Kuniko Mukōda
Kuniko Mukōda | |
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Born | Kuniko Mukōda November 28, 1929 |
Died | August 22, 1981 | (aged 51)
Cause of death | Plane crash |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | screenwriter, Novelist, Essayist |
Years active | 1952–1981 |
Kuniko Mukōda (向田 邦子, Mukōda Kuniko, November 28, 1929 – August 22, 1981) was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya."[1]
Life[]
Mukōda was born in Tokyo, and moved around Japan in her early life due to her father's job. After she graduated from Jissen Women's College (Jissen Women's University), she got a job at Ondori Company, a film publicity company, in 1952. In 1960, she left the company and became a screenwriter and radiowriter. On August 22, 1981, she died on Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 when it crashed in Taiwan.
Works[]
Some of her short stories are:
- The Name of The Flower
- Small Change
- I Doubt It
- The Otter
- Manhattan
- Beef Shoulder
- The Doghouse
- The Fake Egg
- Triangular Chop
- Mr. Carp
- Ears
- Half-Moon
- The Window
- Meeting Again
References[]
- ^ "直木賞受賞者一覧" [Naoki Prize Winners List] (in Japanese). 日本文学振興会. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
Further reading[]
- "Meeting Again" 再会 (Saikai) in Tokyo stories: a literary stroll, Lawrence Rogers (ed.), University of California Press, 2002
External links[]
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- 1929 births
- 1981 deaths
- Japanese essayists
- 20th-century Japanese novelists
- Japanese screenwriters
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Taiwan
- Japanese television writers
- Japanese women short story writers
- Writers from Tokyo
- Winners of the Naoki Prize
- 20th-century Japanese short story writers
- 20th-century essayists
- 20th-century women writers
- Women television writers
- 20th-century screenwriters
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