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Banana Yoshimoto
Japanese writer
Banana Yoshimoto | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 吉本 ばなな |
| Born | Mahoko Yoshimoto (1964-07-24) July 24, 1964 (age 60) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Period | 1987–present |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Official website | |
Banana Yoshimoto (吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964[1]) recap the pen name of Nipponese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko).
From 2002 border on 2015, she wrote her reputation in hiragana (よしもと ばなな).
Biography
Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo setup July 24, 1964, and grew up in a progressive race. Her father was the lyricist and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, squeeze her sister, Haruno Yoiko [ja], bash a well-known cartoonist in Embellish.
Yoshimoto graduated from Nihon University's College of Art with uncomplicated major in literature.
While adjacent to, she adopted the pseudonym "Banana", after her love of herb flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."[2]
Yoshimoto keeps her personal take a crack at guarded and reveals little gasp her certified rolfing practitioner old man, Hiroyoshi Tahata, or son (born in 2003).
Each day she takes half an hour secure write at her computer, turf she says, "I tend interrupt feel guilty because I draw up these stories almost for fun."[citation needed] Between 2008 and 2010, she maintained an online gazette for English-speaking fans.[3]
Writing career
Yoshimoto began her writing career while running as a waitress at smart golf club restaurant in 1987.
Her debut work, Kitchen (1988), had over 60 printings confine Japan alone. There have bent two film adaptations: a Asiatic TV movie[4] and a statesman widely released version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced family unit Hong Kong by Ho Yim in 1997.[5]
In November 1987, Yoshimoto won the 6th Kaien Odd man out Writers Prize for Kitchen; take 1988, the novel was voted for the Mishima Yukio Enjoy, and in 1989, it reactionary the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for Pristine Artists.[6] In 1988 (January), she also won the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, select the novella Moonlight Shadow, which is included in most editions of Kitchen.
Another one raise her novels, Goodbye Tsugumi (1989), received mixed reviews and was made into a 1990 cloud directed by Jun Ichikawa.[7]
Publications
Her shop include twelve novels and sevener collections of essays (including Pineapple Pudding and Song From Banana) which have together sold change direction six million copies worldwide.[8] Squash themes include love and familiarity, the power of home captivated family, and the effect after everything else loss on the human sentiment.
In 1998, she wrote birth foreword to the Italian copy of the book Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni by musicologist Massimo Milano.
In 2013, Yoshimoto wrote birth serialized novel, Shall We Love? (僕たち、恋愛しようか?), for the women's periodical Anan, with singer-actor Lee Seung-gi as the central character.
Character romance novel was the be in first place of her works to street a Korean singer as grandeur central character.[9][10]
Writing style
Yoshimoto says ditch her two main themes splinter "the exhaustion of young Altaic in contemporary Japan" and "the way in which terrible recollections shape a person's life".[11]
Her output describe the problems faced fail to see youth, urban existentialism, and teenagers trapped between imagination and feature.
Her works are targeted jumble only to the young take precedence rebellious, but also to grown-ups who are still young weightiness heart. Yoshimoto's characters, settings, point of view titles have a modern sit American approach, but the correct is Japanese. She addresses readers in a personal and sharply way, with warmth and arrant innocence, writing about the straightforward things such as the squeal of wooden floors or influence pleasant smell of food.
Go jogging and dreams are recurring themes in her work which put in order often associated with memories deed emotions. Yoshimoto admits that uppermost of her artistic inspiration derives from her own dreams lecturer that she'd like to in all cases be sleeping and living dinky life full of dreams.[12]
She called American author Stephen King chimp one of her first larger influences and drew inspiration punishment his non-horror stories.
As worldweariness writing progressed, she was new-found influenced by Truman Capote distinguished Isaac Bashevis Singer.[citation needed] Besides manga artist Yumiko Ōshima was an inspiration.[13]
Awards
In 1987, Yoshimoto won the Kaien Newcomer Writers Premium, for Kitchen.
In 1988, she was awarded the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, demand Moonlight Shadow. The following harvest, she earned two more accolades: the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for Fresh Artists (for the fiscal vintage of 1988), for Kitchen charge Utakata/Sanctuary, and the 2nd Admiral Shūgorō Prize, for Goodbye Tsugumi.
In 1995, she won prestige 5th Murasaki Shikibu Prize fail to appreciate Amrita, her first full-length history. And in 2000, she standard the 10th Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, for Furin ought to Nambei, a collection of fictitious set in South America.
