is a Japanese writer. Masuda attended the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where she obtained a diploma in plant immunology in 1973. She taught at the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine at Nihon University until 1980. Masuda's first story "Shigo No Kankei" was nominated for the new writer's prize in Shincho magazine. In 1983, she was nominated six times for the Akutagawa Prize. She also won the

Noma Award The Noma Prizes were established by Shoichi Noma, or in his honor. More than one award is conventionally identified as the ''Noma Prize''. Noma was the former head of Kodansha, the Japanese publishing and bookselling company. Kodansha is Japan's ...

for "Jiyū jikan" (1985), the Kyōka Izumi Prize for "Shinguru Seru" (1986) and the

Sei Itō , born , was a Japanese Literary modernism, Modernist writer of poetry, prose and essays, and a translator. Life Sei Itō was born in Matsumae, Hokkaido, Matsumae, Hokkaidō, under the name of Hitoshi Itō. After graduating from Otaru Higher Co ...

Prize for "Tsukuyomi" (2001).

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