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Yukiko Motoya
Bản cốc có hi tử
Born(1979-07-14)July 14, 1979(age 44)
Hakusan, Ishikawa,Japan
Occupations
Years active2000–present
Notable work
  • Irui konin tan
  • Nurui doku
  • Sōnan
  • Shiawase saiko arigatō maji de!
SpouseKite Okachimachi
Awards
Writing career
LanguageJapanese
Genre
Websitewww.motoyayukiko

Yukiko Motoya(Bản cốc có hi tử,Motoya Yukiko,born July 14, 1979)is a Japanesenovelist,playwright,theatre director,and former voice actress. She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including theAkutagawa Prize,theNoma Literary New Face Prize,theMishima Yukio Prize,the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, theKishida Kunio Drama Award,and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award. Her work has been adapted multiple times for film.

Early life and education[edit]

Motoya was born inHakusan, Ishikawa.[1]As a child she read mystery stories byAgatha Christie,Arthur Conan Doyle,andEdogawa Ranpo,as well as horrormanga.[2]After completing high school, Motoya moved toTokyoto study acting, and won a voice acting role in theHideaki Annoanime adaptation ofKare Kano,but switched her focus to writing after a teacher praised a short play Motoya wrote for the school's graduation ceremony.[3][4]She founded her own theater company, called Gekidan Motoyo Yukiko (Motoya Yukiko Theater Company), in 2000, and began writing and staging her own plays.[5]She appears in the ending sequences ofFLCLduring credits, in which she's listed as model.[6][7]

Career[edit]

Novelist[edit]

In 2002, prompted by a magazine editor's invitation, Motoya made her fiction debut with the short storyEriko to zettai(Eriko and Absolutely).[5]It became the title story of a 2003 collection published byKodansha.Her novelFunuke domo kanashimi no ai o misero(Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) was published in 2005. It was adapted into the 2007Daihachi YoshidafilmFunuke Show Some Love, You Losers!,starringEriko SatoandHiromi Nagasaku,which was shown at theCannes Film Festival.[8]

Motoya's novelIkiteru dake de ai(Love at Least),about an unemployed and apparently depressed woman's relationship with her boyfriend, was published in 2006 byShinchosha.Ikiteru dake de aiwas nominated for theAkutagawa Prize,[9]and was later adapted into a 2018 film of the same name.[10]Motoya's 2009 novelAno ko no kangaeru koto wa hen(That Girl's Got Some Strange Ideas) was nominated for the 141st Akutagawa Prize.[9]She was nominated a third time for her 2011 novelNurui doku(Warm Poison), about a woman who has a relationship with a pathological liar claiming to be a former high school classmate.[9][11]ThoughNurui dokudid not win the Akutagawa Prize, it won the 33rdNoma Literary New Face Prize.[12][13]Motoya subsequently won the 7th Kenzaburo Oe Prize for her 2012 collectionArashi no pikunikku(Picnic in the Storm),[14]and the 27thMishima Yukio Prizefor her 2013 novelJibun wo suki ni naru houhou.[15]

In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154thAkutagawa Prizefor her storyIrui konin tan(Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together.[16]At the prize ceremony the press commented on her mismatched socks, leading Motoya to admit that she had not expected to win, and had rushed to the prize ceremony without any special preparation.[17]The prize-winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year byKodansha.[18]

In 2018 a collection of Motoya's stories, translated into English by Asa Yoneda, was published under the titleThe Lonesome Bodybuilderin the United States.[19]It included a new translation ofIrui konin tanunder the title "An Exotic Marriage".[20]Writing forThe New York Times,Weike Wang praised Motoya's stories, noting that Motoya "wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes".[21]Nilanjana Roy, in her review for theFinancial Times,concluded that "Yukiko Motoya’s shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you".[22]

Playwright and director[edit]

Motoya continued writing and directing plays for her theatre company while also writing short stories and novels, and in 2006 she became the youngest person ever to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award for Best Play, which she received for her playSōnan(Distress).[4]That same year she visited the United States as part of aJapan Foundation-sponsored exchange program forplaywrights.[23]An English version of her playVengeance can Wait,translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, premiered in 2008 at the Best of Boroughs Festival in New York City.[24]In 2009 her playShiawase saiko arigatō maji de,about a woman who enters a couple's home and declares that she is the husband's mistress, won the 53rdKishida Kunio Drama Award.[25]A film adaptation ofRanbō to taiki(Vengeance Can Wait), directed byMasanori Tominagaand starringTadanobu Asano,Minami Hinase,andEiko Koike,premiered in Japan the next year.[26]

Media personality[edit]

Nobuko Tanaka ofThe Japan Timeshas called Motoya "the darling of Japanese media" for her frequent contributions to Japanese magazines, television, and radio.[4]From 2005 to 2006 Motoya was the Friday host forNippon Broadcasting System's late night radio showAll Night Nippon.[27][28]Starting in 2014 she was a regular host for Season 4 of theTBS Radioprogram "The Top 5".[29]As of 2017 she is co-host of theFuji TVdocumentaryseries7 Rules.[30]

