Yoshie Wada

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Yoshie Wada (和田芳恵, Wada Yoshie, April 6, 1906 - October 5, 1977) was a Japanese novelist and critic.

Wada was born in Oshamambe, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Chuo University with a law degree. In addition to his novels in the naturalist tradition, he edited the diaries of Ichiyō Higuchi and Fumiko Hayashi. He received many of Japan's highest literary awards, including the 1941 Akutagawa Prize for Kakutō (The Fight), 1956 Japan Academy of the Arts award for Ichiyō no nikki (Diary of Ichiyō Higuchi), the 1963 Naoki Prize for Chiri no Naka, and the 1974 Yomiuri Prize for Tsugiki no dai.

Selected works

Higuchi Ichiyō, Chikuma Shobō, 1954
Hayashi Fumiko, Chikuma Shobō, 1961
Aijō no kiroku, Chikuma Shobō, 1969
Ichiyō tanjō, Gendai Shokan, 1969

References

Obituary, The Japan Foundation newsletter,
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