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Kyoko Nakajima (中島 京子, Nakajima Kyōko, born March 23, 1964) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Naoki Prize, Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, Shibata Renzaburo Prize, Kawai Hayao Story Prize, and Chuo Koron Literary Prize, and her work has been adapted for film.
The Little House by Kyoko Nakajima is an understated gem. Taki, a Japanese maid working in Tokyo, writes a journal of her life leading up to World War II. She's a loyal worker to a married couple and helps them raise their son.
Kyoko Nakajima's 'The Little House' is the story of how generations in Japan talk — or don't talk — to each other, and their inability to connect across eras.
Gathered from author Kyoko Nakajima’s published work, the stories assembled here speak about loss—of a loved one, of a place, of a culture—and what comes next. One of the collection’s stand-out stories is also one of its quietest.
Kyoko Nakajima's latest collection of translated short stories explores the ties connecting Japan's past to its present. Ghosts are involved in more ways than one.
Nakajima ( 中島 京子) is an award-winning essayist and novelist from Japan. She studied at the Tokyo Woman's Christian University. Her many prizes include: the Naoki Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. And her story Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House), was adapted for cinema in 2014. ...more.
Contemporary Japanese writer Kyoko Nakajima is perhaps best known for her award-winning novel Chiisai Ouchi. The book won Japan’s prestigious Naoki Prize for Literature in 2010, and was then turned into a well-received movie of the same name by veteran director Yoji Yamada in 2014.
