Tsuneko Nakazato
Nakazato Tsuneko (Japanese中 里 恒 子, real name: Nakazato Tsune; born December 23, 1909 in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, † April 5, 1987 in Zushi ) was a Japanese writer.
Life and work
Nakazato was born in Fujisawa, where she also attended the Yokohama Futaba- girls school. She married in 1928 and operated next to the housewife as a writer. 1939 Nakazato was (乘 合 马车, dt stagecoach ) awarded the first woman awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her debut album " Noriaibasha ". This story, as well as other works that followed, dealing with the topic of intercultural marriages.
It was followed by the birth of her daughter and a divorce from her husband. Her daughter married an American, what do you as a substance for the works Mariannu monogatari (まりあんぬ 物語, 1946) and Kusari ( "Chain", 1959) was used.
For Utamakura (歌 枕, 1973), in which it thematically concerned with aging, in the same year she received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. A year later she was awarded the Prize of the Japanese Onshi Academy of Arts, of which she was a member in 1983. In 1979 she was awarded the Women's Literature Prize for Tagasodesō (谁 袖 草).
Nakazato lived from 1932 in Zushi in Kanagawa Prefecture, where she died of colon cancer in 1987. Her grave is in the temple Engaku -ji in Kamakura.