Sawako Ariyoshi
Sawako Ariyoshi (有 吉 佐 和 子jap, Ariyoshi Sawako, born January 20, 1931 in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, † August 30, 1984 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Ariyoshi began in 1949 a study of literature and theater in Tokyo that she completed in 1952. In 1959 she spent as a Rockefeller scholarship a year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She wrote both short stories and novels, plays and screenplays. Her works often deal with the domestic life in Japan and engage social problems. They were translated into English in the first place and so far only partly into German. Their most famous work is the historical novel Hanaoka Seishu no tsuma (German Kae and her rival, engl. The Doctor's Wife), which aims to highlight the experiments Hanaoka Seishūs to his mother and his wife and on the other hand the troubled relationship between the two women to each other.
In 1970, she was honored for Izumo no Okuni (出雲の阿国) the Grand Prize for Japanese literature.