Mariko Asabuki

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Mariko Asabuki
Native name
朝吹 真理子
Born1984 (age 39–40)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationWriter
LanguageJapanese
GenreFiction
Notable works
  • きことわ (Kikotowa)
  • 流跡 (Ryūseki)
Notable awards

Mariko Asabuki (朝吹 真理子, Asabuki Mariko) is a

Vogue Japan
's 2011 Women of the Year.

Early life

Asabuki was born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, into a literary family that has lived in Tokyo since the

Meiji period.[1] Her father, Ryoji Asabuki, is a poet, and several other relatives are literary scholars and translators.[2] Asabuki started writing stories at the age of 3.[3] She attended an all-girls high school in Tokyo.[1]

Career

Asabuki entered graduate school at

Asahi Shimbun.[9] In 2018 Shinchosha
published TIMELESS as a book.

Asabuki's first nonfiction book, a collection of essays written within the previous decade, was published under the title Hikidashi no naka no Umi (lit. The Sea in the Drawer, 抽斗のなかの海) by Chuokoron-Shinsha in 2019. According to Asabuki, the title comes from a fantasy that the back of her desk drawer is connected to the sea, which helps her imagine her work reaching other people even when she writes alone.[10] Writing for the Yomiuri Shimbun, novelist Sayaka Murata described the book's essays as feeling almost like short stories, and the resulting work as a "treasure".[11]

Asabuki regularly collaborates with other writers, artists, and musicians to create site-specific multimedia performances using readings from her work.

Kenzaburo Oe, James Joyce, Mieko Kanai, and Roland Barthes as some of her favorite writers.[3][1] Asabuki is a fan of shogi.[14] She is married to designer Kōtarō Watanabe.[15]

Awards and honors

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c "東京の子。辛酸なめ子さんと朝吹真理子さんからみた「東京」" (in Japanese). Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  2. ^
    Japan Times
    . 19 January 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d "Women of the year 2011". Vogue Japan (in Japanese). 26 December 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. Japan Times
    . 13 February 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  5. OCLC 953422780
    . Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via WorldCat.
  6. ^ a b "Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award". Bunkamura. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Authors: Mariko Asabuki". Books from Japan. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  8. Asahi Shimbun
    (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  9. ^ 朝吹, 真理子. "＃明日何着よう" (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  10. Asahi Shimbun
    (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  11. ^ Murata, Sayaka (10 November 2019). "抽斗のなかの海…朝吹真理子著 中央公論新社". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2020. ほとんど小説のように感じられる短文の数々が、私には宝物に思え、この本のことはテーブルに放ったりできず、いつもそっと持ち上げる。
  12. ^ "Evening No. 6 – Mariko Asabuki along with Tomoko Sauvage, Timeless". Centre Pompidou-Metz. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  13. Japan Times
    . Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  14. ^ "新芥川賞作家、新境地の舞台に選んだのは…!?". TV Asahi News (in Japanese). TV Asahi. 26 February 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  15. ^ "芥川賞作家・朝吹真理子さん ７年の沈黙を破って世に問う「永遠」". Sankei News (in Japanese). 20 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  16. ^ "芥川賞受賞者一覧" (in Japanese). 日本文学振興会. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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