Fumiko Kometani

Fumiko Kometani (Japanese米谷 ふみ子, Kometani Fumiko, born November 13, 1930 in Osaka ) is a Japanese writer.

Kometani studied Japanese literature at the Women's University in Osaka, but then turned to painting. She participated with an oil painting in an exhibition of the arts organization Nikaki and was bijutsushō with the Kansaijōryū, the art prize for women in the Kansai region, excellent.

In 1960 she received a scholarship to attend an art workshop in Peterborough (New Hampshire). Here she met the writer Josh Greenfeld, with whom she lived in New York for three years. During this time she married Green field and went over to Judaism. After the return of the family to Japan turned out that one of her children was mentally retarded, whereupon Kometani embarking on a literary career.

She has written essays, including about Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Art Carney, Zero Mostel and Alan Schneider, and political writings from the mid- 1970s, also short stories and novels. In 1985 she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1998 with the Women's Literary Award.

Swell

• Chieko Irie Mulhern: "Japanese Women Writers: A Bio - Critical Sourcebook ", Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 9780313254864, pp. 190-199

• Author
• Novel, epic
• Essay
• Literature (Japanese)
• Japanese
• Born in 1930
• Woman