち雨?).[3]

She also wrote two nonfiction works about the poets Shōhei Kiyama [ja] and Mokutarō Kinoshita. Reviewers wrote positively about both books.[4][5]

Selected works

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  • Mimoza no Hayashi de (ミモザの林を), 1986
  • Gakka Koide Narashige no Shōzō (画家小出楢重の肖像), 1992
  • Yodogawa ni Chikai Machi kara (淀川にちかい町から), 1994
  • Ame nochi Ame? (雨のち雨?), 2000

References

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  1. ^ a b 日本人名大辞典+Plus, デジタル版. "岩阪恵子とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  2. ^ a b Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata (1994). Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993. Marlene R. Edelstein. [Copenhagen]: Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 87-7289-268-4. OCLC 32348453.
  3. ^ "岩阪恵子|文学賞の世界". prizesworld.com. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  4. ^ "『木山さん、捷平さん』(新潮社) - 著者:岩阪 恵子 - 堀江 敏幸による書評". 好きな書評家、読ませる書評。ALL REVIEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  5. ^ "『わたしの木下杢太郎』(講談社) - 著者:岩阪 恵子 - 関川 夏央による書評". 好きな書評家、読ませる書評。ALL REVIEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
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