Shizuko Tōdō

Shizuko Tōdō, whose real name is Kumagai Masae, was born on 14 March 1949 in Hokkaidō. She first wrote poetry under her birth name, before turning to the novel under the pen name she has kept since. A novel of 1987 won her the Hokkaidō Shimbun literary prize and was shortlisted for the Naoki Prize; she won the latter the following year, at its hundredth awarding, for a story published in the autumn by Bungei Shunjū.

In the catalogue 1

• Novel熟れてゆく夏Shizuko Tōdō · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature