Seiko Tanabe

Seiko Tanabe (田辺 聖子, Tanabe Seiko, born March 27, 1928) is a Japanese author born in Osaka. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature of Shōin Joshi Senmon Gakkō (now Osaka Shoin Women's University). Author of numerous novels, she won the Akutagawa Prize, Yomiuri Prize, and Asahi Prize, and received the Order of Culture for her contributions to literature.^[1]

Prizes

• 1956 Osaka Citizen Award, for Niji ( 虹 )
• 1964 50th Akutagawa Prize for Kanshō ryokō ( 感傷旅行 )
• 1987 Women's Literature Award for Hanagoromo nuguya matsuwaru ... Waga ai no Sugita Hisajo ( 花衣ぬぐやまつわる......わが愛の杉田久女 )
• 1993 Eiji Yoshikawa Literature Prize, for Hinekure Issa ( ひねくれ一茶 )
• 1994 42nd Kan Kikuchi Prize, for Hinekure Issa
• 1998 26th Kyōka Izumi Literature Prize for Dōton-bori no ame ni wakarete irai nari - Senryū sakka Kishimoto Suifu to sono jidai ( 道頓堀の雨に別れて以来なり-川柳作家·岸本水府とその時代 )
• 1999 50th Yomiuri Prize for DDōton-bori no ame ni wakarete irai nari
• 2007 Asahi Prize

Awards

• 2000 Person of Cultural Merit
• 2008 Order of Culture

Selected works

Novels

• Hanakari (花狩) Touto shobou 1958
• Kanshou ryokou (Sentimental journey) (感傷旅行（センチメンタル・ジャーニィ）) Bungei shunjuu-sha 1964
• Onna no hidokei (女の日時計) Yomiuri shinbun-sha 1970
• Joze to tora to sakana-tachi (ジョゼと虎と魚たち Kadokawa shobou 1985
• Fukigenna koibito (不機嫌な恋人) Kadokawa shoten 1988
• Hinekure Issa (ひねくれ一茶) Koudan-sha 1992

Essays

• Onna no nagaburo (女の長風呂) Bungei shunjū 1973
• Eve no okurege (イブのおくれ毛) Bungei shunjū 1975
• Raamen nieta mo gozonjinai (ラーメン煮えたもご存じない) Shinchōsha 1977
• Rakurōshō 1, 2, 3, 4 (楽老抄) Shūeisha 1999, 2007, 2008, 2009

Translations and adaptations of classic Japanese works

• Mae mae, katatsumuri, Shin Ochikubo monogatari (舞え舞え蝸牛 新・落窪物語) Bungei shunjuu, 1977
• Shin Genji monogatari (新源氏物語) Shinchou-sha, 1978–79
• Shihon genji monogatari (私本・源氏物語) Jitsugyou-no-tomo-sha, 1980
• Haru no mezame wa Murasaki no maki, Shin shihon genji monogatari (春のめざめは紫の巻 新・私本源氏) Jitsugyou-no-tomo-sha 1983
• Mukashi akebono, shousetsu Makura no sōshi (むかし・あけぼの 小説枕草子) Kadokawa shoten 1983
• Tanabe Seiko no Ogura hyakunin isshu (田辺聖子の小倉百人一首) Kadokawa shoten 1986
• Tanabe Seiko no Kojiki (田辺聖子の古事記) Shuueisha, Watashi no koten 1986
• Kiri fukaki Uji no koi, Shin Genji monogatari (霧ふかき宇治の恋 新源氏物語) Shinchousha 1990

Biographies

• Hanagoromo nuguya matsuwaru ... Waga ai no Sugita Hisajo (花衣ぬぐやまつわる……わが愛の杉田久女) Shūeisha 1987
• Douton-bori no ame ni wakarete irai nari - Senryuu sakka Kishimoto Suifu to sono jidai (道頓堀の雨に別れて以来なり――川柳作家・岸本水府とその時代) Chūōkōronsha 1998

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