Kikuko Tsumura
Kikuko Tsumura was born in Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan on January 23rd, 1978 and is the Japanese Novelist And Writer. At the age of 46, Kikuko Tsumura biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In her first job out of college, Tsumura experienced workplace harassment and quit after ten months to retrain and find another position, an experience that inspired her to write stories about young workers. In 2008 Tsumura won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for her book Myūjikku buresu yū!! (Music Bless You!!), and in 2009 her novel Potosu raimu no fune (The Lime Pothos Boat), about a young woman experiencing precarious work, won the 140th Akutagawa Prize. Japanese literature scholar Kendall Heitzman described The Lime Pothos Boat as a "triumph" that "carefully depicts with great nuance a small cast of characters with competing interests and desires." Tsumura's book Wākāzu daijesuto (Workers' Digest), published in 2011, won the 28th Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and in 2013 her short story "Kyūsuitō to kame" ("The Water Tower and the Turtle") won the 39th Kawabata Yasunari Prize. The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology recognized Tsumura's work with a New Artist award in 2016.
Tsumura's writing often employs Kansai-ben, a distinctive Japanese dialect spoken in Osaka and surrounding cities.
- 2005 21st Dazai Osamu Prize for Man'ītā (Maneater)
- 2008 30th Noma Literary New Face Prize for Myūjikku buresu yū!! (Music Bless You!!)
- 2008 26th Sakuya Konohana Prize
- 2009 140th Akutagawa Prize (2008下) for Potosu raimu no fune (The Lime Pothos Boat)
- 2011 28th Oda Sakunosuke Prize for Wākāzu daijesuto (Workers' Digest)
- 2013 39th Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Kyūsuitō to Kame (The Water Tower and The Turtle)
- 2016 MEXT Award for New Artists for Kono yo ni tayasui shigoto wa nai (There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job)
- 2017 27th Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize for Fuyūrei Burajiru (A Wandering Ghost in Brazil)