Hiroko Takenishi
Hiroko Takenishi (竹西 寛子 Takenishi Hiroko, Hiroshima, 11 April 1929 -) is a Japanese fiction writer and literary critic.[1] Takenishi is best known for her semi-autobiographical short story "The Rite" (1963), which tells of her experience surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima.[2] In 2012 she was named a Person of Cultural Merit for her writing.
References
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- ↑ Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata (1989). Postwar Japanese women writers: an up-to-date bibliography with biographical sketches. University of Copenhagen. pp. 132–134. OCLC 464055217.
- ↑ Treat, John Whittier (1996). Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. University of Chicago Press. pp. 77–79. ISBN 978-0-226-81178-9.
External links
- Hiroko Takenishi at J'Lit Books from Japan (English)
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