Akane Chihaya | |
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Native name | 千早 茜 |
Born | Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan | August 2, 1979
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Japanese |
Alma mater | Ritsumeikan University |
Genre | Fiction |
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Akane Chihaya (千早 茜, Chihaya Akane, born August 2, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Shōsetsu Subaru New Writer Award, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Shimase Award for Love Stories, and the Naoki Prize.
Chihaya was born in Hokkaido in 1979. [1] From first grade through fifth grade Chihaya lived in Zambia, where her father, who was working for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, taught pathology at a university. [2] Her family returned to Japan, and Chihaya started writing poetry and keeping a diary while in high school. [3] Chihaya later graduated from Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. [4] After graduating from college she stayed in Kyoto and worked a variety of jobs at a cake shop, a medical office, and a museum. [3]
Chihaya made her literary debut in 2008 with Iogami (魚神, Fish God), a novel that won the 21st Shōsetsu Subaru New Writer Award as well as the 37th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, which is not usually awarded to a debut work. [5] [6] Her book Atokata (あとかた), a collection of short stories with common characters and the common theme of scarring, was published in 2013. [7] Atokata won the Shimase Award for Love Stories and was nominated for the 150th Naoki Prize, but did not win. [8] [9] In July 2013 Chihaya married her husband. [8] Her novel Otoko Tomodachi (男ともだち, Male Friends), about a woman in a sexless marriage who breaks off her affair with another man to reconnect with a male friend from her school days, was published in 2014. [10] Otoko Tomodachi was nominated for the 151st Naoki Prize, but the prize went to Hiroyuki Kurokawa. [11] [12]
Chihaya produced several books after her Naoki Prize nominations, including the 2016 dark fantasy novel Yoru ni Naku Tori wa (夜に啼く鳥は), [13] the 2017 novel Garden (ガーデン), about a male editor and his relationships with the women around him, [14] and the 2018 novel Tadashii Onnatachi (正しい女たち, Correct Women). [15] In 2023 Chihaya won the 168th Naoki Prize for Shirogane no Ha (しろがねの葉), sharing the prize with Satoshi Ogawa. [16]
Akane Chihaya | |
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Native name | 千早 茜 |
Born | Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan | August 2, 1979
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Japanese |
Alma mater | Ritsumeikan University |
Genre | Fiction |
Notable works |
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Notable awards |
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Akane Chihaya (千早 茜, Chihaya Akane, born August 2, 1979) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Shōsetsu Subaru New Writer Award, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Shimase Award for Love Stories, and the Naoki Prize.
Chihaya was born in Hokkaido in 1979. [1] From first grade through fifth grade Chihaya lived in Zambia, where her father, who was working for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, taught pathology at a university. [2] Her family returned to Japan, and Chihaya started writing poetry and keeping a diary while in high school. [3] Chihaya later graduated from Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. [4] After graduating from college she stayed in Kyoto and worked a variety of jobs at a cake shop, a medical office, and a museum. [3]
Chihaya made her literary debut in 2008 with Iogami (魚神, Fish God), a novel that won the 21st Shōsetsu Subaru New Writer Award as well as the 37th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, which is not usually awarded to a debut work. [5] [6] Her book Atokata (あとかた), a collection of short stories with common characters and the common theme of scarring, was published in 2013. [7] Atokata won the Shimase Award for Love Stories and was nominated for the 150th Naoki Prize, but did not win. [8] [9] In July 2013 Chihaya married her husband. [8] Her novel Otoko Tomodachi (男ともだち, Male Friends), about a woman in a sexless marriage who breaks off her affair with another man to reconnect with a male friend from her school days, was published in 2014. [10] Otoko Tomodachi was nominated for the 151st Naoki Prize, but the prize went to Hiroyuki Kurokawa. [11] [12]
Chihaya produced several books after her Naoki Prize nominations, including the 2016 dark fantasy novel Yoru ni Naku Tori wa (夜に啼く鳥は), [13] the 2017 novel Garden (ガーデン), about a male editor and his relationships with the women around him, [14] and the 2018 novel Tadashii Onnatachi (正しい女たち, Correct Women). [15] In 2023 Chihaya won the 168th Naoki Prize for Shirogane no Ha (しろがねの葉), sharing the prize with Satoshi Ogawa. [16]