Mizuko Masuda

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Mizuko Masuda
Native name
増田 みず子
Born13 November 1948
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
EducationTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Masuda Mizuko (増田 みず子, Masuda Mizuko, born 13 November 1948, in Tokyo) is a Japanese writer.[1]

Masuda attended the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where she obtained a diploma in plant immunology in 1973. She taught at the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine at Nihon University until 1980.[1]

Masuda's first story "Shigo No Kankei" was nominated for the new writer's prize in Shincho magazine. In 1983, she was nominated six times for the Akutagawa Prize. She also won the Noma Award for "Jiyū jikan" (1985), the Kyōka Izumi Prize for "Shinguru Seru" (1986) and the Sei Itō Prize for "Tsukuyomi" (2001).[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck; Marlene R. Edelstein (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900–1993. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-87-7289-268-9.
  2. ^ Scott J. Miller (2009). Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8108-6319-4.