KODA AYA

Koda Aya was a novelist and essayist and the second daughter of author Koda Rohan. Following her father’s death shortly after World War II, she began writing her memories of him in essays that were published and well received. She started writing novels and published Nagareru (Flowing, 1955), which established her status as an author and was later adapted into a film. She also published the novel Kuroi suso (1955; tr. The Black Kimono, 1970), which won the Yomiuri Prize.

See also FEMINISM; WOMEN IN LITERATURE.