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Japanese writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子; Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Women's Literature Prize, and the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize.
Tomoko Yoshida | |
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Born | Tomoko Kira February 6, 1934 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | writer |
Yoshida grew up in Shinkyō (currently Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo, in Manchuria.[1] Her father was a professional soldier who was taken to the USSR by Soviet troops at the close of World War II in 1945. Between 1945 and 1947, Yoshida was detained on the island of Karafuto (Sakhalin). Her mother brought her back to Japan, where Yoshida studied economics at Nagoya Municipal Junior Two-Year College for Women. She graduated in 1954 and worked as a high school teacher in Hamamatsu until 1960.[2][3] In 1957, she married teacher and writer Kira Nin'ichi.[3]
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