Yukiko Motoya

Yukiko Motoya
Native name 本谷 有希子
Born (1979-07-14) July 14, 1979
Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan
Occupation
Years active 2000–present
Notable work
  • Irui konin tan
  • Nurui doku
  • Sōnan
  • Shiawase saiko arigatō maji de!
Spouse(s) Kite Okachimachi
Awards
Writing career
Language Japanese
Residence Tokyo, Japan
Genre
Website www.motoyayukiko.com

Yukiko Motoya (本谷 有希子, Motoya Yukiko, born July 14, 1979) is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress. She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award.

Biography

Motoya was born in Hakusan, Ishikawa.[1] After completing high school, Motoya moved to Tokyo to study acting, and won a voice acting role in the Hideaki Anno anime adaptation of Kare Kano, but switched her focus to writing after a teacher praised a short play Motoya wrote for the school's graduation ceremony.[2][3] She founded her own theater company, called Gekidan Motoyo Yukiko (Motoya Yukiko Theater Company), in 2000, and began writing and staging her own plays.[4] Her novel Funukedomo kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke, Show Some Love you Losers!) was published in 2005, and in 2007 it was adapted into a film of the same name that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.[5] From 2005 to 2006 Motoya was the Friday host for Nippon Broadcasting System's late night radio show All Night Nippon.[6][7]

In 2006 Motoya became the youngest person ever to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award in the Best Play category, for her play Sōnan (Distress).[3] That same year she visited the United States as part of a Japan Foundation-sponsored exchange program for playwrights.[8] An English version of her play Vengeance can Wait, translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, premiered in 2008 at the Best of Boroughs Festival in New York City.[9] In 2009 her play Shiawase saiko arigatō maji de, about a woman who enters a couple's home and declares that she is the husband's mistress, won the 53rd Kishida Kunio Drama Award,[10] and the next year a film adaptation of Ranbō to taiki (Vengeance Can Wait) premiered in Japan.[11]

Motoya's novel Nurui doku (Warm Poison) was published in 2011 and won the 33rd Noma Literary New Face Prize.[12][13] Her novel Arashi no pikunikku (Picnic in the Storm), published in 2012, won the 7th Kenzaburo Oe Prize in 2013.[14] Her novel Jibun wo suki ni naru houhou, published in 2013, won the 27th Mishima Yukio Prize the next year. In 2016, after previously being nominated three times for the Akutagawa Prize, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her book Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort).[15]

Nobuko Tanaka of The Japan Times has called Motoya "the darling of Japanese media" for her frequent contributions to Japanese magazines, television, and radio.[3] As of 2017 she is co-host of the Fuji TV documentary series 7 Rules.[16]

Personal life

In 2013 Motoya married the poet, lyricist and film director Kite Okachimachi.[17] Her first daughter was born in October 2015.[18]

Recognition

Film and other adaptations

  • Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke, Show Some Love you Losers!), 2007[5]
  • Ranbō to taiki (Vengeance Can Wait), 2010[11]

Bibliography

Books

  • Eriko to zettai : Motoya yukiko bungaku daizenshū, Kodansha, 2003, ISBN 9784062119276
  • Funukedomo kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke, Show Some Love you Losers!), Kodansha, 2005, ISBN 9784062129985
  • Zetsubo (Despair), Kodansha, 2006, ISBN 9784062133241
  • Ikiteru dake de, ai (Just Living is Love), Shinchosha, 2006, ISBN 9784103017714
  • Imaman Motoya Yukiko manga-ka intabyū & taidanshū, Komakusa Shuppan, 2007, ISBN 9784903186511
  • Hontanichan, Ōta Shuppan, 2008, ISBN 9784778311162
  • Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen (That Girl's Got Some Strange Ideas), Kodansha, 2009, ISBN 9784062156387
  • Nurui doku (Warm Poison), Shinchosha, 2011, ISBN 9784103017745
  • Guamu (Guam), Shinchosha, 2011, ISBN 9784101371726
  • Arashi no pikunikku (Picnic in the Storm), Kodansha, 2012, ISBN 9784062177047
  • Jibun wo suki ni naru houhou, Kodansha, 2013, ISBN 9784062184557
  • Irui konin tan, Kodansha, 2016, ISBN 9784062199001

