Chiya Fujino, (藤野千夜, Fujino Chiya) (February 27, 1962 -), is a Japanese writer of literary fiction. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes. February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Literary fiction is a somewhat uneasy term that has come into common usage since around 1970, principally to distinguish serious fiction from the many types of genre fiction and popular fiction. ...
Fujino is a male-to-female transexual who reflects the difficulties of her own life journey in the characterisations of her writing. Many of her characters are social misfits in conflict with the conventions and mores of wider Japanese society. A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ...
Born in the city of Fukuoka, Fujino attended Chiba University. In the 1980s, she worked in a major Japanese publishing house before beginning her own writing career. Fukuoka can refer to several locations in Japan: Fukuoka Prefecture (ç¦å²¡çœŒ) Fukuoka City (ç¦å²¡å¸‚) in Fukuoka Prefecture Two towns in Japan are named Fukuoka (ç¦å²¡ç”º): Fukuoka in Toyama Prefecture and Fukuoka in Gifu Prefecture. ... Chiba University(千葉大学) is a national university in Chiba Japan. ...
"The Housewife and the Police Box" (English translation of "Shufu to koban"), included in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan's leading Contemporary Writers (translated by Giles Murray), IBC Publishing, 2004
"Her Room" (English translation of "Kanojo no heya"), included in Inside and Other Short Fiction - Japanese Women by Japanese Women Kodansha, 2006
The Akutagawa Prize (芥川龍之介賞 Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Shō) is Japans most prestigious literary award. ...
References
Print
"Preface" in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan's leading Contemporary Writers (translated by Giles Murray), IBC Publishing, 2004
Online
Japanese Fiction Project: Emerging Writers in Translation - English translation of Oshaberi kaidan [Chatty] and biographical note
News report concerning political controversy over Fujino's 2000 Akutagawa Prize
From teens to fifties; married, single, divorced; the high school girl, the career woman, the sex worker, the housewife, the mother — this anthology deals frankly and explicitly with a broad range of women's experiences, and showcases the very best of recent writing by Japanese women.
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