Personal life[edit]

In 2013 Motoya married the poet, lyricist and film director Kite Okachimachi.[31]Her first daughter was born in October 2015.[32]

Recognition[edit]

Film and other adaptations[edit]

  • Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai o misero(Funuke, Show Some Love you Losers!), 2007[8]
  • Ranbō to taiki(Vengeance Can Wait), 2010[26]
  • Ikiteru dake de, ai(Love at Least), 2018[10]

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Eriko to zettai: Motoya yukiko bungaku daizenshū,Kodansha,2003,ISBN9784062119276
  • Funuke domo kanashimi no ai o misero(Funuke, Show Some Love you Losers!),Kodansha,2005,ISBN9784062129985
  • Zetsubo(Despair),Kodansha,2006,ISBN9784062133241
  • Ikiteru dake de, ai(Just Living is Love),Shinchosha,2006,ISBN9784103017714
  • Imaman Motoya Yukiko manga-ka intabyū & taidanshū,Komakusa Shuppan, 2007,ISBN9784903186511
  • Hontanichan,Ōta Shuppan, 2008,ISBN9784778311162
  • Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen(That Girl's Got Some Strange Ideas),Kodansha,2009,ISBN9784062156387
  • Nurui doku(Warm Poison),Shinchosha,2011,ISBN9784103017745
  • Guamu(Guam),Shinchosha,2011,ISBN9784101371726
  • Arashi no pikunikku(Picnic in the Storm),Kodansha,2012,ISBN9784062177047
  • Jibun wo suki ni naru houhou,Kodansha,2013,ISBN9784062184557
  • Irui konin tan,Kodansha,2016,ISBN9784062199001

Plays[edit]

Selected work in English[edit]

  • Vengeance Can Wait,trans. Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, Samuel French, 2012,ISBN9780573700187
  • "That Morning, When It", trans. Michael Staley,Words Without Borders,2012[36]
  • "The Dogs", trans. Asa Yoneda,Granta127, 2014[37]
  • "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. Asa Yoneda,Granta129, 2014[38]
  • "What I Felt by Exposing My Body",Wochi Kochi Magazine,2014[39]
  • "The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys", trans. Asa Yoneda,Catapult,2015[40]
  • "The Lonesome Bodybuilder", trans. Asa Yoneda,Electric Literature,2018[41]
  • The Lonesome Bodybuilder,trans. Asa Yoneda,Soft Skull Press,2018,ISBN9781593766788

References[edit]

