Chiya Fujino
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is a Japan
ese writer of literary fiction
. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes.
Fujino is a male-to-female transsexual who reflects the difficulties of her own life journey in the characterisations of her writing. Many of her characters are social misfits in conflict with the conventions and mores of wider Japanese society.
Born in the city of Fukuoka
, Fujino attended Chiba University
. In the 1980s, she worked in a major Japanese publishing house before beginning her own writing career.
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ese writer of literary fiction
Literary fiction
Literary fiction is a term that came into common usage during the early 1960s. The term is principally used to distinguish "serious fiction" which is a work that claims to hold literary merit, in comparison from genre fiction and popular fiction . In broad terms, literary fiction focuses more upon...
. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes.
Fujino is a male-to-female transsexual who reflects the difficulties of her own life journey in the characterisations of her writing. Many of her characters are social misfits in conflict with the conventions and mores of wider Japanese society.
Born in the city of Fukuoka
Fukuoka, Fukuoka
is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan.Voted number 14 in a 2010 poll of the World's Most Livable Cities, Fukuoka is praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan setting. It is the most populous city in Kyushu, followed by...
, Fujino attended Chiba University
Chiba University
is a national university in the city of Chiba, Japan. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University, and Yokohama National University.-Faculties:*Letters*Education*Law and Economics*Science...
. In the 1980s, she worked in a major Japanese publishing house before beginning her own writing career.
Selected works
- Gogo no jikanwari (Afternoon timetable), 1995? (Winner, 14th Kaien New Novelists Prize)
- Shonen to shojo no poruka [Boy's and Girl's Polka] Benesse Corporation, 1996; Kodansha, 2000 (paperback)
- Oshaberi kaidan [Chatty] Kodansha, 1998; paperback 2001 (Winner, 20th Noma New Writers Prize)
- Natsu no yakusoku [Summer promise] Kodansha, 2000 (Winner, 122nd Akutagawa PrizeAkutagawa PrizeThe is a Japanese literary award presented semi-annually. It was established in 1935 by Kan Kikuchi, then-editor of Bungeishunjū magazine, in memory of author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa...
) - Ruuto 225 [Route 225] Rironsha, 2002; Shinchosha, 2004 (paperback)
- "The Housewife and the Police Box" (English translation of "Shufu to koban"), included in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan's leading Contemporary Writers (translated by Giles Murray), IBC Publishing, 2004
- Bejitaburu haitsu [Vegetable apartment] Kobunsha, 2005
- "Her Room" (English translation of "Kanojo no heya"), included in Inside and Other Short Fiction - Japanese Women by Japanese Women Kodansha, 2006
- "Preface" in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan's leading Contemporary Writers (translated by Giles Murray), IBC Publishing, 2004
Online
- Japanese Fiction Project: Emerging Writers in Translation - English translation of Oshaberi kaidan [Chatty] and biographical note
- News report concerning political controversy over Fujino's 2000 Akutagawa Prize