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Eimi Yamada

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Yamada Eimi

別名: 山田 双葉
ペンネーム: Eimi Yamada（Pen name used for literary works）

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1959-02-08 （Nakamaru-cho, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan）
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Nakamaru-cho, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan → Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan → Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan → Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan → Kanuma, Tochigi, Japan → Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan → Kichijoji, Tokyo, Japan

経歴

職業
Novelist, Manga artist, Essayist
活動期間
1985年〜
所属団体
Member of the Akutagawa Prize selection committee (from 2003)
影響を受けた人物
Boris Vian, Françoise Sagan
影響を与えた人物
Hitomi Kanehara, Risa Wataya, Rusuboy
ノミネート
Akutagawa Prize nominee (Bedtime Eyes), Akutagawa Prize nominee (Jesse's Spine), Akutagawa Prize nominee (Butterfly's Bound Feet)

学歴

Meiji University, Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Letters / Japanese Literature
学位: 中退
期間: 在学中に中退（～1981）
国: Japan
Member of the university manga club; left university in 1981 and began publishing works

受賞歴

Bungei Prize
1985
対象作品: Bedtime Eyes
主催: Bungeishunju
結果: 受賞
Naoki Prize
1987
対象作品: Soul Music Lovers Only
主催: Japan Literature Promotion Society
結果: 受賞
Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Award
1989
対象作品: The Classroom of Wind Burial
主催: Hirabayashi Taiko Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Women Writers' Literary Award
1991
対象作品: Trash
主催: Women Writers' Award Organization
結果: 受賞
Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize
1996
対象作品: Animal Logic
主催: Izumi Kyoka Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Yomiuri Literary Prize
2001
対象作品: A2Z
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize
2005
対象作品: Fumi Zekka (Flavor Exquisite)
主催: Tanizaki Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Noma Literary Prize
2012
対象作品: Gentleman
主催: Noma Cultural Foundation
結果: 受賞
Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award
2016
対象作品: Seisen Teruteru Bozu
主催: Kawabata Yasunari Award Committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Bedtime Eyes

1985年 Romance

Debut work portraying the love life and relationships of a young woman, including encounters with foreigners; caused controversy on release.

LoveRelations with foreignersUrban life
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Bedtime Eyes (1987)

Soul Music Lovers Only

1987年 Youth/Love novel

A love novel set against youth culture and music; winner of the Naoki Prize.

YouthMusicLove
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Soul Music Lovers Only (1988)

I Can't Study

1993年 Youth novel

A novel about the everyday lives and issues surrounding high school students and children; continues a lineage of youth-focused fiction.

High school studentsEducationBullying
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] I Can't Study (1996)

Animal Logic

1996年 Short story collection/fiction

A collection depicting various characters and relationships; winner of the Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize.

Human relationshipsSocial psychology

Flavor Exquisite (Fumi Zekka)

2005年 Short story collection

A short story collection portraying manual laborers; awarded the Tanizaki Prize.

LaborEveryday lifeSocial strata
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Sugar & Spice: Fumi Zekka (2006)
  • [Anime (short)] Yushoku (2013)

Gentleman

2011年 Fiction

A work focusing on interpersonal relations and inner life in middle age and beyond; winner of the Noma Literary Prize.

Middle ageRelationshipsLoneliness

全著作

  • Bedtime Eyes
  • Fingertips' Play
  • Jesse's Spine
  • Butterfly's Bound Feet
  • Harem World
  • Soul Music Lovers Only
  • Tropical Armchair
  • Canvas Coffin
  • I Am a Poikilotherm
  • I Am Beat
  • Freak Show
  • Kneel and Lick My Feet
  • The Classroom of Wind Burial
  • Safety Box
  • Notes After School
  • Nekketsu Pon-chan series
  • Make Me Sick
  • The Child in Old Age
  • Rabbit Disease
  • Son of Colors
  • Trash
  • 24/7
  • Nonfiction of the Inner World
  • Chewing Gum
  • I Can't Study
  • Verbs of Pleasure
  • 120% COOOL
  • Animal Logic
  • Bedtime Eyes, Fingertips' Play, Jesse's Spine (Shincho Bunko)
  • 4U
  • MAGNET
  • Amy Seds
  • Amy Shows
  • A2Z
  • Princess
  • Vodka Knit
  • PAY DAY!!!
  • Fumi Zekka
  • Free Grace
  • First Literature: Eimi Yamada
  • Study
  • Tiny Stories
  • Gentleman
  • I Might Die Tomorrow, and You
  • 4 Unique Girls: 63 Rules to Be the Lead of Your Life
  • The Wise Man's Love
  • Selected Short Stories
  • Kichijoji Days: Yummy Foods & Gossip
  • Tsumibito
  • First Crush
  • There Is Blood and Tears
  • Kichijoji Dreamin': Walking & Timid Corona
  • My Kotodama Drift Diary
  • Genealogy of Hadauma

翻案

  • Bedtime Eyes (film, 1987)
  • Soul Music Lovers Only (film, 1988)
  • I Can't Study (film, 1996)
  • Sugar & Spice: Fumi Zekka (film, 2006)
  • Yushoku (anime short, 2013)
  • The Wise Man's Love (film, 2016)
  • A2Z (film, 2023)

作風・主題

文体
Life-rooted realismWitty and meticulous proseAutobiographical elements
頻出モチーフ
LoveYouthChildren and high school studentsBullyingRelations with foreignersUrban life

評価・遺産

A prize-winning author (including the Naoki Prize) who has continued to influence younger Japanese writers. Her works, which portray society and everyday life from a lived perspective, are highly regarded and have become the subject of academic study.

引用

  • There was no correct answer among the choices.
    出典: Comment regarding university entrance exam question (essay/interview) (2001年)

豆知識

  • Nickname: "Pon-chan".
  • Debuted as a manga artist while at university under her real name Futaba Yamada.
  • Married Craig Douglas in 1990 (divorced 2006); remarried Ryosuke Kanou in 2011.
  • A passage from 'I Can't Study' was used as a text in the National Center Test for University Admissions.