Aiko Satō (writer)
Japanese novelist
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Aiko Satō (佐藤 愛子, Satō Aiko; born 5 November 1923) is a Japanese novelist.[1]
Biography
The novelist[2] Aiko Satō was born in Osaka[2] in 1923.[2] She is the second child and only daughter of the novelist[3] Kōroku Satō,[2] the younger agnate half-sister of poet Hachiro Sato, and the elder agnate half-sister[2] of the playwright[3] Hachirō Satō.[2]
Satō graduated from Kōnan Higher Girls' School[2] (the precursor to the modern Konan Girls' Junior and Senior High School[citation needed]).
Works
Satō published early works in the magazine Bungei Shuto (文芸首都).[3] She wrote an autobiographical novel, Aiko (愛子, 1959),[3] which she followed eight years later with a biography of her father entitled Hana wa Kurenai (花はくれない, "The Flowers Are Red", 1967)[3][a] and seven years after that with a book about her mother, Joyū Mariko (女優万里子, "The Actress Mariko", 1974).[3]
Her works Sokuratesu no Tsuma (ソクラテスの妻, "Socrates' Wife") and Futari no Onna (二人の女, "Two Women"), both published in 1963,[3] earned a nomination for the Akutagawa Prize,[3] and Kanō Taii Fujin (加納大尉婦人, published 1964) was nominated for the Naoki Prize.[3] She won the 61st[4] Naoki Prize for Tatakai-sunde Hi ga Kurete (闘いすんで日が暮れて),[2] which portrays a woman's struggles with her incapable husband.[3]