Mieko Kanai

Mieko Kanai (Japanese金井 美 恵 子, Kanai Mieko, born November 3, 1947 in Takasaki ) is a Japanese writer.

Kanai began after attending the " Girls 'High School Takasaki Gunma Prefecture " (群 马 県 立 高崎 女子 高等学校, Eng. Girls' High School her hometown ) to write 1966 poems and short stories and was founded in 1967 with the story Ai no sekatsu ( life in love ), which appeared in the same year in the literary magazine Tembo, nominated for the Dazai Osamu - prize. The following year, the critically acclaimed stories Shizen no kodomo and Eonta appeared, and Kanai received for their lyrical works of the Gendaishi - techo - price. Your first book of poems she published in 1971 under the title Madamu Juju no ie ( The House of Madame Juju ).

1970 Kanais story Yume no jikan was (time of dreams ) nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. For the short story collection Puraton reki en'ai ( Platonic Love, 1979), she received the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature -. In 1985 her first novel kyōshitsu BUNSHO. For Tama -ya ( The cat Tama, 1987) Kanai was awarded the women's literature prize.

Swell

  • J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present. Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13804-8, pp. 168 et seq
  • Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. Tusculanum Museum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4, pp. 186-189.
  • Chieko Irie Mulhern: Japanese Women Writers: A Bio - Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-25486-9, pp. 175-184.
  • Zehn.de - Kanai Mieko
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1947
  • Woman
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