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Namie Hasebe

はせべ なみえ

Hasebe Namie

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1959 （Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Poet
Active Years
1983-

Awards

Yuriika (Newcomer)
1985
Category: 新人
Organization: Yuriika (magazine)
Result: 受賞
Gendai Shi Techo Prize
1988
Organization: Gendai Shi Techo (magazine)
Result: 受賞
Yamaguchi Poets' Association Newcomer Award
1989
Organization: Yamaguchi Poets' Association
Result: 受賞
Chuya Nakahara Prize (2nd)
1997
Work: Or, Lindbergh's Field
Organization: Chuya Nakahara Prize Committee / Yamaguchi City
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Or, Lindbergh's Field

1995 Poetry collection

A poetry collection built on images and memory. Features figurative landscapes and introspective pieces.

memorylandscapeintrospection

September Train

1999 Poetry collection

A collection that overlays seasonal feeling with images of travel. Focuses on sensory depiction.

seasonstraveltime

The Unknown Lovers

2001 Poetry collection

A poetry collection bearing an English title. Composed of fragmentary poems about love and otherness.

loveothernessfragments

Mahora Animal Dispatches

2007 Poetry collection

A collection of poems themed on animals and nature. Mixes humor with observational gaze.

animalsnatureobservation

Bibliography

  • Or, Lindbergh's Field (Shichosha, Dec 1995)
  • September Train (Shichosha, Oct 1999)
  • The Unknown Lovers (Midnight Press, Sep 2001)
  • Mahora Animal Dispatches (Bungeisha, Apr 2007)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
introspectiveimagisticmetaphor-driven poetry
Recurring Motifs
lonelinessnaturememory

Legacy

A female poet from Yamaguchi Prefecture who gained recognition from the 1990s onward. Known in regional and contemporary poetry contexts, notably as a Chuya Nakahara Prize winner.

Trivia

  • Reportedly began writing poetry in 1983.
  • Won the 2nd Chuya Nakahara Prize in 1997.
  • A poet originating from Yamaguchi Prefecture.