Rie Yoshiyuki Explained

Rie Yoshiyuki
Native Name:吉行理恵
Native Name Lang:Japanese
Birth Name:Rieko Yoshiyuki
Birth Date:8 July 1939
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Death Place:Tokyo, Japan
Occupation:Writer
Language:Japanese
Nationality:Japanese
Alma Mater:Waseda University
Notableworks:
  • Yume no naka de
  • Mahōtsukai no Kushan Neko
  • Chiisana Kifujin
  • Kiiroi Neko
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was a Japanese writer of short stories, novels and poetry.[1] She was awarded the Noma Children's Literature Newcomer Award, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Women's Literature Prize.[2] [3]

Biography

Yoshiyuki was born in Tokyo as the third child of writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki and his wife Aguri, a prominent beautician. She graduated from the department of Japanese literature at Waseda University in 1961.

Her first poetry collection titled was published in 1963. Her 1967 poetry collection won her the Tamura Toshiko Prize.[4] In 1973, she published her short story about her father, who had died when she was only one year old. A collection of short stories titled followed in 1975.

Her children's story won her the Noma Children's Literature Newcomer Award.[5] [6] Other prize-winning works include [7] and .[8] Many of her stories have cats as characters or describe relationships between cats and humans, or draw upon childhood memories. Another recurring theme is the way people's cruel behaviour affects the lives of others.

Yoshiyuki died in Tokyo on 4 May 2006 of thyroid cancer.[9]

Her older brother Junnosuke was also a novelist, and her older sister Kazuko is an actress.

Selected works

Translations

Only few of Yoshiyuki's writings have been translated into English, these include her poems Carrying[10] and Sacrificial Victim,[11] and the short story The Little Lady.[12] Her short story was translated into German as Im Brunnen die Sterne.[13]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Book: Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck . Marlene R. Edelstein . Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . 1994 . Museum Tusculanum Press . 978-87-7289-268-9 . 247–249.
  2. Web site: 吉行理恵 (Yoshiyuki Rie) . ja . Kotobank . 28 July 2022.
  3. Web site: 芥川賞受賞者一覧 (List of Akutagawa Prize winners) . japanese . 日本文学振興会 (Bungei Shunju) . 28 July 2022.
  4. Web site: 夢の中で (In a dream) . ja . Kotobank . 28 July 2022.
  5. Web site: まほうつかいのくしゃんねこ (Sneezing cat, a magician) . ja . Kotobank . 28 July 2022.
  6. Web site: 野間文芸新人賞・野間児童文芸賞 (Noma Children's Literature Newcomer Award) . ja . Kodansha . 28 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090704222736/http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/noma-jido-bungei-shinjin.html . 4 July 2009.
  7. Web site: 小さな貴婦人 (Little lady) . ja . Kotobank . 28 July 2022.
  8. Web site: 黄色い猫 (Yellow cat) . ja . Kotobank . 28 July 2022.
  9. News: 吉行理恵さん死去／芥川賞作家、詩人 (Rie Yoshiyuki, Akutagawa Prize laureate, writer, poet, dies) . ja . Shikoku News . 8 May 2006 . 28 July 2022.
  10. Prism International . Carrying . Yoshiyuki . Rie . Kirkup . James (transl.) . 16 . 2 . 1977 . Vancouver.
  11. Book: The Burning heart : Women Poets of Japan . Sacrificial Victim . Yoshiyuki . Rie . Rexroth . Kenneth . Atsumi . Ikuko . Seabury Press . New York . 1977.
  12. Japanese Literature Today . The Little Lady . Yoshiyuki . Rie . Harcourt . Geraldine (transl.) . 7 . 1982 . Tokyo . Japan P.E.N. Club.
  13. Book: Erkundungen. 19 japanische Erzähler . Im Brunnen die Sterne . Yoshiyuki . Rie . Stalph . Jürgen . Volk und Welt . Berlin . 1989.

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