Plays

  • Sōnan (Distress), Kodansha, 2007, ISBN 9784062140744
  • Henro, Shinchosha, 2008, ISBN 9784103017738
  • Shiawase saiko arigatō maji de! (I'm Happy, It's Fantastic, Thank you, Really!), Kodansha, 2009, ISBN 9784062153638
  • Rai rai rai rai rai, Hakusuisha, 2010, ISBN 9784560080801

Selected work in English

  • Vengeance Can Wait, trans. Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, Samuel French, 2012, ISBN 9780573700187
  • "That Morning, When It", trans. Michael Staley, Words Without Borders, 2012[22]
  • "The Dogs", trans. Asa Yoneda, Granta 127, 2014[23]
  • "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. Asa Yoneda, Granta 129, 2014[24]
  • "What I Felt by Exposing My Body", Wochi Kochi Magazine, 2014[25]
  • "The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys", trans. Asa Yoneda, Catapult, 2015[26]

References

  1. ↑ "白山出身・本谷さん、芥川賞記念　市立図書館で　受賞作「異類婚姻譚」など２２点". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). January 30, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ ""芥川賞"本谷有希子氏、アニメ声優は「もうやらない」『彼氏彼女の事情』に出演". Oricon News (in Japanese). January 19, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Tanaka, Nobuko (May 31, 2007). "Yukiko Motoya takes a satirical look at the 'Super No-Flat'". The Japan Times. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Authors: Yukiko Motoya". Books from Japan. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Schilling, Mark (July 13, 2007). "'Funuke Domo, Kanashimi no Ai o Misero'". The Japan Times. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ 牧尾, 晴喜 (August 8, 2012). "インタビュー　本谷有希子さん". Gaku-Gei Cafe (in Japanese). studio OJMM. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ "本谷有希子のオールナイトニッポン". All Night Nippon (in Japanese). Nippon Broadcasting System. November 23, 2007. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ Carl, Polly K. (June 20, 2008). "Presenter Interview: The Playwright's Center of Minneapolis" (PDF). The Japan Foundation. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Vengeance Can Wait". Performance Space New York. April 25, 2008. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  10. 1 2 "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. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  11. 1 2 斉藤, 由紀子 (October 4, 2010). "『乱暴と待機』美波、小池栄子、山田孝之　単独インタビュー". Cinema Today (in Japanese). Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  12. 1 2 "野間文芸新人賞 過去受賞作" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  13. ↑ "本谷有希子「ぬるい毒」が第33回野間文芸新人賞を受賞". 演劇ニュース (in Japanese). November 7, 2011. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  14. 1 2 "大江健三郎賞　本谷有希子さん　短編集「嵐のピクニック」". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). May 27, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Yusho Takiguchi, Yukiko Motoya share Akutagawa Prize while Bumpei Aoyama wins Naoki Prize". The Japan Times. January 19, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  16. ↑ "ドキュメンタリー新番組に本谷有希子「他人の人生が知りたくてしょうがない」". Stage Natalie (in Japanese). Natalie (website). April 12, 2017. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  17. ↑ "本谷有希子、作詞家の御徒町凧と結婚 両氏ブログで報告". Oricon News (in Japanese). May 9, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  18. ↑ "人気劇作家の本谷有希子さんが１０月に第１子女児出産「私そっくりだ」". Hochi Entertainment (in Japanese). Sports Hochi. January 1, 2016. Archived from the original on January 3, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  19. ↑ "受賞作一覧" (in Japanese). Hakusuisha. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  20. ↑ "三島由紀夫賞　過去の受賞作品" (in Japanese). Shinchosha. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  21. ↑ "芥川賞受賞者一覧" (in Japanese). 日本文学振興会. January 1, 2018. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  22. ↑ Motoya, Yukiko (August 1, 2012). "That Morning, When It". Words Without Borders. Translated by Staley, Michael. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  23. ↑ Motoya, Yukiko (April 24, 2014). "The Dogs". Granta. Translated by Yoneda, Asa. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  24. ↑ Motoya, Yukiko (October 6, 2014). "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing". Granta. Translated by Yoneda, Asa. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  25. ↑ Motoya, Yukiko (November 1, 2014). "What I Felt by Exposing My Body". Wochi Kochi Magazine. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  26. ↑ Motoya, Yukiko (October 29, 2015). "The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys". Translated by Yoneda, Asa. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
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