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Biography

Miyamoto was born in
Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, w ...
, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan and graduated from the faculty of letters at Otemon Gakuin University after which he became a copywriter. In 1970, he began to write his first novel and quit his job. Although he later joined another company, he quit again in 1972.


Bibliography

* ''Doro no Kawa'' (1977) * ''Hotarugawa'' (1978) * ''Kinshu'' (1982) Translated into English in 2005 with the title ''Kinshu: Autumn Brocade'' * '' Hana no Furu Gogo'' (1988) * In 1995 his novel ''Maboroshi no Hikari'' was made into a film by director Hirokazu Koreeda. The English release is entitled '' Maborosi''.


Prizes

*1977 Dazai Osamu Prize for ''Mud River'' (''Doro no Kawa'') *1978
Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History ...
for ''Firefly River'' (''Hotarugawa'') *1987 Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature for ''Yu-Shun''


Honors

*2020 Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette


External links

* Miyamoto Teru,
Muddy River
, translated and introduced by Andrew Murakami-Smith, ''The Asia-Pacific Journal'', Vol. 13, Issue 47, No. 1, December 7, 2015.
J'Lit , Authors : Teru Miyamoto , Books from Japan

Sencillez y frugalidad: de la belleza en la literatura
(Kinshu. Tapiz de otoño - en Español) 1947 births Living people People from Kobe Japanese writers Akutagawa Prize winners Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class {{japan-writer-stub