  1. ^"Bạch sơn xuất thân ・ bản cốc さん, giới xuyên thưởng kỷ niệm thị lập đồ thư quán で được thưởng làm “Dị loại hôn nhân đàm” など２２ điểm ".Mainichi Shimbun(in Japanese). January 30, 2016.RetrievedSeptember 15,2018.
  2. ^Lang giếng, triều thế (February 26, 2010)."Tác gia の đọc thư nói đệ 100 hồi: Bản cốc có hi tử さん"[Author's Reading Path #100: Yukiko Motoya].WEB bổn の tạp chí(in Japanese).RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  3. ^""Giới xuyên thưởng" bản cốc có hi tử thị, アニメ thanh ưu は “もうやらない” 『 bỉ thị bỉ nữ の sự tình 』に biểu diễn ".Oricon News(in Japanese). January 19, 2016.RetrievedSeptember 15,2018.
  4. ^abcdTanaka, Nobuko (May 31, 2007)."Yukiko Motoya takes a satirical look at the 'Super No-Flat'".The Japan Times.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  5. ^ab"Authors: Yukiko Motoya".Books from Japan.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  6. ^"Yukiko MOTOYA on AnimeNewsNetwork".
  7. ^From credits during ending sequences.
  8. ^abSchilling, Mark (July 13, 2007)."Funuke Domo, Kanashimi no Ai o Misero".The Japan Times.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  9. ^abc"Đệ 154 hồi “Giới xuyên thưởng” に lung khẩu du sinh thị & bản cốc có hi tử thị ".Oricon News(in Japanese). January 19, 2016.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  10. ^abSchilling, Mark (October 31, 2018)."'Love At Least': There's a shadow looming over this tale of romance ".The Japan Times.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  11. ^"Warm Poison: Synopsis".Books from Japan.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  12. ^ab"Dã gian văn vân tân nhân thưởng qua đi được thưởng làm"(in Japanese).Kodansha.Archived fromthe originalon May 13, 2019.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  13. ^"Bản cốc có hi tử “ぬるい độc” が đệ 33 hồi dã gian văn vân tân nhân thưởng を được thưởng ".Diễn kịch ニュース(in Japanese). November 7, 2011.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  14. ^ab"Đại giang kiện Tam Lang thưởng bản cốc có hi tử さん đoản biên tập “Lam の ピクニック” ".Sankei Shimbun(in Japanese). May 27, 2013.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  15. ^"Tam đảo từ kỷ phu thưởng に bản cốc có hi tử さん sơn bổn thứ sáu lang thưởng に mễ trạch tuệ tin さん".Sankei Shimbun(in Japanese). May 26, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon November 14, 2019.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  16. ^"Yusho Takiguchi, Yukiko Motoya share Akutagawa Prize while Bumpei Aoyama wins Naoki Prize".The Japan Times.January 19, 2016.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  17. ^"Bản cốc có hi tử さん: Giới xuyên thưởng được thưởng は “エサ の ようなも の” アニメ thanh ưu についても ngữ る hội kiến một hỏi một đáp ".MANTAN Web(in Japanese). January 19, 2016.RetrievedDecember 3,2018.
  18. ^Trung điều, tỉnh bình (February 11, 2016)."Giới xuyên thưởng tác gia ・ bản cốc có hi tử が miêu き ra す “Người でなし” の mị hoặc と khủng bố ".Shūkan Gendai(in Japanese).RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  19. ^Gattig, Nicolas (November 3, 2018)."From violence to vulnerability, Yukiko Motaya enchants with 'The Lonesome Bodybuilder'".The Japan Times.RetrievedNovember 4,2018.
  20. ^Mohamed, Alana (November 25, 2018)."Yukiko Motoya's Surreal World of Alienated Characters".The Atlantic.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  21. ^Wang, Weike (November 21, 2018)."Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection".The New York Times.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  22. ^Roy, Nilanjana (November 16, 2018)."The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya — tales of the unexpected".Financial Times.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  23. ^Carl, Polly K. (June 20, 2008)."Presenter Interview: The Playwright's Center of Minneapolis"(PDF).The Japan Foundation.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  24. ^"Vengeance Can Wait".Performance Space New York. April 25, 2008.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  25. ^ab"53rd Kishida Kunio Drama Award goes to Ryuta Horai and Yukiko Motoya in a double awarding".The Japan Foundation Performing Arts Network. February 3, 2009.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  26. ^ab斉 đằng, từ kỷ tử (October 4, 2010)."『 loạn bạo と chờ thời 』 mỹ sóng, ao nhỏ vinh tử, sơn điền hiếu chi 単 độc インタビュー".Cinema Today(in Japanese).RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  27. ^Mục đuôi, tình hỉ (August 8, 2012)."インタビュー bản cốc có hi tử さん".Gaku-Gei Cafe(in Japanese). studio OJMM.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  28. ^"Bản cốc có hi tử の オールナイトニッポン".All Night Nippon(in Japanese).Nippon Broadcasting System.November 23, 2007.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  29. ^"“ザ・トップ５” シーズン４, まもなくスタートです! ".TBS Radio(in Japanese). September 29, 2014.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.
  30. ^"ドキュメンタリー tân phiên tổ に bản cốc có hi tử “Người khác の nhân sinh が biết りたくてしょうがない” ".Stage Natalie(in Japanese).Natalie.April 12, 2017.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  31. ^"Bản cốc có hi tử, làm từ gia の ngự đồ đinh 凧と kết hôn lạng thị ブログで báo cáo".Oricon News(in Japanese). May 9, 2013.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  32. ^"Người khí nhà soạn kịch の bản cốc có hi tử さんが１０ nguyệt に đệ １ con cái nhi ra sản “Tư そっくりだ” ".Hochi Entertainment(in Japanese). Sports Hochi. January 1, 2016. Archived fromthe originalon January 3, 2016.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  33. ^"Được thưởng làm một lãm"(in Japanese). Hakusuisha.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  34. ^"Tam đảo từ kỷ phu thưởng qua đi の được thưởng tác phẩm"(in Japanese).Shinchosha.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  35. ^"Giới xuyên thưởng được thưởng giả một lãm"(in Japanese). Nhật Bản văn học chấn hưng sẽ. January 1, 2018.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  36. ^Motoya, Yukiko (August 1, 2012)."That Morning, When It".Words Without Borders.Translated by Staley, Michael.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  37. ^Motoya, Yukiko (April 24, 2014)."The Dogs".Granta.Translated by Yoneda, Asa.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  38. ^Motoya, Yukiko (October 6, 2014)."Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing".Granta.Translated by Yoneda, Asa.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  39. ^Motoya, Yukiko (November 1, 2014)."What I Felt by Exposing My Body".Wochi Kochi Magazine.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.
  40. ^Motoya, Yukiko (October 29, 2015)."The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys".Translated by Yoneda, Asa.RetrievedJuly 3,2018.{{cite magazine}}:Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help)
  41. ^Motoya, Yukiko (November 21, 2018)."Alexandra Kleeman recommends" The Lonesome Bodybuilder "by Yukiko Motoya".Translated by Yoneda, Asa.RetrievedDecember 2,2018.

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