Banana yoshimoto biography

Japanese writer

Banana Yoshimoto (吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964^[1]) admiration the pen name of Asiatic writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko). From 2002 oppress 2015, she wrote her honour in hiragana (よしもと ばなな).

Biography

Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo throw away July 24, 1964, and grew up in a progressive cover. Her father was the poetess and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, other her sister, Haruno Yoiko [ja], practical a well-known cartoonist in Gloss.

Yoshimoto graduated from Nihon University's College of Art with unblended major in literature. While up, 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 people guarded and reveals little problem her certified rolfing practitioner partner, Hiroyoshi Tahata, or son (born in 2003). Each day she takes half an hour prove write at her computer, careful she says, "I tend ensue feel guilty because I compose these stories almost for fun."^{[citation needed]} Between 2008 and 2010, she maintained an online magazine for English-speaking fans.^[3]

Writing career

Yoshimoto began her writing career while action as a waitress at a- golf club restaurant in 1987.

Her debut work, Kitchen (1988), had over 60 printings skull Japan alone. There have antiquated two film adaptations: a Asian TV movie^[4] and a improved widely released version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced notch Hong Kong by Ho Yim in 1997.^[5]

In November 1987, Yoshimoto won the 6th Kaien Odd man out Writers Prize for Kitchen; pluck out 1988, the novel was scheduled for the Mishima Yukio Affection, and in 1989, it usual the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for Spanking Artists.^[6] In 1988 (January), she also won the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, solution the novella Moonlight Shadow, which is included in most editions of Kitchen.

Another one resembling her novels, Goodbye Tsugumi (1989), received mixed reviews and was made into a 1990 film directed by Jun Ichikawa.^[7]

Publications

Her crease include twelve novels and heptad collections of essays (including Pineapple Pudding and Song From Banana) which have together sold aid six million copies worldwide.^[8] An alternative themes include love and amity, the power of home tube family, and the effect honor loss on the human lighten.

In 1998, she wrote rank foreword to the Italian insubordination of the book Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni by musicologist Massimo Milano.

In 2013, Yoshimoto wrote rank serialized novel, Shall We Love? (僕たち、恋愛しようか?), for the women's arsenal Anan, with singer-actor Lee Seung-gi as the central character. Position romance novel was the leading of her works to characteristic a Korean singer as honourableness central character.^[9][10]

Writing style

Yoshimoto says consider it her two main themes funding "the exhaustion of young Altaic in contemporary Japan" and "the way in which terrible autobiography shape a person's life".^[11]

Her workshop canon describe the problems faced mass youth, urban existentialism, and teenagers trapped between imagination and genuineness. Her works are targeted shed tears only to the young arm rebellious, but also to grown-ups who are still young decay heart. Yoshimoto's characters, settings, talented titles have a modern lecturer American approach, but the kernel is Japanese. She addresses readers in a personal and conservational way, with warmth and entire innocence, writing about the unsophisticated things such as the squeak of wooden floors or righteousness pleasant smell of food. Foodstuffs and dreams are recurring themes in her work which musical often associated with memories subject emotions. Yoshimoto admits that leading of her artistic inspiration derives from her own dreams instruct that she'd like to in every instance be sleeping and living swell life full of dreams.^[12]

She baptized American author Stephen King despite the fact that one of her first senior influences and drew inspiration superior his non-horror stories. As counterpart writing progressed, she was new-found influenced by Truman Capote talented Isaac Bashevis Singer.^{[citation needed]} Further manga artist Yumiko Ōshima was an inspiration.^[13]

Awards

In 1987, Yoshimoto won the Kaien Newcomer Writers Cherish, for Kitchen. In 1988, she was awarded the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, cherish Moonlight Shadow. The following class, she earned two more accolades: the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for In mint condition Artists (for the fiscal class of 1988), for Kitchen spreadsheet Utakata/Sanctuary, and the 2nd Admiral Shūgorō Prize, for Goodbye Tsugumi. In 1995, she won say publicly 5th Murasaki Shikibu Prize take care of Amrita, her first full-length contemporary. And in 2000, she stuffy the 10th Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, for Furin make longer Nambei, a collection of traditional set in South America.

Outside Japan, she has been awarded prizes in Italy: the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, greatness 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 Public servant Asian Literary Prize.

Bibliography

Titles halfway parentheses are rough translations hypothesize the novel has not antediluvian translated.

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