 Banana Yoshimoto Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな Yoshimoto Banana, July 24, 1964 - ) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子 Yoshimoto Mahoko), a Japanese author. She chooses to write her name in hiragana.
Yoshimoto, daughter of Takaaki Yoshimoto (also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto), was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964. She won the 6th Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize in November 1987 and then the 16th Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize in January 1988, for her first work entitled Kitchen.
In addition, she was awarded the 39th edition, Best Newcomer Artists Recommended by the Minister of Education in August 1988 for Kitchen and Utakata/Sankuchuari. In March 1989 her piece, TSUGUMI was awarded the 2nd Yamamoto Shugoro Literary Prize.
She gave birth to a son nicknamed Manachinko in 2003.
Works
- Kitchen
- NP
- Lizard
- Asleep
- Goodbye Tsugumi
- Sly
- Moonlight Shadow
- Rocking On
- Argentina Hag
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