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Kaho Nakayama (writer)
Kaho Nakayama (Japanese: 中山 可穂, born 1960) is a Japanese writer. Her debut novel, ''The Stoop-Shouldered Prince'' (猫背の王子, Nekoze no Ouji), was published in 1993, and her subsequent novels have won and been nominated for a number of Japanese literary awards including the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. In the 2015 edition of the ''Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia'', she was identified as "Japan's only contemporary self-identified lesbian novelist". Her short story, "Sparkling Rain", was the titular short story of Barbara Summerhawk's anthology of queer Japanese women writers, '' Sparkling Rain: and other fiction from Japan of women who love women.'' This short story, and a selection from her novel ''Sentimental Education'', translated by Allison Markin Powell, are her only works to have been translated into English. Life and works Nakayama was born in Nagoya in 1960 and graduated from the Faculty of Education at Waseda University's Department of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
The is a Japanese literary award established in 1988 in memory of author Shūgorō Yamamoto. It was created and continues to be sponsored by the Shinchosha Publishing company, which published Yamamoto's ''Complete Works''. The prize is awarded annually to a new work of fiction considered to exemplify the art of storytelling, by a five-person panel consisting of fellow authors. Winners receive ¥1 million. Unlike the Mishima Yukio Prize, which was established at the same time and focuses on literary fiction, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize is more broad, encompassing a wide range of genre fiction that includes historical and period fiction, mysteries, fantasy, erotica, and more. Candidate works and prize winners for both prizes are typically announced in May each year and covered in national print media. Notable winners have included Banana Yoshimoto, whose winning novel ''Goodbye Tsugumi'' was later published in English, erotic and romance novelist Misumi Kubo, and crime fiction and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |