Yoshie Wada

{{Short description|Japanese novelist and critic}}

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{{nihongo|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 one of the 13th Japan Art Academy Prizes (1956) for {{nihongo|Diary of Ichiyō Higuchi|一葉の日記|Ichiyō no nikki}},{{cite web|url=http://www.geijutuin.go.jp/index.php?action_Award_Prize=1|language=japanese|title=歴代授賞者一覧|trans-title=List of Prize Winners|publisher=Japan Art Academy|access-date=September 13, 2018}} the 50th Naoki Prize (1963下) for {{nihongo||塵の中|Chiri no Naka}},{{cite web|url=http://www.bunshun.co.jp/shinkoukai/award/naoki/list.html|language=japanese|title=直木賞受賞者一覧|trans-title=Naoki Prize Winners List|publisher=日本文学振興会|access-date=September 13, 2018}} and the 26th Yomiuri Prize (1974) for {{nihongo||接木の台|Tsugiki no dai}}.{{cite web|url=https://info.yomiuri.co.jp/contest/clspgl/bungaku.html|language=japanese|title=読売文学賞|trans-title=Yomiuri Prize for Literature|publisher=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=September 13, 2018}}