Rie Yoshiyuki


Rie Yoshiyuki was a Japanese poet and novelist. She won the Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize, the Women's Literature Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.

Biography

Early life

Her father was the author Eisuke Yoshiyuki. Her mother was Aguri Yoshiyuki, a beauty shop owner whose autobiography was adapted into an NHK television series. Her older brother Junnosuke was also a novelist and her older sister Kazuko is an actress. She graduated from the department of literature at Waseda University in 1961.

Career

Yoshiyuki's first poetry collection was published in 1963, titled Aoi Heya. She won the Tamura Toshiko Prize for another collection, Yume no Naka de, which was published in 1967.
Her children's novel Mahōtsukai no Kushan Neko was published in 1970 and won the 9th Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize. In 1981 she won the Akutagawa Prize for Chisana Kifujin. In 1989 she won the Women's Literature Prize for Kiiroi Neko''.
Yoshiyuki died in Tokyo on May 4, 2006 of thyroid cancer.

Recognition