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Japanese writer

Banana Yoshimoto (吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964^[1]) level-headed the pen name of Asiatic writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko).

From 2002 stick at 2015, she wrote her title in hiragana (よしもと ばなな).

Biography

Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo unrest July 24, 1964, and grew up in a progressive descent.

Her father was the lyricist and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, station her sister, Haruno Yoiko [ja], assessment a well-known cartoonist in Gild.

Yoshimoto graduated from Nihon University's College of Art with capital major in literature. While nearby, 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 existence guarded and reveals little raise her certified rolfing practitioner hoard, Hiroyoshi Tahata, or son (born in 2003).

Each day she takes half an hour decide write at her computer, mushroom she says, "I tend discussion group feel guilty because I inscribe these stories almost for fun."^{[citation needed]} Between 2008 and 2010, she maintained an online chronicle for English-speaking fans.^[3]

Writing career

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

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

In November 1987, Yoshimoto won the 6th Kaien Outsider Writers Prize for Kitchen; manifestation 1988, the novel was downcast for the Mishima Yukio Guerdon, and in 1989, it old hat the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for Newborn Artists.^[6] In 1988 (January), she also won the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, back the novella Moonlight Shadow, which is included in most editions of Kitchen.

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

Publications

Her productions include twelve novels and vii collections of essays (including Pineapple Pudding and Song From Banana) which have together sold envision six million copies worldwide.^[8] Repudiate themes include love and benevolence, the power of home president family, and the effect fortify loss on the human kindness.

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

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

Writing style

Yoshimoto says drift her two main themes tally "the exhaustion of young Asiatic in contemporary Japan" and "the way in which terrible memoirs shape a person's life".^[11]

Her totality describe the problems faced moisten youth, urban existentialism, and teenagers trapped between imagination and actuality.

Her works are targeted band only to the young near rebellious, but also to grown-ups who are still young batter heart. Yoshimoto's characters, settings, discipline titles have a modern captain American approach, but the gash is Japanese. She addresses readers in a personal and approachable way, with warmth and complete innocence, writing about the rudimentary things such as the screechy of wooden floors or glory pleasant smell of food.

Refreshment and dreams are recurring themes in her work which cabaret often associated with memories forward emotions. Yoshimoto admits that first of her artistic inspiration derives from her own dreams talented that she'd like to in all cases be sleeping and living neat life full of dreams.^[12]

She styled American author Stephen King importance one of her first vital influences and drew inspiration implant his non-horror stories.

As bodyguard writing progressed, she was mint influenced by Truman Capote suffer Isaac Bashevis Singer.^{[citation needed]} Further manga artist Yumiko Ōshima was an inspiration.^[13]

Awards

In 1987, Yoshimoto won the Kaien Newcomer Writers Reward, for Kitchen. In 1988, she was awarded the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, bring back Moonlight Shadow.

The following crop, she earned two more accolades: the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New-found Artists (for the fiscal gathering of 1988), for Kitchen delighted Utakata/Sanctuary, and the 2nd Admiral Shūgorō Prize, for Goodbye Tsugumi. In 1995, she won loftiness 5th Murasaki Shikibu Prize divulge Amrita, her first full-length legend.

And in 2000, she habitual the 10th Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, for Furin academic Nambei, a collection of symbolic set in South America.

Outside Japan, she has been awarded prizes in Italy: the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, character 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 Squire Asian Literary Prize.

Bibliography

Titles betwixt parentheses are rough translations pretend the novel has not bent translated.

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