Nobuko Takagi Explained

Native Name:高樹 のぶ子
Birth Name:鶴田 信子
Birth Date:9 April 1946
Birth Place:Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:Japanese
Alma Mater:Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Genre:Fiction
Notableworks:
  • Hikari idaku tomo yo
  • Tōkō no ki
Awards:

is the professional name of, a Japanese author. She has won the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, she has been named a Person of Cultural Merit, and her work has been adapted for film.

Biography

Takagi was born Nobuko Tsuruta in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 9, 1946.[1] [2] She graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Women's University, after which she worked at a publishing company for two years, married her first husband in 1971, and had a son. Takagi moved to Fukuoka in 1974, divorced her first husband in 1978 and married her second husband, a lawyer, in 1980.

Takagi started writing love stories and made her fiction debut in 1980 with Sono hosoki michi (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories Tôsugiru tomo (A Distant Friend, 1981), Oikaze (A Following Wind, 1982), and . Hikari idaku tomo yo, a story about the emotional lives of two high school girls, won the 90th Akutagawa Prize.

Subsequent works continued to explore themes of romantic love in many forms, including innocent love, married love, extramarital affairs, and love triangles. Her 1994 novel won the inaugural Shimase Award for Love Stories. Other examples include the 1993 novel , about two former lovers reunited when their daughters from their current marriages become injured in the same car accident,[3] the 1999 novel , which won the 35th Tanizaki Prize and was later translated into English by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, and the 2000 novel , about two lovers who find piece of music containing a hidden code that will help Romania achieve political freedom. In 2004 Takagi published , a novelized version of her autobiography that was later adapted into the 2009 movie Mai Mai Miracle starring Mayuko Fukuda.[4] In 2011 her story won the 36th Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize.

In 2008 Takagi was a Special Guest Professor at Kyushu University.[5] In 2018 she was named a Person of Cultural Merit.[6] Takagi is an Akutagawa Prize selection committee member.[7] She continues to live in Fukuoka.[8]

Recognition

Bibliography

Selected works in Japanese

Selected works in English

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. 1994. Museum Tusculanum Press. Sachiko. Schierbeck. Marlene. Edelstein. 9788772892689.
  2. News: 今年度の文化勲章と文化功労者. japanese. NHK. October 26, 2018. October 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101419/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news/20181026/0020508.html. October 27, 2018. dead. mdy-all.
  3. Web site: Authors: Nobuko Takagi. Books From Japan. October 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101537/http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/344-nobuko-takagi. October 27, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  4. News: 異例の草の根ヒットで6か月以上もロングラン中！. japanese. Cinema Today. April 23, 2010. October 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101252/https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0023921. October 27, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  5. Web site: SIA-DAY「高樹のぶ子と浸るモンゴル」開催. japanese. Kyushu University. October 16, 2008. October 26, 2018.
  6. News: 文化勲章に一柳慧氏ら　文化功労者に都倉俊一氏ら. japanese. Asahi Shimbun. 2018-10-26. 2018-10-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20181026064511/https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASLBM6G7LLBMUCLV00T.html. 2018-10-26. live.
  7. News: 「ほとんどケンカ状態の激しい対立があった」　芥川賞選考委員の高樹のぶ子さん会見詳報. japanese. Sankei Shimbun. July 19, 2017. October 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101251/https://www.sankei.com/life/news/170719/lif1707190044-n1.html. October 27, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  8. News: 文化功労者に福岡から２人. japanese. NHK. October 26, 2018. October 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101500/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/kitakyushu/20181026/5020001829.html. October 27, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  9. Web site: 芥川賞受賞者一覧. japanese. List of Akutagawa Prize Recipients. Bungeishunjū. 2018-10-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170102170358/http://www.bunshun.co.jp/shinkoukai/award/akutagawa/list.html. 2017-01-02. live.
  10. Web site: 島清恋愛文学賞 過去の受賞作品. japanese. Shimase Award for Love Stories, Past Winning Works. City of Hakusan, Ishikawa. October 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101310/http://www.city.hakusan.ishikawa.jp/kankoubunkabu/bunkasinkou/simase/simase_sakuhin.html. October 27, 2018. dead. mdy-all.
  11. Web site: 谷崎潤一郎賞. japanese. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Prize. Chuokoron-Shinsha. October 25, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180621142258/http://www.chuko.co.jp/aword/tanizaki/. June 21, 2018. live. mdy-all.
  12. Web site: 川端康成文学賞　過去の受賞作品. japanese. Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize, Past Winning Works. Shinchosha. October 25, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180827075230/http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/kawabatasho/archive.html. August 27, 2018. live. mdy-all.

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