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.
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| Native name | 柴崎 友香 |
| Born | October 20, 1973 Osaka, Japan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Osaka Prefecture University |
| Genre | Fiction |
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Career
Shibasaki was born in Osaka. She graduated from Osaka Prefecture University and held an office job for four years while writing fiction.[1] In 1999 she published her first short story, "Reddo, ierō, orenji, burū" ("Red, Yellow, Orange, Blue").[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5][6] 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).[7]
In 2016 the Japan Foundation sponsored her residency in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.[8] 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.[9] In 2018 Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's film adaptation of Nete mo samete mo, titled Asako I & II, entered the competition at the Cannes Film Festival.[10]
Recognition
- 2006 MEXT Award for New Artists for Sono machi no ima wa (Today, in that City)[4]
- 2010 Noma Literary New Face Prize for Nete mo samete mo[11]
- 2014 151st Akutagawa Prize (2014上) for Haru No Niwa (Spring Garden)[7]
Film adaptations
- A Day on the Planet (きょうのできごと, Kyō no dekigoto), 2003[3]
- Asako I & II, 2018[10]
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