TAKAHASHI TAKAKO

Takahashi Takako, nee Okamoto, is a novelist from Kyoto who graduated from Kyoto University in 1954 and married Takahashi Kazumi six months later. She began writing novels following Kazumi’s death from cancer in 1971 and has received many literary awards, including the Tamura Toshiko Prize for Sora no hate made (To the Edge of the Sky, 1972), the Women’s Literature Prize for Ronri uman (Lonely Woman, 1976), the Yomiuri Prize for Ikari no ko (Angry Child, 1985), and the Mainichi Art Prize for Kirei na hito (Beautiful Person, 2004). Takahashi has also translated numerous novels from French into Japanese.

See also FEMINISM; WOMEN IN LITERATURE.