Nobuko Takagi
Japanese novelist
Nobuko Takagi (高樹 のぶ子, Takagi Nobuko; born April 9, 1946) is the professional name of Nobuko Tsuruta (鶴田 信子, Tsuruta Nobuko), a Japanese author. She has won the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, she has been named a Person of Cultural Merit, and her work has been adapted for film.
Biography
Takagi was born Nobuko Tsuruta in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 9, 1946. She graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Women's University, after which she worked at a publishing company for two years, married her first husband in 1971, and had a son. Takagi moved to Fukuoka in 1974, divorced her first husband in 1978 and married her second husband, a lawyer, in 1980.
Takagi started writing love stories and made her fiction debut in 1980 with Sono hosoki michi (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories Tôsugiru tomo (A Distant Friend, 1981), Oikaze (A Following Wind, 1982), and Hikari idaku tomo yo (光抱く友よ, To a Friend Embracing the Light). Hikari idaku tomo yo, a story about the emotional lives of two high school girls, won the 90th Akutagawa Prize.
Subsequent works continued to explore themes of romantic love in many forms, including innocent love, married love, extramarital affairs, and love triangles. Her 1994 novel Tsuta moe (蔦燃) won the inaugural Shimase Award for Love Stories.
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