Yōko Ōta

Ōta Yōko (Japanese大田 洋子; born November 18, 1906 in Hiroshima Prefecture, † December 10, 1963 ) was a Japanese writer.

Ōta occurred in the 1930s with the first novels out like Sakura no kuni (桜 の 国, "Land of the Cherry Blossoms" ), for which she received in 1940 an award from the magazine Asahi Shimbun. Formative was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 she witnessed in the city for them. Based on this, they wrote in the same year Shikabane no machi (屍 の 街, "City of Corpses "); However, the publishers refused to publish it until 1948 and then only shortened. The incident occurred starting with this plant in the center of their literary work and made it into a major representative of the " atomic bomb literature ". This was followed by works such as Ningen ranru (人间 褴褛, "human (r ) shreds "; 1951, winner of the women's literature prize), Hotaru (ほたる, " Fireflies ", 1953) and Han ningen (半 人间, " half a man "; 1954). A four- volume complete edition of her works (大田 洋子 集, Ōta Yōko Shuu ) was published posthumously in 1981.