Mori Mari

Mori Mari (Jap.森 茉莉; * January 7, 1903, † June 6, 1987 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer.

The daughter of writer Mori Ogai visited the Catholic mission school of the Order of Sœurs de Saint -Paul de Chartres. Sixteen year old, she married the romance languages ​​professor Yamada Tamaki, whom she accompanied 1922/23, on a study trip to Paris. The marriage was like a second divorce with the physician Akira Satō.

In 1957, she came out as a writer with the collection of essays Chichi no Boshi ( My father's hat). Another collection of essays, no Kutsu oto, appeared the following year. In 1959 she published her first short story Nōhaishoku no sakana. For the collection Koibitotachi no mori she was awarded the 1962 Tamura Toshiko Prize. This was followed by works such as Kareha no nedoko (1962), Zeitaku Bimbo (1963 ), Akuma no kotachi (1964) and the ironic self-portrait kichigai Maria ( 1967).

Appeared in 1968 the volumes of essays Watakushi no bi no sekai e no Kioku and until 1975 she worked on the trilogy of novels Amai mitsu no heya. In the same year she was awarded the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature -. In her later years, Mori published mainly literary criticism in various magazines.

Swell

  • Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. Tusculanum Museum Press, 1994, ISBN 978-87-7289-268-9, pp. 178-180.
  • Joshua S. Mostow: The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-231-11314-4, pp. 225-26.
  • Humboldt University of Berlin - Center for Japanese Language and Culture: The writer Mari Mori - Ôgais daughter.
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Essay
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1987
  • Woman
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