Biodata sawako ariyoshi biography

Sawako Ariyoshi was a Japanese writer, known for such works as The Doctor's Wife and The River Ki. She was known for her advocacy of social issues.
Ariyoshi Sawako (born Jan. 21, 1931, Wakayama City, Japan—died Aug. 30, 1984, Tokyo) was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer.
Sawako Ariyoshi was a Japanese writer, known for such works as The Doctor's Wife and The River Ki. She was known for her advocacy of social issues, such as the elderly in Japanese society, and environmental issues.

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Ariyoshi Sawako

1931-1984, born: Wakayama City, Japan
Novelist, Short Story Writer

Literary Reputation

From the late 1950s until her death in 1984, age 53, Ariyoshi Sawako was among the most popular and prolific of post-1945 Japanese writers. Her talent, even her genius, seemed apparent. Over a span of thirty years, she had received several important literary awards and been nominated for many others. She turned out best sellers as well. Indeed, at the time of her death, Japanese women writers were on the verge of a turnabout and for several years would take most of the major prizes for novels and short stories. Ariyoshi is almost certain to be mentioned in literary biographies as one of Japan’s most prominent postwar women authors. The question is whether critics today, Japanese and foreign, also choose to rank her among the greatest of all modern Japanese writers. In a work of popular biography, 1999, Mark Weston called her one of the thirty seven giants in all of Japanese history, not simply in literature. But in 2002, literary scholar Jay Rubin, in a more selective and

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Lao She (Chinese: 老舍; pinyin: Lǎo Shě, original name Shū Qìngchūn (舒庆春) (Sumuru in Manchu). (February 3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was a notable Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures of twentieth century Chinese literature, and is perhaps best known for his novel Camel Xiangzi or Rickshaw Boy (駱駝祥子) and the play Teahouse (茶館). He was of Manchu ethnicity.

Lao She was baptized at London Church in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans and the Church, he went to the University of London and became a lecturer at the School of Oriental Studies. While he developed his understanding of English literature, Christianity, and Western culture, he also witnessed how Westerners viewed the Chinese people. He developed his zeal and passion for strengthening China and educating youth. Tragically, he was severely criticized and humiliated in public by the Red Guards under the Cultural Revolution, and this persecution led to his suicide. Yasushi Inoue, Tsutomu Murakami, Sawako Ariyoshi, and other famous Jap

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Sawako Ariyoshi, the Japanese Simone de Beauvoir

©Kodansha/Aflo

Sawako Ariyoshi, born in 1931, was one of the leading Japanese writers of the 20th century. Her monumental success in post-war Japan was equalled by the controversies she created, as the themes she addressed in her novels turned the established codes of conservative Japanese society upside-down. These themes are, however, very relevant today.

The author was born in the coastal city of Wakayama, then left Japan at the age of six when her parents moved to Indonesia in 1937. Four years later, the family returned to Japan and took up residence in Tokyo. When Sawako finished college, she launched herself into the study of literature and theatre, her father being a big fan of kabuki, the traditional Japanese form of theatre. After completing a course at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, she headed to New York where she studied theatre, by invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Sawako Ariyoshi wrote some plays, but is better known for her novels. She began with Jiuta in 1956, the first in a long series for t