Tomoka Shibasaki
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Career
Shibasaki was born in Osaka. She graduated from Osaka Prefecture University and held an office job for four years while writing fiction.[1] In 1999 she published her first short story, "Reddo, ierō, orenji, burū" ("Red, Yellow, Orange, Blue").[2] Her first novel, Kyō no dekigoto (A Day on the Planet), was published the next year. In 2003 Kyō no dekigoto was adapted by Isao Yukisada into a film of the same name.[3]
In 2006 Shibasaki won a MEXT Award for New Artists for Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City), which was then nominated in 2007 for the Akutagawa Prize, but did not win.[4] In 2010 she won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Nete mo samete mo, a first-person story about a woman who falls in love, loses her boyfriend, then meets a man who looks identical to her disappeared boyfriend but acts completely differently.[5][6] In 2014, after having her work nominated three more times for the Akutagawa Prize, Shibasaki finally won the 151st Akutagawa Prize for her novel Haru no niwa (Spring Garden).[7]
In 2016 the Japan Foundation sponsored her residency in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.[8] The following year, an English translation of her Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Haru no niwa was published by Pushkin Press under the title Spring Garden.[9] In 2018 Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's film adaptation of Nete mo samete mo, titled Asako I & II, entered the competition at the Cannes Film Festival.[10]
Recognition
- 2006 MEXT Award for New Artists for Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City)[4]
- 2010 Noma Literary New Face Prize for Nete mo samete mo[11]
- 2014 151st Akutagawa Prize (2014上) for Haru No Niwa (Spring Garden)[7]
Film adaptations
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- Asako I & II, 2018[10]
Bibliography
Books in Japanese
- Nijiiro to kun, Chikuma Shobo, 2015, Template:ISBN
- Haru no niwa (Spring Garden), Bungei Shunju, 2014, Template:ISBN
- Watashi ga inakatta machi de (In Cities Before My Time), Shinchosha, 2012, Template:ISBN
- Shudaika, Kodansha, 2011, Template:ISBN
- Birijian (Viridian), Mainichi Shinbun, 2011, Template:ISBN
- Nete mo samete mo, Kawade Shobo, 2010, Template:ISBN
- Dorīmāzu (Dreamers), 2009, Template:ISBN
- Hoshi no shirushi, Bungei Shojo, 2008, Template:ISBN
- Furutaimu raifu (Full-time Life), Kawade Shobo, 2008, Template:ISBN
- Shotokatto (Shortcut), Kawade Shobo, 2007, Template:ISBN
- Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City), Shinchosha, 2006, Template:ISBN
- Kyō no dekigoto (A Day on the Planet), Kawade Shobo, 2000, Template:ISBN
Selected work translated in English
- Spring Garden, trans. Polly Barton. Pushkin Press, 2017, Template:ISBN
- A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories trans. Polly Barton. Stone Bridge Press, February 15, 2025
References
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