Hisako Matsubara

Hisako Matsubara (Japanese松原 久 子Hisako Matsubara, born May 21, 1935 in Kyoto ) is a Japanese writer, who writes mainly in German language.

Life

Hisako Matsubara is the daughter of a Shinto priest. After the final examination, which she completed in Kyoto, she studied at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She continued her studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where she earned a Master of Arts. Further stations of their studies were Zurich, Marburg and Göttingen; In 1970, she received her doctorate at the Ruhr- University Bochum for Doctor of Philosophy.

After working in the late 1950s in the United States as a lecturer, she let herself in 1969 in Germany down and began, inspired by the study of Heinrich Heine, post their works in German language. She worked as a journalist and was first known by essays on Germany and the Germans in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit as well as documentaries for ARD and ZDF. Large sales success they achieved with their published since the 1970s novels about topics from Japanese history. From the mid- 1980s Hisako Matsubara was scientifically active at the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Today she lives with her family in Los Altos in the U.S. state of California.

Hisako Matsubara 's Club since 1971 a member of the PEN center of Germany and since 1985 of the American Art Directors. For her work she received in 1985, inter alia, the New York Critics Award; In 1987 she was writer-in- residence at the East West Center in Manoa, Hawaii.

The woodcut artist Naoko Matsubara is her sister.

Works

  • The tale of the shining princess, Tokyo 1966
  • View from almond eyes, Munich 1968
  • Worldliness and transcendence in Taketori - Monogatari, PhD Bochum 1970
  • Small World Exhibition, Munich 1970
  • Brocade noise, Hamburg 1978
  • Fortunately gate, Hamburg 1980
  • Evening Crane, Hamburg 1981
  • Way to Japan, Hamburg 1983
  • Arch, Munich [u a ] 1986
  • Spaceship Japan, Munich [u a ] 1989
  • Carp dance, Munich 1994
  • Celestial signs, Munich 1998

Translations

  • The Tale of the Bamboo collectors and the girl Kaguya. Ebenshausen at Munich in 1968, see also Taketori Monogatari
  • The unlucky lucky the moon. In: Time, No. 50 /1969 meeting of the German edition of Taketori Monogatari ( The Tale of the Bamboo collectors and the girl Kaguya )
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