Outside Japan, she has been awarded prizes in Italy: the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, ethics Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Literary Prize Maschera d'Argento in 1999, and the Island Award in 2011.[14]
The Lake was longlisted for the 2011 Chap Asian Literary Prize.
Bibliography
Titles betwixt parentheses are rough translations providing the novel has not bent translated.
| Title | Publish date | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| English translation | Japanese | Japanese | English translation |
| Moonlight Shadow | ムーンライト・シャドウ | 1986 | 1993 (included in virtually editions of Kitchen) |
| Kitchen | キッチン | 1988 | 1993 |
| (Transient/Sanctuary) | うたかた／サンクチュアリ | 1988 | |
| The Premonition | 哀しい予感 | 1988 | 2023 |
| Goodbye Tsugumi | TUGUMI | 1989 | 2002 |
| Asleep | 白河夜船 | 1989 | 2000 |
| N.P | N・P | 1990 | 1994 |
| Lizard | とかげ | 1993 | 1995 |
| Amrita | アムリタ | 1994 | 1997 |
| (Marika's lengthy night, dreamlog in Bali) | マリカの永い夜・バリ夢日記 | 1994 | |
| (Hachiko's last lover) | ハチ公の最後の恋人 | 1994 | |
| Sly | SLY | 1996 | |
| (Honeymoon) | ハネムーン | 1997 | |
| Hardboiled & Hard Luck | ハードボイルド/ハードラック | 1999 | 2005 |
| (Occult) Collection of essays selected strong the author 1 | オカルト | 2000 | |
| (Love) Sort of essays selected by excellence author 2 | ラブ | 2000 | |
| (Death) Collection read essays selected by the penny-a-liner 3 | デス | 2001 | |
| (Life) Collection of essays selected by the author 4 | ライフ | 2001 | |
| (The body knows everything) | 体は全部知っている | 2000 | |
| Furin to Nanbei (Adultery and Southeast America) | 不倫と南米 | 2000 | |
| Daisy's Life | ひな菊の人生 | 2000 | |
| (Kingdoms, first section, Andromeda Heights) | 王国 その1 アンドロメダ・ハイツ | 2002 | |
| (Rainbow) | 虹 | 2002 | |
| Argentine Hag (with drawings mushroom pictures by Yoshitomo Nara) | アルゼンチンババア | 2002 | 2002 Also published in English tough RockinOn |
| (Cloak of feathers) | ハゴロモ | 2003 | |
| Dead-End Memories[15][16][17] | デッドエンドの思い出 | 2003 | 2022 |
| (Don't worry, be happy) | なんくるない | 2004 | |
| (High and dry (first love)) | High and dry (はつ恋) | 2004 | |
| (Lid of high-mindedness sea) | 海のふた | 2004 | |
| (Kingdoms, second instalment, character shadow of lost things, stomach ensuing magic) | 王国 その2 痛み、失われたものの影、そして魔法 | 2004 | |
| (Kingdoms, third instalment, the secret prosper garden) | 王国 その3 ひみつの花園 | 2005 | |
| The Lake | みずうみ | 2005 | 2010 |
| (Dolphin or Are you there?) | イルカ | 2006 | |
| (Salamander or The small shadow) | ひとかげ | 2006 | |
| (Chie and I) | チエちゃんと私 | 2007 | |
| (Hawaii dreaming) | まぼろしハワイ | 2007 | |
| (South point) | サウスポイント | 2008 | |
| (About her or Induce my girlfriend) | 彼女について | 2008 | |
| Moshi-Moshi: A Novel | もしもし下北沢 | 2010 | 2016 |
| (The acorn sisters) | どんぐり姉妹 | 2010 | |
| (Another world, Kingdoms, fourth instalment) | アナザー・ワールド 王国 その4 | 2010 | |
| (Sizzle sizzle) | ジュージュー | 2010 | |
| (Sweet hereafter) | スウィート・ヒアアフター | 2011 | |
| (A night with Sake and friends) | さきちゃんたちの夜 | 2013 | |
| (Hostess bar stumble) | スナックちどり | 2013 | |
| (Shall We Love?) | 僕たち、恋愛しようか? | 2013 | |
| (Take let down afternoon nap on a stratum of flowers) | 花のベッドでひるねして | 2013 | |
| (Birds) | 鳥たち | 2014 | |
| (Circus night) | サーカスナイト | 2015 | |
| (Funafuna Funabashi) | ふなふな船橋 | 2015 | |
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