高树信子

高树信子（1948年4月9日—），日本女文学小说家，本名鹤田信子，出生于山口县防府市。曾获得第九十届芥川奖、第一届岛清恋爱文学奖、第三十四届女流文学奖以及第三十五届谷崎润一郎奖。

生平

高树信子高中毕业后投考大学落榜。翌年考上东京女子短期大学。这段休学期间，写了四万字小说《火的消失》，应征太宰治奖。第二篇小说写于大学在学期间。之后，直到1980年没写过小说。

1968年大学毕业后在出版社工作。1971年结婚。1974年虽然生下一个男孩，但因与丈夫感情不睦，而和丈夫的朋友发生婚外情，以致离婚。1978年与律师鹤田哲朗再婚，同年参加同仁杂志《灯》，决心当小说家。

发表于灯的第三篇小说《摇晃的头发》，于1980年2月，被《文学界》转载。踏出小说家第一步。同年12月发表的《那条小路》，首次被推举为芥川奖后补。其后发表的《疏远的朋友》、《顺风》陆续被推举为芥川奖后补。

1983年12月发表于《拥抱光的朋友》，获得第九十届芥川奖，为第一位战后出生的获奖女作家，颇受文坛期待。

之后，平均每年有一两本新书问世，虽有散文集和短篇小说集的出版，高树信子的写作重点在于长篇爱情小说。

芥川奖之外，1994年以《燃烧的长春藤》获得第一届岛清恋爱文学奖，1995年以《水脉》获得第三十四届女流文学奖，1999年以《透光之树》获得第三十五届谷崎润一郎奖。最新的作品，《百年的预言》，2000年2月15日出版上下两册。

除了上述代表作之外，《那条小路》、《染成蓝色时间》、《亿夜》三部曲颇受评论家注目。

2018年获颁文化功劳者。

作品

《火的消失》

《摇晃的头发》

《疏远的朋友》

《顺风》

《拥抱光的朋友》

《那条小路》

《燃烧的长春藤》

《水脉》

《透光之树》

《百年的预言》

《染成蓝色时间》

《亿夜》

《冰炎》

《热爱》

Nobuko Takagi (高樹 のぶ子, Takagi Nobuko; born April 9, 1946) is the professional name of Nobuko Tsuruta (鶴田 信子, Tsuruta Nobuko), a Japanese author. She has won the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, she has been named a Person of Cultural Merit, and her work has been adapted for film.

Biography

Takagi was born Nobuko Tsuruta in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 9, 1946. She graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Women's University, after which she worked at a publishing company for two years, married her first husband in 1971, and had a son. Takagi moved to Fukuoka in 1974, divorced her first husband in 1978 and married her second husband, a lawyer, in 1980.

Takagi started writing love stories and made her fiction debut in 1980 with Sono hosoki michi (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories Tôsugiru tomo (A Distant Friend, 1981), Oikaze (A Following Wind, 1982), and Hikari idaku tomo yo (光抱く友よ, To a Friend Embracing the Light). Hikari idaku tomo yo, a story about the emotional lives of two high school girls, won the 90th Akutagawa Prize.

Subsequent works continued to explore themes of romantic love in many forms, including innocent love, married love, extramarital affairs, and love triangles. Her 1994 novel Tsuta moe (蔦燃) won the inaugural Shimase Award for Love Stories. Other examples include the 1993 novel Hyōen (氷炎), about two former lovers reunited when their daughters from their current marriages become injured in the same car accident, the 1999 novel Tōkō no ki (透光の樹, Translucent Tree), which won the 35th Tanizaki Prize and was later translated into English by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, and the 2000 novel Hyakunen no yogen (百年の預言), about two lovers who find piece of music containing a hidden code that will help Romania achieve political freedom. In 2004 Takagi published Maimai Shinko (マイマイ新子), a novelized version of her autobiography that was later adapted into the 2009 movie Mai Mai Miracle starring Mayuko Fukuda. In 2011 her story Tomosui (トモスイ) won the 36th Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize.

In 2008 Takagi was a Special Guest Professor at Kyushu University. In 2018 she was named a Person of Cultural Merit. Takagi is an Akutagawa Prize selection committee member. She continues to live in Fukuoka.

Recognition

1984 90th Akutagawa Prize (1983下) for Hikari idaku tomo yo (光抱く友よ, To a Friend Embracing the Light)

1994 Shimase Literary Prize for Love Stories for Tsuta moe (蔦燃)

1999 35th Tanizaki Prize for Tōkō no ki (透光の樹, Translucent Tree)

2011 36th Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize

2018 Person of Cultural Merit