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I do not know enough about Banana's life and so I do not feel qualified to summarize what I have
discovered about her. Plus, some of the information out there is a bit confusing and
contradictory. So instead, I will copy whatever information I have found so far here and let the
reader decide what Banana Yoshimoto is like. There are other sites which report this information
better than I so please visit my links page. If you have any additions,
corrections, ideas or suggestions for this page, please let me know.
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Born July 24th, 1964 in Tokyo.Blood type: A.
Graduated from Nihon University, Division of arts, majored in literature.
With her first work, "Kitchen" she won the 6th Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize in November, 1987
and then the 16th Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize in January, 1988.
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Big in Japan
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Yoshimoto Mahoko was born on July 24 1964, and is the daughter of Yoshimoto Takaaki, aka Ryumei,
probably the most famous and influential Japanese philosopher and critic to emerge out of the
1960s New Left. (Ryumei's notoriety of late has mostly been due to his nearly drowning a couple
of times in the last few years). In addition to having a famous father, Mahoko's sister, the
cartoonist Haruno Yoiko, is also a public figure. Mahoko grew up in a leftist, liberal family
with significantly more freedom than the typical Japanese teenager and, while she was still in
high school, she moved in with her boyfriend. After graduating from the literature department
of Nihon University's Art College, Mahoko took the deliberately androgynous pseudonym "Banana"
and began to write seriously.
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JAPAN Banana Yoshimoto
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Yoshimoto Banana
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| Date of Birth: |
July, 24th 1964 |
| Original name: |
Yoshimoto Maiko |
| Place of Birth: |
Tokyo |
| References: |
Fukutake shoten "Kitchen" |
| Reported by: |
Inagaki Akiko |
| Data verified by: |
Gotou Yuki |
| Date of Report: |
November 1995 |
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Rebel Writer
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Many words have been applied to Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto. Conventional is not one of
them. For a start, there's the name. She says she chose it because it was cute. [...] The
novelist is the daughter of Yoshimoto Ryumei, an intellectual who had a major impact on the
radical student movement of the late 1960s. Radicalism lives on in her books, many of which
have been widely translated. The English version of one of her latest, Lizard, is dedicated to
the memory of the late American anti-hero rocker, Kurt Cobain. Many critics who were ecstatic
about her earlier works didn't like this one. Yoshimoto isn't worried. She says she's changing
themes, anyway. Now she's more interested in the occult and black humor. At the end of it all,
she hopes, will be a Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Fruits of Her Labor
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In 1987, Yoshimoto Mahoko was a waitress at a golf-club restaurant, earning around $480 a month
and stealing moments out of her day to write a novel at coffee-shop tables. The result was
Kitchen, a 1988 phenomenon that eventually sold millions around the world. With a change of
name to Banana Yoshimoto -- because it was "cute" -- a literary star was born.
Yoshimoto is the daughter of Yoshimoto Ryumei, a poet and influential commentator whose works
became a bible for Japan's radical youth movement in the 1960s. Banana attended Tokyo's Nihon
University, where she studied creative writing and won a faculty award for her 1987 graduation
novel, Moonlight Shadow.
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Fruits of Her Labor
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