is a Japanese writer. She has won the Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize, the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, and the

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 Th ...

Early life and education

Daido was born in

Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since anc ...

, Japan and graduated from Fukuoka Central High School. Her father worked for the Japan Self-Defense Forces. She worked as a radio scriptwriter for several years before focusing on writing novels.

Career

In 2000 her first published story ' won the Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and was nominated for the

, but did not win. Two years later, after three more

nominations, Daido won the 128th

for ', a novel about a relationship between a younger woman and older man. In 2005 Taeko Tomioka selected Daido as the winner of the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize for '. An English translation of her short story "Milk" was published in the 2006 anthology ''"Inside" and Other Short Fiction''. Since 2011 Daido has contributed a regular column to the ''

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''. Daido has never married, and has claimed that marriage, children, or any particular sexual preference would constrain her ability to live her own life.

Recognition

* 2000 30th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize * 2003 128th

(2002下) * 2005 Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize

Works

In Japanese

* ', Kodansha, 2001, * ',

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Futabasha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Higashigokenchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.会社概要
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, 2005, * ',

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, 2005, * ', Shōgakukan, 2006, * ',

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, 2011, * ',

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, 2015,

In English

* "Milk", trans. Louise Heal Kawai, ''"Inside" and Other Short Fiction'', 2006

References

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