Hiroko Takenishi

Hiroko Takenishi (竹西　寛子 Takenishi Hiroko?, 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]

References

  1. ^ Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata (1989). Postwar Japanese women writers: an up-to-date bibliography with biographical sketches. University of Copenhagen. pp. 132–134. OCLC 464055217. 
  2. ^ Treat, John Whittier (1996). Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. University of Chicago Press. pp. 77–79. ISBN 9780226811789.