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Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto . From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana.
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culture · Japanese writer (born 1964) · writer · short story writer · essayist · novelist · also Banana Yoshimoto, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto
Born 24 July 1964 · Q238970
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: Review: How Banana Yoshimoto’s “Goodbye Tsugumi” is an homage to the last summer of youth
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2023· 1 entry
ジャパンタイムズ: Banana Yoshimoto’s new book is a sickly sweet fantasy
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2022· 3 entries
The Hindu: Banana Yoshimoto’s touch: Japan in the everyday
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ジャパンタイムズ: Banana Yoshimoto’s ‘Dead-End Memories’ is the literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist
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Awarded Tanizaki Prize (2022).
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2021· 1 entry
Nikkei Asia: Banana Yoshimoto brings youthful bereavement to screen
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2013· 2 entries
Yoshimoto wrote the serialized novel, Shall We Love
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“s magazine Anan, with singer-actor Lee Seung-gi as the central character. The romance novel was the first of her works to feature a Korean singer as the central character. Writing style Yoshimoto says that her two main themes are”
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2011· 1 entry
The Nation: Banana Yoshimoto
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2002· 1 entry
AV Club: Banana Yoshimoto: Asleep
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award (2000).
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Received the 10th Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, for Furin to Nambei, a collection of stories set in South America
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1998· 1 entry
Wrote the foreword to the Italian edition of the book Ryuichi Sakamoto
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Murasaki Shikibu Prize (1995).
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Won the 5th Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Amrita, her first full-length novel
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1993· 1 entry
The Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Literary Prize Maschera d'Argento in 1999, and the Capri Award in 2011
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize (1989).
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1988· 4 entries
Awarded Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (1988).
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Was awarded the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, for Moonlight Shadow
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The novel was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize, and in 1989, it received the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists
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(January), she also won the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, for the novella Moonlight Shadow, which is included in most editions of Kitchen
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Kaien Shinjin Bungakusho (1987).
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Yoshimoto won the Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize, for Kitchen
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-07-24.
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