Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara (Japanese金原 ひとみ, Kanehara Hitomi, born August 8, 1983 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer. She made first attempts at writing in the early teens. It was supported by her father Kanehara Mizuhito, the translator of children 's literature and literature professor at the University of Tokyo. She lives in Tokyo 's Shinjuku district.

Life

For her first novel Hebi ni PIASU ( Tokyo Love ) Kanehara was awarded the Subaru Prize and the Akutagawa Prize in 2003. She was at the time of the award 20 years old and is the second youngest winner to date, after Wataya Risa, with whom she shared the latter 's price and was 19 years old during the ceremony. Tokyo Love was filmed in 2008 by Yukio Ninagawa.

In 2007, she took on a role as a voice actress in the anime film adaptation Kafka Inakaisha (カフカ 田舎 医者). Kanaharas literary works TokyoLove, and in 2006 published story Ōtofikushon (Obsession ) have appeared in German in Ullstein in the translation by Sabine Mangold.

In December 2010, Kanehara Hitomi was endowed with prize money of one million yen Odasaku - nosuke Prize of the Osaka - Literature Institute for her novel Trip Trap.

Selected Works

• 2003 Hebi ni PIASU (蛇 に ピアス), ISBN 4087746836 In English translation: Snakes and Earings. 2005, ISBN 0525948899
• In German Translation: Tokyo Love. List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3471795383

• In English translation: AUTO FICTION. 2007, ISBN 9780099515982
• In German translation: Obsession 2007, ISBN 9783550087172