Aiko Satō (writer)


Aiko Satō is a Japanese novelist.

Biography

The novelist Aiko Satō was born in Osaka in 1923. She is the second daughter of the novelist and the agnate half-sister of the poet.
Satō graduated the Kōnan Higher Girls' School.

Works

Satō published early works in the magazine Bungei Shuto. She wrote an autobigraphical novel, Aiko, which she followed eight years later with a biography of her father entitled Hana wa Kurenai and seven years after that with a book about her mother, Joyū Mariko.
Her works Sokuratesu no Tsuma and Futari no Onna, both published in 1963, earned a nomination for the Akutagawa Prize, and Kanō Taii Fujin was nominated for the Naoki Prize. She won the 61st Naoki Prize for Tatakai-sunde Hi ga Kurete, which portrays a woman's struggles with her incapable husband.

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