Tomoko Yoshida
Tomoko Yoshida is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Women's Literature Prize, and the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize.Early life and education
Yoshida grew up in Shinkyō, the capital of Manchukuo, in Manchuria. Her father was a professional soldier who was taken to the USSR by Soviet troops at the close of World War II in 1945. Between 1945 and 1947, Yoshida was detained on the island of Karafuto. Her mother brought her back to Japan, where Yoshida studied economics at Nagoya Municipal Junior Two-Year College for Women. She graduated in 1954 and worked as a high school teacher in Hamamatsu until 1960. In 1957, she married teacher and writer Kira Nin'ichi.Awards
- 1970 63rd Akutagawa Prize, '
- 1985 23rd Women's Literature Prize, '
- 1992 19th Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize, '
- 1998 27th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, '
Works (selection)
- 1970 Mumyōjōya
- 1971 Iki mono tachi
- 1971 Yoshida Tomoko sakuhin sen
- 1974 Neko no me, onna no me
- 1979 Inu no kōfuku
- 1980 Chichi no haka
- 1981 Watashi no ai no monogatari
- 1985 Manshū wa shiranai
- 1985 Kamo
- 1993 Osonae
- 1996 Sennen ōrai
- 1998 Hako no tsuma
- 2003 Nihon nanmin
