Tomoka Shibasaki
{{Short description|Japanese writer}}
{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Tomoka Shibasaki
| native_name = {{nihongo2|柴崎 友香}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|10|20}}
| birth_place = Osaka, Japan
| occupation = Novelist
| language = Japanese
| genre = Fiction
| alma_mater = Osaka Prefecture University
| notableworks = {{plainlist|
- Haru no niwa ({{nihongo2|春の庭}})
- Sono machi no ima wa ({{nihongo2|その街の今は}})
- Kyō no dekigoto ({{nihongo2|きょうのできごと}})}}
| awards = {{plainlist|
- Akutagawa Prize
- Noma Literary New Face Prize
- MEXT Award for New Artists
- }}
| website = [http://shiba-to.com/ Novelist: Tomoka Shibasaki]
}}
{{nihongo|Tomoka Shibasaki|柴崎 友香|Shibasaki Tomoka|born October 20, 1973}} is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and two of her works have been adapted for film.
Career
Shibasaki was born in Osaka. She graduated from Osaka Prefecture University and held an office job for four years while writing fiction.{{cite web|url=https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/japanamerica-writers-dialogue|title=Japan/America: Writers' Dialogue|work=Asia Society|date=9 June 2017 |access-date=June 17, 2018}} In 1999 she published her first short story, "Reddo, ierō, orenji, burū" ("Red, Yellow, Orange, Blue").{{cite web|url=http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/1796-tomoka-shibasaki|title=Tomoka Shibasaki|work=Books from Japan|access-date=June 17, 2018}} Her first novel, Kyō no dekigoto (A Day on the Planet), was published the next year. In 2003 Kyō no dekigoto was adapted by Isao Yukisada into a film of the same name.{{cite web|url=https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0001842|title=きょうのできごと a day on the planet |work=Cinema Today|access-date=August 27, 2018}}
In 2006 Shibasaki won a MEXT Award for New Artists for Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City), which was then nominated in 2007 for the Akutagawa Prize, but did not win. In 2010 she won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Nete mo samete mo, a first-person story about a woman who falls in love, loses her boyfriend, then meets a man who looks identical to her disappeared boyfriend but acts completely differently.{{cite web|url=https://www.cinra.net/news/2010/11/05/204832|language=japanese|title=野間三賞の受賞作品がそれぞれ発表、野間文芸新人賞に柴崎友香と円城塔|website=Cinra.net|date=November 5, 2010|access-date=August 27, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/05/films/ryusuke-hamaguchis-cannes-submission-tackles-difficulties-relationships/|title=Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Cannes submission tackles the difficulties of relationships|work=The Japan Times|first=Mark|last=Schilling|date=September 5, 2018|access-date=September 7, 2018}} In 2014, after having her work nominated three more times for the Akutagawa Prize, Shibasaki finally won the 151st Akutagawa Prize for her novel Haru no niwa (Spring Garden).{{cite news|newspaper=The Japan Times|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/17/national/akutagawa-naoki-literary-awards-go-shibasaki-kurokawa/#.U8i4-VZguns|date=July 17, 2014|title=Akutagawa, Naoki literary awards go to Shibasaki, Kurokawa|accessdate=July 18, 2014}}
In 2016 the Japan Foundation sponsored her residency in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.{{cite web|url=https://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/tomoka-shibasaki|title=SHIBASAKI Tomoka|work=International Writing Program|access-date=June 17, 2018}} The following year, an English translation of her Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Haru no niwa was published by Pushkin Press under the title Spring Garden.{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/06/10/books/book-reviews/spring-garden-masterful-look-loneliness-malaise-tokyo/|title='Spring Garden': A masterful look at loneliness and malaise in Tokyo|work=The Japan Times|last=Moloney|first=Iain|date=June 10, 2017|access-date=June 18, 2018}} In 2018 Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's film adaptation of Nete mo samete mo, titled Asako I & II, entered the competition at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/asako-i-ii-netemo-sametemo-film-review-cannes-2018-1111789|title='Asako I & II' ('Netemo sametemo'): Film Review Cannes 2018|work=The Hollywood Reporter|last=Dalton|first=Stephen|date=May 14, 2018|access-date=June 17, 2018}}
Recognition
- 2006 MEXT Award for New Artists for Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City){{cite web|url=http://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/geijutsubunka/jutenshien/geijutsuka/sensho/pdf/rekidai_jushosha.pdf|language=japanese|title=芸術選奨歴代受賞者一覧（昭和25年度～）|work=Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan|access-date=June 21, 2018}}
- 2010 Noma Literary New Face Prize for Nete mo samete mo{{cite web|url=http://www.kodansha.co.jp/about/nextgeneration/archive/22138.html|language=japanese|title=野間文芸新人賞|work=Kodansha|access-date=June 21, 2018}}
- 2014 151st Akutagawa Prize (2014上) for Haru No Niwa (Spring Garden)
Film adaptations
- {{nihongo|A Day on the Planet|きょうのできごと|Kyō no dekigoto}}, 2003
- Asako I & II, 2018
Bibliography
=Books in Japanese=
- Nijiiro to kun, Chikuma Shobo, 2015, {{ISBN|9784480432599}}
- Haru no niwa (Spring Garden), Bungei Shunju, 2014, {{ISBN|9784163901015}}
- Watashi ga inakatta machi de (In Cities Before My Time), Shinchosha, 2012, {{ISBN|9784103018322}}
- Shudaika, Kodansha, 2011, {{ISBN|9784062769068}}
- Birijian (Viridian), Mainichi Shinbun, 2011, {{ISBN|9784620107653}}
- Nete mo samete mo, Kawade Shobo, 2010, {{ISBN|9784309020051}}
- Dorīmāzu (Dreamers), 2009, {{ISBN|9784062156837}}
- Hoshi no shirushi, Bungei Shojo, 2008, {{ISBN|9784163274805}}
- Furutaimu raifu (Full-time Life), Kawade Shobo, 2008, {{ISBN|9784309409351}}
- Shotokatto (Shortcut), Kawade Shobo, 2007, {{ISBN|9784309408361}}
- Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City), Shinchosha, 2006, {{ISBN|9784103018315}}
- Kyō no dekigoto (A Day on the Planet), Kawade Shobo, 2000, {{ISBN|9784309407111}}
=Selected work translated in English=
- Spring Garden, trans. Polly Barton. Pushkin Press, 2017, {{ISBN|978-1782272700}}
- A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories trans. Polly Barton. Monkey, February 15, 2025
References
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External links
- [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/1796-tomoka-shibasaki J'Lit | Authors : Tomoka Shibasaki | Books from Japan] {{in lang|en}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081215164207/http://www.jlpp.jp/en/general/literary_200701.html Japanese Literature Publishing Project]
{{Akutagawa Prize winners}}
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