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and social critic. She was awarded the 1968

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for ''Sanbiki no kani'' (Three Crabs), and the 1982

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for ''Katachi mo naku'' (寂兮寥兮). Ōba suffered a stroke in 1996 and died on May 24, 2007.

Selected works

* ''Sanbiki no kani'' (Three Crabs), 1968. * ''Funakuimushi'' (ふなくい虫), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1970. * ''Yūreitachi no fukkatsusai'', 1970 * ''Sabita kotoba'', 1971. * ''Shishu sabita kotoba'' (A Poetry Collection of Tarnished Words), 1971. * ''Tsuga no yume'', 1971. * ''Uo no namida'', 1971. * ''Kokyū o hiku tori'', 1972. * ''Yasō no yume'', 1973. * ''Aoi kitsune'', Tokyo : Kodansha, 1975. * ''Garakuta hakubutsukan'', 1975. * '' Yamauba no Bisho (The Smile of the Mountain Witch)'', 1976, * ''Urashimasō'', 1977. * ''Aoi chiisana hanashi'', 1978. * ''Samete miru yume'', 1978. * ''Hāna to mushi no kioku'', 1979. * ''Onna no danseiron'', 1979. * ''Taidan sei to shite no onna'', 1979. * ''Tankō'', 1979. * ''Katachi mo naku'' (寂兮寥兮), Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1982. * ''Shima no kuni no shima'' (島の国の島), Tokyo : Ushio Shuppansha, 1982. * ''Kakeru otoko no yokogao'' (駈ける男の横顔), Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1984. * ''Mae mae katatsumuri'' (舞へ舞へ蝸牛), Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1984. * ''Naku tori no'' (啼く鳥の), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1985. * ''Onna otoko inochi'' (女・男・いのち), Tokyo : Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1985. * ''Onna'' (女), Tokyo : Sakuhinsha, 1987. * ''Manʾyōshu'' (万葉集), Tokyo : Kōdansha, 1989. * ''Kaoru ki no uta : haha to musume no ōfuku shokan'' (郁る樹の詩: 母と娘の往復書簡), Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1992. * ''Nihyakunen'' (二百年), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1993. * ''Yuki'' (雪), Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1993. * ''Warabeuta mutan'' (わらべ唄夢譚), Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1995.

English translations

* ''Tarnished Words: The Poetry of Oba Minako'', translated by Janice Brown. EastBridge, Signature Books Series, 2005. . * ''Of Birds Crying,'' translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson. Cornell East Asia Series, 2011.

Bibliography

* ''Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako'', by Michiko Niikuni Wilson, M. E. Sharpe, 1998, .

External links

J'Lit , Authors : Minako Oba* , Books from Japan
Japanese women novelists 1930 births 2007 deaths Akutagawa Prize winners Social critics 20th-century novelists International Writing Program alumni {{Japan-writer-stub