Minako Ōba
Born November 11, 1930, death May 24, 2007 was a Japanese author and social critic. She was awarded the 1968 Akutagawa Prize for Sanbiki no kani (Three Crabs), and the 1982 Tanizaki Prize for Katachi mo naku (寂兮寥兮). Ōba suffered a stroke in 1996 and died on May 24, 2007.
Also recorded as Minako Shiina
Minako Ōba
- Full name
- 椎名美奈子.
- Born
- 1930. · Tokyo Prefecture.
- Died
- 2007. · Urayasu.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- translator, novelist, writer, poet and literary critic.
- Fields
- poetry.
- Education
- Tsuda University.
- Honours
- Akutagawa Prize, Gunzou Prize for New Writers, Women's Literature Prize, Tanizaki Prize, Kawabata award and Yomiuri Prize.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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• 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.
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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.
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