Kei Nakazawa

Kei Nakazawa (中沢 けい, Nakazawa Kei, born 1959) is the professional name of Emiko Honda (本田 恵美子, Honda Emiko), a Japanese writer and professor.[1] Nakazawa has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers and the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and two of her novels have been adapted for film. Since 2005 she has been a professor of literature at Hosei University.

Kei Nakazawa
中沢 けい
Born
本田 恵美子

1959 (age 61–62)
Yokohama, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materMeiji University
OccupationProfessor, novelist, essayist
EmployerHosei University
Notable work
  • Umi o kanjiru toki
  • Suiheisenjō nite
  • Gakutai no usagi
TitleProfessor of Literature
Awards
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life and education

Nakazawa was born in Yokohama in 1959.[2] Her family later moved to Tateyama, Chiba, where Nakazawa's father died in 1970.[3] At the age of 18 Nakazawa wrote Umi o kanjiru toki (海を感じる時, When I Sense the Sea), a sexually explicit story about a high school girl whose unrequited love for a male classmate leads to conflict with her mother.[4] Umi o kanjiru toki won the 1978 Gunzo Prize for New Writers and sold over 600,000 copies in Japan.[5] Nakazawa attended Meiji University, and married her husband while still a student.[2]

Career

Nakazawa followed Umi o kanjiru toki with the novel Onna tomodachi (女ともだち, Female Friends) and the short story collection Nobudō o tsumu (野ぶどうを摘む, Picking a Wild Grape). In 1985, when Nakazawa was 25 years old, her mother died at the age of 40.[3] That same year, Nakazawa published Suiheisenjō nite (水平線上にて, On the Horizon), which won the 7th Noma Literary New Face Prize.[6] After she won the award, her marriage ended in divorce.[2] In subsequent years Nakazawa wrote several more books, including the 1999 novel Mamebatake no hiru (豆畑の昼, Midday in the Peanut Field), about childhood sweethearts who have a love affair despite being involved with other people, and the 2000 novel Gakutai no usagi (楽隊のうさぎ, Band Rabbits), a story about junior high school students in a brass band.[5][7]

Since 2005 Nakazawa has been a professor of literature at Hosei University.[8] In 2007 Nakazawa was the subject of one volume of Kanae Shobō's Contemporary Women Writer Readers series of books, each of which compiles selections from an author's works, an annotated bibliography, and critical essays from other authors.[9][10] In 2013 a film adaptation of her novel Gakutai no usagi, starring Masaru Miyazaki and directed by Takuji Suzuki, premiered at the 26th Tokyo International Film Festival.[11][7] A film adaptation of her novel Umi o kanjiru toki, directed by Hiroshi Ando and starring Yui Ichikawa, and based on a decades-old Haruhiko Arai script that Nakazawa originally refused to allow to be filmed, was released in 2014.[12] Umi o kanjiru toki held its international premiere at the 2015 Rotterdam Film Festival under the English title Undulant Fever.[13]

In addition to her fiction writing, Nakazawa is an essayist who regularly writes opinion columns on current events for Asahi Shimbun.[14] In 2015 she published the nonfiction book Anti-Hate / Dialogue (アンチヘイト・ダイアローグ), a series of conversations with professionals from different fields about the rise of hate speech.[15]

Recognition

Bibliography
  • Umi o kanjiru toki (海を感じる時, When I Sense the Sea), Kodansha, 1978, ISBN 9784061139688
  • Onna tomodachi (女ともだち, Female Friends), Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1981, ISBN 9784309000572
  • Nobudō o tsumu (野ぶどうを摘む, Picking a Wild Grape), Kodansha, 1981, OCLC 41897350
  • Suiheisenjō nite (水平線上にて, On the horizon), Kodansha, 1985, ISBN 9784062019354
  • Mamebatake no hiru (豆畑の昼, Midday in the Peanut Field), Kodansha, 1999, ISBN 9784062096591
  • Gakutai no usagi (楽隊のうさぎ, Band Rabbits), Shinchosha, 2000, ISBN 9784104377015
  • Anti-Hate / Dialogue (アンチヘイト・ダイアローグ), Jinbun Shoin, 2015, ISBN 9784409241066

Film adaptations
  • Gakutai no usagi, 2013[17]
  • Umi o kanjiru toki (Undulant Fever), 2014[18]

References
  1. 讀賣年鑑 [Yomiuri Almanac]. Yomiuri Shimbun. 2005. p. 356. ISBN 9784643050011.
  2. Shibata Schierbeck, Sachiko; Edelstein, Marlene R. (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 9788772892689.
  3. "中沢けいさん　父母の語り、鮮明な記憶". Nikkei Style (in Japanese). May 5, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  4. "中沢けいの青春文学『海を感じる時』映画化、多感な少女期の性体験や母との対立描く". Cinra.net (in Japanese). March 27, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  5. "Contemporary Japanese Writers: Kei Nakazawa". Books from Japan. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  6. "野間文芸新人賞 過去受賞作" [Noma Literary New Face Prize Past Winning Works] (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  7. 磯部, 正和 (October 20, 2013). "鈴木卓爾監督、人気小説を映画化した『楽隊のうさぎ』に込めた思いを語る！". Cinema Today (in Japanese). Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  8. "文学部 教授　中沢 けい" (in Japanese). Hosei University. June 13, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  9. Yonaha, Keiko (2007). 中沢けい [Nakazawa Kei]. Contemporary Women Writer Readers. 10. Kanae Shobō. ISBN 9784907846411.
  10. Tierney, Robin Leah (2010). Japanese Literature as World Literature: Visceral Engagement in the Writings of Tawada Yoko and Shono Yoriko (Ph.D.). The University of Iowa. p. 27. OCLC 669989275.
  11. "注目映画紹介：「楽隊のうさぎ」". MANTAN Web (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. December 16, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  12. 吉田, 大助 (September 7, 2014). "市川由衣、池松壮亮、この2人以外では実現できなかった─映画『海を感じる時』は役者を見よ". Da Vinci News (in Japanese). Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  13. Vijn, Ard (February 18, 2015). "Rotterdam 2015 Review: UNDULANT FEVER Is Not Fifty Shades Of Pink". Screen Anarchy. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  14. "中沢けい". Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). September 28, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  15. 松岡, 瑛理 (October 22, 2015). "アンチヘイト・ダイアローグ　中沢けい著". AERAdot (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  16. "群像新人文学賞当選作" [Gunzo Prize for New Writers Winning Works] (PDF). Gunzo (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  17. 壬生, 智裕 (December 14, 2013). "作家・中沢けい、初の映画化作品『楽隊のうさぎ』にしみじみ　仕上がりに太鼓判". Cinema Today (in Japanese). Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  18. "Film: Undulant Fever". Japan Society. July 18, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
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