Keiko Iwasaka

Keiko Iwasaka studied at Kwansei Gakuin University. The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is belletristic literature, Japanese literature and prose. Distinctions recorded are Murasaki Shikibu Prize, Kawabata award, Noma Literary New Face Prize and Hirabayashi Taiko Prize.

Iwasaki was born in Nara or Osaka, Japan on June 17, 1946. She began writing poetry in high school, and began writing novels after graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University. She is married to Takayuki Kiyooka. She won the Noma Literary Prize in 1986 for her novel 3=Mimoza no Hayashi de. Her 3=Gakka Koide Narashige no Shōzō won the Hirabayashi Taiko Prize in 1992. Her 1994 3=Yodogawa ni Chikai Machi kara won the Murasaki Shikibu Prize and the Geijutsu Senshō. She was awarded the 2000 Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award for her 3=Ame nochi Ame?. She also wrote two nonfiction works about the poets Shōhei Kiyama and Mokutarō Kinoshita. Reviewers wrote positively about both books.

• 3=Mimoza no Hayashi de, 1986 • 3=Gakka Koide Narashige no Shōzō, 1992 • 3=Yodogawa ni Chikai Machi kara, 1994 • 3=Ame nochi Ame?, 2000