Nao-Cola Yamazaki Explained

Nao-Cola Yamazaki
Native Name:山崎 ナオコーラ
Birth Date:September 15, 1978
Birth Place:Kitakyushu, Japan
Birth Name:山崎 直子
Occupation:Writer
Language:Japanese
Alma Mater:Kokugakuin University
Period:2004–present
Children:2
Subject:Diversity, Categories
Notableworks:
  • Hito no sekkusu o warau na
  • Utsukushii kyori
Awards:

is the professional name of, a Japanese writer. They pride themselves on writing "things no one else can say in words anyone can understand". They have won the Bungei Prize and the Shimase Award for Love Stories. They have been nominated multiple times for the Akutagawa Prize, and their work has been adapted for film. Nao-Cola has chosen not to make their gender public, and has stated that their pronoun is singular "they".[1] They have two children.

Early life and education

Yamazaki was born in 1978 in Kitakyushu, Japan.[2] Shortly after their birth their family moved to Saitama Prefecture, where they were raised.[3] Yamazaki started writing fiction as a senior at Kokugakuin University, from which they graduated after writing a thesis on the character Ukifune in The Tale of Genji.[4] They chose the pen name "Nao-Cola" because they liked Diet Coke.

Career

Yamazaki made their literary debut in 2004 with, a story about a romantic relationship between a 19-year-old male student and his much older female teacher. Hito no sekkusu o warau na won the 41st Bungei Prize, an award recognizing new writers. The book was also nominated for the 132nd Akutagawa Prize.[5] Hito no sekkusu o warau na was later adapted into the 2008 Nami Iguchi film of the same name, starring Hiromi Nagasaku and Kenichi Matsuyama.[6]

Several of Yamazaki's subsequent novels were also nominated for the Akutagawa Prize., Yamazaki's 2007 novel about the relationships among people who meet at a beauty salon, was nominated for the 138th Akutagawa Prize and survived the first round of voting by the selection committee, but ultimately did not win, as the prize went to Mieko Kawakami.[7] Their story, later included in a 2009 collection of the same name, was nominated for the 140th Akutagawa Prize.[8], a romance novel about the relationship between a popular photographer and a photographer's assistant, was nominated for the 145th Akutagawa Prize.[9] In 2016 their novel was nominated for the 155th Akutagawa Prize, marking their fifth nomination for the award, but the award went to first-time nominee Sayaka Murata.[10] [11] Utsukushii kyori, a story about a married couple dealing with the wife's terminal cancer, subsequently won the 23rd Shimase Award for Love Stories.[12]

In addition to their fiction, Yamazaki also publishes essays on non-traditional family life, including the 2016 collection, a series of essays about living in a family where the wife is more successful than the husband.[13] [14] After having their first child at the age of 37, Yamazaki wrote a series of essays about the first year of their child's life. The resulting book,, was published in 2017.[15]

Yamazaki's first English-language book, a collection of short stories translated by Polly Barton, was published by Strangers Press under the title Friendship for Grown Ups in 2017. In a review for The Japan Society of the UK, Eluned Gramich noted that Yamazaki "seems more interested in the distance between lovers than in what unites them", but also called Friendship for Grown Ups "funny and clever".[16] The Japan Times praised Yamazaki's "skill in evoking the ambiguity of contemporary life" and called the collection "a small book that says a lot about the way we live today".[17]

