Kuniko Mukōda

Kuniko Mukōda (向田 邦子, Mukōda Kuniko, November 28, 1929 – August 22, 1981) was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya."[1]

Life

Mukōda was born in Tokyo, and moved around Japan in her early life due to her father's job. After she graduated from Jissen Women's College (Jissen Women's University), she got a job at Ondori Company, a film publicity company, in 1952. In 1960, she left the company and became a screenwriter and radiowriter. On August 22, 1981, she died on Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 when it crashed in Taiwan.

Works

Some of her short stories are:

  • The Name of The Flower
  • Small Change
  • I Doubt It
  • The Otter
  • Manhattan
  • Beef Shoulder
  • The Doghouse
  • The Fake Egg
  • Triangular Chop
  • Mr. Carp
  • Ears
  • Half-Moon
  • The Window
  • Meeting Again
gollark: I mean, the only way it could work without that in a particularly useful way would be stupidly high-fidelity simulations of the Earth and all esolangs developers on it.
gollark: It's not workable, my server doesn't have an acausal logic processor yet.
gollark: Yes, why?
gollark: Also because they don't want people suing them for some evil reason if they try and run a Basilisk program and it goes wrong.
gollark: I mean, WHYJIT is probably horrifying enough that it's *possible* that some brains have been melted.

References
  1. "直木賞受賞者一覧" [Naoki Prize Winners List] (in Japanese). 日本文学振興会. Retrieved September 13, 2018.

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.