Nanae Aoyama

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Nanae Aoyama
Native name
青山 七恵
Born (1983-01-20) January 20, 1983 (age 41)
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
OccupationNovelist
LanguageJapanese
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tsukuba
GenreFiction
Years active2005-present
Notable works
  • Mado no akari (窓の灯)
  • Hitori biyori (ひとり日和)
  • Kakera (かけら)
Notable awards

Nanae Aoyama (青山 七恵, Aoyama Nanae, born January 20, 1983) is a Japanese fiction writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Bungei Prize, and the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, French, English and Italian.

Early life and education

Aoyama was born in

library science.[2][3]

Career

After graduating from university, Aoyama moved to Tokyo to take a job at a travel firm. She began writing her first novel, Mado no akari, while working full-time.[4] Mado no akari was published in 2005, and won the 42nd Bungei Prize.[1] In 2007 Hitori biyori, Aoyama's story about freeters working part-time jobs, won the 136th Akutagawa Prize.[4][5] After winning the Akutagawa Prize, Aoyama quit her office job to pursue writing full-time.[6] In 2009 she won the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize for her short story Kakera, which was published in a collection of the same name.[7] She was the youngest author ever to win the prize.[8] Watashi no kareshi, Aoyama's first full-length novel, was published in 2011.[6] In 2016 she collaborated with illustrator Satoe Tone on the children's book Watashi Otsuki-sama.

Writing style

Aoyama has cited Françoise Sagan and Kazuo Ishiguro as literary influences.[6][4] Literary scholar Judith Pascoe proposed that Wuthering Heights was a literary influence on Aoyama's work, particularly Meguri ito, and later confirmed this influence with Aoyama herself.[9]

Recognition

Bibliography

Japanese

English translation

  • A Perfect Day to Be Alone, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, MacLehose Press, 2024

References

  1. ^
    Asahi Shimbun
    (in Japanese). September 9, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  2. ^ "本学卒業の青山七恵さんが芥川賞を受賞". University of Tsukuba (in Japanese). Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  3. ^ 瀧井, 朝世 (July 1, 2017). "ら生まれたおちゃめな双子の物語". Weekly Bunshun (in Japanese). Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Hani, Yoko (March 4, 2007). "Nanae Aoyama: Office worker takes exalted literary status in her stride". The Japan Times. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  5. ^ "Akutagawa Prize awarded to Nanae Aoyama". Tokyograph. January 17, 2007. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016.
  6. ^ a b c "Nanae Aoyama". Books from Japan. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  7. ^ a b "第35回　川端康成文学賞受賞作品発表". Shinchosha Publishing (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 26, 2009.
  8. ^ Goto, Satoko (June 1, 2010). "Review: "Fragments" by Nanae Aoyama". Japanese Writers' House. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  9. ^ Pascoe, Judith (December 5, 2017). On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. p. 150.
  10. ^ "芥川賞受賞者一覧". 日本文学振興会 (in Japanese). Retrieved June 22, 2018.

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