Yumiko Kurahashi

Kurahashi Yumiko (Japanese仓桥 由美子, Kurahashi Yumiko, real name: Yumiko Kumagai (熊 谷 由美子), born October 10, 1935 in Tosayamada (now Kami ), Kōchi Prefecture on Shikoku, † 10 June 2005) was a Japanese writer.

Life

After a school for dental hygiene visit Kurahashi studied French literature at Meiji University. Her debut novel Parutai appeared in 1960 in the Journal of the University and then in the literary magazine Bungakkai. He was awarded the Prize of the head of journalism at Meiji University (明 大 新闻 学长 赏) and nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. For the edition of the work Kumahashi awarded the 1962 women's literature prize. The following year she won the Tamura Toshiko - Prize.

In subsequent years, published stories and novels with which Kurahashi distinguished himself as one of the most important representatives of the post- modern Japanese novel. After a break as a writer, in which they are her family and the education of their daughters devoted, she returned in the early 1980s with the collection of fairy tales Otana no tame no zankoku Dowa ( Cruel Fairy Tales for Adults) in the public back in which she claimed the concept of intertextuality sat fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm to classical Japanese poetry Konjaku monogatari and Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis to English folk tales and fairy tales related by Charles Perrault, Tanizaki Junichiro and Oscar Wilde wove with Greek myths.

In 1987, Kurahashi for the novel Amanon - koku ōkanki the Izumi Kyoka - Prize for Literature. It was published in 2006 in German translation under the title " The trip to Amanon ". A second collection of fairy tales ( ROJIN no tame no zanzoku Dowa ) put it before 2003. Towards the end of her life she turned to the translation of children's literature. A Neuübersitzung by Antoine de Saint- Exupéry's The Little Prince was published posthumously in 2005.

Works (selection)

  • Kurahashi Yumiko: The Journey to Amanon. Be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2006 ( Original title: Amanon - koku okan ki (アマノン 国 往還 記), translated by Monika Wernitz - Sugimoto, Hiroshi Yamane ), ISBN 978-3-86124-901-6, p 412
  • Kurahashi Yumiko: When the gods were still alive. In: The house with the Sunflowers: Two Anti tragedies. Theseus, Zurich 1991 ( Original title: Kamisama ga itakoro no hanashi (神 神 がゐ た ころ の 話), translated by Wolfgang E. Schlecht ), ISBN 3-859-36051-5, p 129
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