Aiko Satō (writer)

Aiko Satō (佐藤 愛子, Satō Aiko, born 5 November 1923) is a Japanese novelist.[1]

Biography

The novelist[2] Aiko Satō was born in Osaka[2] in 1923.[2] She is the second[3] daughter of the novelist[4] Kōroku Satō [ja][2] and the agnate half-sister[2] of the poet[4] Hachirō Satō [ja].[2]

Satō graduated the Kōnan Higher Girls' School[2] (the precursor to the modern Konan Girls' Junior and Senior High School [ja]^[citation needed]).

Works

Satō published early works in the magazine Bungei Shuto (文芸首都).[4] She wrote an autobiographical novel, Aiko (愛子, 1959),[4] which she followed eight years later with a biography of her father entitled Hana wa Kurenai (花はくれない, "The Flowers Are Red", 1967)[4][a] and seven years after that with a book about her mother, Joyū Mariko (女優万里子, "The Actress Mariko", 1974).[4]

Her works Sokuratesu no Tsuma (ソクラテスの妻, "Socrates' Wife") and Futari no Onna (二人の女, "Two Women"), both published in 1963,[4] earned a nomination for the Akutagawa Prize,[4] and Kanō Taii Fujin (加納大尉婦人, published 1964) was nominated for the Naoki Prize.[4] She won the 61st[3] Naoki Prize for Tatakai-sunde Hi ga Kurete (闘いすんで日が暮れて),[2] which portrays a woman's struggles with her incapable husband.[4]

Notes

1. Also titled Hana wa Kurenai: Shōsetsu Satō Kōryoku (花は紅―小説佐藤紅緑, "The Flowers Are Red: A Novel on Satō Kōryoku").[3]

References

Citations

1. Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck; Søren Egerod (1989). Egerod, Søren (ed.). Postwar Japanese Women Writers An Up-to-date Bibliography with Biographical Sketches. East Asian Institute, University of Copenhagen. p. 103.
2. Tanaka & Hashizume 2001; MyPaedia 2015.
3. MyPaedia 2015.
4. Tanaka & Hashizume 2001.

Works cited

• "Satō Aiko" 佐藤愛子. MyPaedia (in Japanese). Heibonsha. 2015. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
• Tanaka, Miyoko; Hashizume, Shizuko (2001). "Satō Aiko" 佐藤愛子. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2018-12-19.