Recognition

Works

Selected works in Japanese

Selected works in English

External links

Notes and References

  1. naocolayamazaki . Nao-Cola Yamazaki . 1295845137419923457 . August 18, 2020 . ja:私は性別非公表なので、性別が類推される主語は避けたい。. I choose not to officially state my gender, so I'd prefer not to be described using gendered pronouns..
  2. News: 山崎ナオコーラさん「反人生」 型にはまらず社会とつきあう. japanese. Sankei Shimbun. October 7, 2015. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122342/https://www.sankei.com/life/news/151007/lif1510070018-n3.html. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  3. Web site: 作家の読書道 第90回：山崎ナオコーラさん. japanese. Author's Reading Path, 90th edition: Nao-Cola Yamazaki. WEB本の雑誌. 瀧井. 朝世. April 8, 2009. October 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160629190641/http://www.webdoku.jp/rensai/sakka/michi090_yamazaki/20090428_1.html. June 29, 2016. live. mdy-all.
  4. News: 山崎ナオコーラさん 「母親だから」と気負わず生きる. japanese. Nikkei Style. 平野. 友紀子. November 8, 2017. October 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018082736/https://style.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO22355860X11C17A0000000. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  5. Web site: 人のセックスを笑うな. japanese. Wowow. October 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122407/https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/021048/001/02. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  6. News: 生々しさにドキドキ 「人のセックスを笑うな」. japanese. Asahi Shimbun. October 14, 2007. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122319/https://www.asahi.com/culture/movie/TKY200710100325.html. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  7. News: 芥川賞、直木賞 選考を振り返る. japanese. Looking back on the selection of the Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize. ENAK. Sankei Shimbun. January 21, 2008. October 17, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018082736/http://www.sankei.co.jp/enak/2008/jan/kiji/21life_akutagawa.html. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  8. News: 「人のセックスを笑うな」の山崎さん芥川賞候補に！. Japanese. Hito no sekkusu o warau na author Nao-Cola Yamazaki nominated for Akutagawa Prize. TV Asahi. January 5, 2009. October 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122359/https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/smt/f/geinou_tokuho/hot/?id=hot_20090105_110. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  9. News: 第145回芥川賞は1年半ぶり「該当者なし」 直木賞は池井戸潤氏『下町ロケット』. japanese. Oricon Career News. July 14, 2011. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018082740/https://career.oricon.co.jp/news/89859/. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  10. News: 芥川賞、直木賞 選考過程と講評. japanese. Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize Selection and Reviews. Sankei Shimbun. 高橋. 天地. July 25, 2016. October 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122343/https://www.sankei.com/life/news/160725/lif1607250019-n2.html. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  11. News: Convenience store worker who moonlights as an author wins prestigious Akutagawa Prize. The Japan Times. Daisuke. Kikuchi. July 20, 2016. October 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20190108040507/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/20/national/convenience-store-worker-who-moonlights-as-novelist-wins-prestigious-akutagawa-prize/. January 8, 2019. live. mdy-all.
  12. Web site: August 7, 2016. 『美しい距離』山崎ナオコーラ. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122359/https://www.sankei.com/life/news/160807/lif1608070026-n1.html. October 18, 2018. October 17, 2018. Sankei Shimbun. japanese. mdy-all.
  13. News: 私的本屋賞『かわいい夫』山崎ナオコーラ・著. japanese. Mainichi Shimbun. うめの. たかし. February 16, 2016. October 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122245/https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160216/org/00m/040/016000c. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  14. News: "勝ち負けのない世界"で小さな幸せを育む。山崎ナオコーラのエッセイ『かわいい夫』. japanese. Da Vinci News. 古澤. 誠一郎. May 3, 2016. October 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122352/https://ddnavi.com/news/299610/a/. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  15. News: ナオコーラさんの、所信表明。『母ではなくて、親になる』. japanese. Asahi Shimbun. 長谷川. 彩. February 26, 2018. October 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181017070252/https://www.asahi.com/and_w/articles/SDI2018022336711.html. October 17, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  16. Web site: Keshiki Series. The Japan Society of the UK. Eluned. Gramich. June 1, 2017. October 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180405115912/http://www.japansociety.org.uk/43075/keshiki-series/. April 5, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  17. News: 'Friendship for Grown-Ups' evokes the ambiguity of everyday life. The Japan Times. T. C.. Jones. January 12, 2019. January 14, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190112184309/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/01/12/books/friendship-grown-ups-evokes-ambiguity-everyday-life/. January 12, 2019. live. mdy-all.
  18. Web site: 文藝賞受賞作. japanese. Bungei Prize Winning Works. Kawade Shobō Shinsha. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180419165159/http://www.kawade.co.jp/bungeiawardn.html. April 19, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  19. News: February 16, 2017. 島清恋愛文学賞に乙川優三郎さん、山崎ナオコーラさん. japanese. Hokkoku Shimbun. dead. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218233827/http://www.hokkoku.co.jp/subpage/H20170216101.htm. February 18, 2017.
  20. Web site: The Beginning of the Long End. Yamazaki. Nao-Cola. Takami. Nieda. Asymptote Journal. December 3, 2013. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160402053730/http://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2013/12/03/yamazaki-beginning-long-end/. April 2, 2016. live. mdy-all.
  21. Web site: Cavities and Kindness. Yamazaki. Nao-Cola. Kalau. Almony. Words Without Borders. June 1, 2014. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018082705/https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/cavities-and-kindness. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  22. Book: The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction. Comma Press. 2015. 9781905583577. Michael. Emmerich. Jim. Hinks. Masashi. Matsuie.
  23. Web site: A False Genealogy. Yamazaki. Nao-Cola. Polly. Barton. Catapult Magazine. September 14, 2015. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122407/https://catapult.co/stories/a-false-genealogy. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  24. Web site: Fossil Candy. Yamazaki. Nao-Cola. Polly. Barton. The Arkansas International. 2017. October 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122304/https://www.arkint.org/naocola-yamazaki-trans-by-polly-barton-fossil-candy/. October 18, 2018. live. mdy-all.

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