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Banana Yoshimoto (吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko). From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana (よしもと ばなな).
Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author who achieved worldwide popularity writing stories and novels with slight action and unusual characters. Though her characters, settings, and titles were modern and influenced by American culture, they were unmistakably Japanese at the core.
Oct 5, 2023 · Banana Yoshimoto Wants Books to Give Her Insomnia. “I love it when I don’t have any plans the next day and end up reading until daybreak because I can’t sleep,” says the author, whose new ...
Banana Yoshimoto ( よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).) Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan.
Oct 8, 2023 · THE PREMONITION, by Banana Yoshimoto. Translated by Asa Yoneda. Happy families are all alike: They’re good at keeping secrets. Yayoi, the 19-year-old protagonist of Banana Yoshimoto’s “The...
Oct 17, 2015 · The fictional worlds of Banana Yoshimoto hinge between sleep and waking, fear and dream, loneliness and “the separateness of people.”. Her debut novel, Kitchen (1988), sold millions of copies...
Jan 30, 1988 · Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).) Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan.
Jul 30, 2022 · The five stories in Banana Yoshimoto’s collection “Dead-End Memories” — first published in Japan in 2003, it is her 11th book to be translated into English — are strange, melancholy and...
Sep 9, 2022 · In ‘Mama!’, the second story in Dead-End Memories, the latest collection of her short stories just out in English translation, Banana Yoshimoto’s narrator recalls the texture of what she ...
PROFILE. BANANA YOSHIMOTO Profile. Born July 24th, 1964 in Tokyo. Blood type: A. Graduated from Nihon University, Division of arts, majored in literature. With her first work, "Kitchen" she won the 6th Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize in November, 1987 and then the 16th Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize in October, 1988.
