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Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
About Kyoko Hayashi
- Kyoko Hayashi (? ??, Hayashi Kyoko, August 28, 1930 – February 19, 2017) was a Japanese author.Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931-1945 with her family in Shanghai.
- She returned to Nagasaki in March 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory.
- She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb blast destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
- Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health.
- She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, but left before graduation.
- She started to write in 1962.In 1967, her story "Procession on a Cloudy Day" (Kumoribi no koshin) was published in Bungei Shuto.
- She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, "Ritual of Death" (Matsuri no ba), which received that year's Akutagawa Prize.
- "Two Grave Markers" (Futari No Bohyo), also based on her experiences in the bombing, was published that same year.
- Her works in the 1970s also include a collection of twelve short stories titled Gyaman bi-doro (Cut glass, blown glass), containing "The Empty Can" (Aki kan) and "Yellow Sand" (Kousa), both first published in 1978.In 1980, Hayashi published her first full-length novel, Naki ga gotoki (As if nothing had happened), with a semi-autobiographical lead character.
- The Nagasaki theme continued through the 1980s with her collections Sangai no ie (Home in the three worlds), which won the Kawabata Prize, and Michi (The Path).
- Her work Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae won the 1990 Tanizaki Prize.
- Hayashi lived near Washington, D.C.
- from 1985-88.
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