Minako Oba
Minako Ōba was a Japanese author and social critic.
She was awarded the 1968 Akutagawa Prize for Sanbiki no kani, and the 1982 Tanizaki Prize for Katachi mo naku.
Ōba suffered a stroke in 1996 and died on May 24, 2007.Selected works
- Sanbiki no kani, 1968.
- Funakuimushi, Tokyo : Kodansha, 1970.
- Yūreitachi no fukkatsusai, 1970
- Sabita kotoba, 1971.
- Shishu sabita kotoba, 1971.
- Tsuga no yume, 1971.
- Uo no namida, 1971.
- Kokyū o hiku tori, 1972.
- Yasō no yume, 1973.
- Aoi kitsune, Tokyo : Kodansha, 1975.
- Garakuta hakubutsukan, 1975.
- Urashimasō, 1977.
- Aoi chiisana hanashi, 1978.
- Samete miru yume, 1978.
- Hāna to mushi no kioku, 1979.
- Onna no danseiron, 1979.
- Taidan sei to shite no onna, 1979.
- Tankō, 1979.
- Katachi mo naku, Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1982.
- Shima no kuni no shima, Tokyo : Ushio Shuppansha, 1982.
- Kakeru otoko no yokogao, Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1984.
- Mae mae katatsumuri, Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1984.
- Naku tori no, Tokyo : Kodansha, 1985.
- Onna otoko inochi, Tokyo : Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1985.
- Onna, Tokyo : Sakuhinsha, 1987.
- Manʾyōshu, Tokyo : Kōdansha, 1989.
- Kaoru ki no uta : haha to musume no ōfuku shokan, Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1992.
- Nihyakunen, Tokyo : Kodansha, 1993.
- Yuki, Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1993.
- Warabeuta mutan, Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1995.
English translations
- Tarnished Words: The Poetry of Oba Minako, translated by Janice Brown, EastBridge, Signature Books Series, 2005,.
Of Birds Crying, translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson. Cornell East Asia Series, 2011.
