YÅ«ko Tsushima
Yuko Tsushima (Japanese津 岛 佑 子, Tsushima Yuko, real name津 岛 里 子Satoko Tsushima; born March 30, 1947 in Mitaka located in Tokyo ) is a Japanese writer. She is the second daughter of writer Osamu Dazai, who died by suicide when she was a year old.
Life
Tsushima studied English literature at the Catholic University in Shirayuri woman Chōfu and later at Meiji University. During this time she began to write. At the age of 24, she published her first collection of short stories entitled Shaniku -sai (谢 肉 祭). In 1970 she married and gave her work at the Hoso Bangumi Center (放送 番組 センター, Hoso Bangumi Senta, English Broadcast Programming Center of Japan, in short. BPCJ ) on. Seven years later the divorce. 1985 her son died at the age of eight years.
Yuko Tsushima was honored with numerous literary awards. Her work is strongly autobiographical. They focus on experiences that has lived through the author herself: Growing up without a father, divorce, the life of a single mother, the death of their own child, etc.