Kiyoko Murata ( Jap. 村田 喜 代 子 Murata Kiyoko , born April 12, 1945 ) is a Japanese writer .
| Kiyoko Murata | |
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| 喜 代 子 | |
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| Occupation | novelist |
| Years of creativity | since the 1970s |
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| Debut | Underwater Voice (水中 の 声, 1977 ) |
| Awards | Akutagava Prize Noma Award Kawabata Prize |
| Awards | [d] ( 1997 ) literary prize for the best female work ( 1990 ) literary prize named after Yasunari Kawabata ( 1998 ) literary award named Taiko Hirabayashi ( 1992 ) Ryunosuke Akutagawa Prize ( 1987 ) Noma Literary Prize ( 2010 ) |
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Life and creativity
She was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in the city of Yahata (now the Nihatanisi district of Kitakyushu) after the official divorce of her parents. After graduating from high school, she worked as a postman, a waitress, in a iron foundry. In 1967 she married, gave birth to two daughters. She made her debut in literature in 1977 with the story “Underwater Voice”, which was awarded the literary prize of the 7th Kyushu Art Festival, after which she began to write regularly. In 1986, her story “Passionate Love” was published in the magazine “ Bungakukai ”.
Since 1986, she has been nominated for the Akutagawa Prize three times, having received it in 1987 for the novel “In the boiler”. The work was subsequently taken by Akira Kurosawa as the basis for the script of one of his most recent paintings, The August Rhapsody (Murat, however, remained dissatisfied with Kurosawa’s interpretation, publishing an essay on the pages of Bungei Senju).
In the works of the early period of creativity the writer was dominated by fantastic motifs, repressed by the end of the 1990s with realistic prose. G. Dutkina translated into Russian the short story "Siomaneki" (published in Foreign Literature , No. 2/2001).
Recognition
- 1977 - Literary Award of the 7th Kyushu Art Festival for Underwater Voice (水中 の 声)
- 1987 - Akutagava Prize for the novel "In the boiler" (鍋 の 中)
- 1990 - Literary Award for the best female work for the “White Mountain” (白 い 山)
- 1992 - Hirabayashi Award for "Bike in the Night" (真 夜 中 の 自 転 車)
- 1997 - Murasaki Shikibu Prize for The Recluse (蟹)
- 1998 - Kawabata Prize for Siomanaki (望)
- 1999 - Award of the Ministry of Education of Japan for "Riugugetanka" (龍 秘 御 天歌)
- 2007 - Purple Ribbon Medal
- 2010 - Noma Prize for “Father's House” (故 郷 の わ が 家)
Notes
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.